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THBVernon, Dai (David Frederick Wingfield Verner). Ticket for ...
Lot 158
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Our June sale of magicana brought an array of ephemera dating to the Victorian era and beyond, features props and memorabilia from the careers of many heroes of magic, includes a wide array of choice and concludes with the third offering vintage and modern magic apparatus from the collection and workshop of Rüdiger Deutsch. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
Our June sale of magicana brought an array of ephemera dating to the Victorian era and beyond, features props and memorabilia from the careers of many heroes of magic, includes a wide array of choice and concludes with the third offering vintage and modern magic apparatus from the collection and workshop of Rüdiger Deutsch. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
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Vernon, Dai (David Frederick Wingfield Verner). Ticket for the Banquet at Which Dai Vernon Fooled Harry Houdini. Chicago, 1922. Letterpress ticket, numbered 414 in red ink, admitting the bearer to the Houdini Night banquet at the Great Northern Hotel in Chicago on Feb. 6, 1922.It was at this banquet that Dai Vernon, still a relative unknown, presented his version of the Ambitious Card to Houdini, who claimed he could discover the secret behind any trick were it shown to him three times. Vernon performed the effect eight times, fooling the master escape artist every time. Houdini was said to have stormed away from the encounter, frustrated and completely baffled. For years after, Vernon was known as ?The Man Who Fooled Houdini.?
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