The Magic Collection of David Baldwin II

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Dates
Sat
Jun 16
10am to 5pm
2018

Terms

We accept cash, check, money order, and credit cards, the latter with a 2.5% service fee. All sales are subject to a 20% buyer's premium. If you cannot attend in person, we are happy to accept phone and absentee bids. Bid online at Liveauctioneers.com. While we can and will ship items to you, we prefer all items purchased at the auction are removed on the day of the sale by the purchasers.

The second offering from David Baldwin's collection features automatons, magic apparatus (both vintage and modern), ephemera, Houdiniana, stone lithographs, broadsides, and mystery clocks.

Selections from the famed Raymond/Gibson collection, including personal property of Maurice "The Great" Raymond, will go on the block. Choice examples of props manufactured by Okito, Thayer, Klingl, Willmann, Williams, Beadle, and others, will all be highlights of the sale.

Catalogs ship approximately three weeks prior to the auction. Previews take place in our Chicago gallery June 13-15, from 10:00am to 5:00pm.

After Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin. Glass Column Mystery Clock. Estimated between 8,000/12,000Haunted Cabinet and Discs of Quong Hi. Estimated between 2,500/3,500Group of Taytelbaum Paddle Tricks. Estimated between 300/400Geisha Girl Automaton. Estimated between 800/1,200Great Raymond Handcuff Photo and Escape Handbill. Estimated between 500/700Sale PictureHoudini Orpheum Theatre Packing Case Escape Challenge Handbill. Estimated between 500/700Conjuring, Or Magic Made Easy. Estimated between 100/150

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