Vintage Magic Lithographs In My Collection

[Professor Plum]

 

[vitanola]

Wow![b/b]

Will you look at that!

What a nice collection. I didn't know that anyone else remembered Alexander.

 

[Professor Plum]

Wow!

Will you look at that!

What a nice collection. I didn't know that anyone else remembered Alexander.

Thank you very much for your kind words.

C.A. Conlin was a real piece of work and one of the most "colorful" performers in magic's Golden Age.

Pick up a copy of, Alexander The Man Who Knows by Charvet and Pomeroy for a most interesting read on the gent.

Here's another personal favorite from a magician everyone will recognize:

 

[Doctor Strange]

That one's up in my kitchen right now!

I also have a huge-format book of vintage magic posters. And I have grabbed .jpg files of many of the ones shown here from various web sources over the years. Man, I love those old magic posters!

I was a magician myself during my teen years, back in the 70s. I still have all my apparatus, and I occasionally practice my sleights. And I recall all kinds of magic trivia... like how Chung Ling Soo wasn't Chinese!

 

[Professor Plum]

That one's up in my kitchen right now!

I also have a huge-format book of vintage magic posters. And I have grabbed .jpg files of many of the ones shown here from various web sources over the years. Man, I love those old magic posters!

I was a magician myself during my teen years, back in the 70s. I still have all my apparatus, and I occasionally practice my sleights. And I recall all kinds of magic trivia... like how Chung Ling Soo wasn't Chinese!

Nice to meet you, Doc!

100 Years of Magic Posters by Charles and Regina Reynolds.
Several of the posters shown in that book are from my collection.

Below is a variation of the one on the front cover by the same lithographer that I purchased from Christian Fechner.

You remember correctly.
Chung Ling Soo was an American named William Ellsworth Robinson.
He was killed on the London stage in 1918 performing the bullet catch trick.
It didn't work...

 

[Doctor Strange]

Yup, that's the book. I think my sister found it sitting on a shelf when she was a NYC publishing exec back in the 80s/90s and grabbed it for me.

And that bullet-catch, that's a toughie. Though the great Robert-Houdin stopped a war with it.

 

[Professor Plum]

Yup, that's the book. I think my sister found it sitting on a shelf when she was a NYC publishing exec back in the 80s/90s and grabbed it for me.

And that bullet-catch, that's a toughie. Though the great Robert-Houdin stopped a war with it.

Robert-Houdin also impressed those unhappy Algerian Arabs with his performance of the light-heavy box.

There is a good book on the bullet catch trick called Twelve Have Died Bullet Catching - The Story & Secrets by Ben Robinson.
It's a bit difficult to find, but if you come across a copy, it's an absorbing read.

Houdini was adding the trick to his act, but Robinson's death while performing it spooked him so bad, he round filed it.