Magic Collection (page 16)

The Magic Apples

Illustrations for Beauty and the Beast

Houdin and Bottle
The inexhaustible bottle which just goes on pouring and pouring... Date: 1840s

Poe / Descent / Maelstrom
A DESCENT INTO MAELSTROM " The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magic, ...Upon the interior surface of a funnel." Date: First published: 1841

Sign for Health
A magical sign which will infallibly ensure your good health if you use it properly Date: 1908

NFS (London Region) amateur variety show, WW2
Firemen and firewomen put on variety shows for their friends and colleagues at their sub-station (55V) in Forest Hill Central School, Brockley. London SE4

Lyman H. Howes high class moving pictures - new magic pictures. Print shows people watching motion picture in theater, includes insert of head-and-shoulders portrait of Lyman H. Howe

Lyman H. Howes new marvels in moving pictures. Print shows people watching a motion picture in a theater of an infantry attack during the Spanish-American War; includes insert of head-and-shoulders

The magic hat. Illustration shows, at center, Samuel Gompers standing on a platform, pointing to a sign with a whip labeled Expulsion

Tricks with Cards book cover
Front cover of Tricks with Cards by Professor Hoffmann featuring a lady taking a card from a conjuror mid-trick while an interested audience looks on. Date: c.1927

Do spirits return? Houdini says no - and proves it 3 shows in one : magic, illusions, escapes, fraud mediums exposed. Date ca. 1909

Home again in the big tent theatre the triumphant American tour of the supreme master of magic - George.... Date 19 - ?

The last of the magicians, Powell dean of American magicians : the master mind of modern magic : the acme of perfect manipulation, a revelation in human dexterity : the magic of a lifetime

Zan Zig performing in four magic vignettes. Date c1899

Wedding of Noel Maskelyne, magician
Noel Maskelyne (1902 - 1973), magician, pictured with his bride, Miss Isabel Jenkinson after their wedding at All Souls, Langham Place, London

Two mythological Buddhist or Hindu figures, one holding a captive and showing him an image in a magic mirror of a man falling off a boat during a fight. Date 1878?

Siegfried and the magic fire. Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt as Siegfried standing at the edge of a ring of fire around a female figure (Brunnhilde)

Wilting Rose
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Revolving Bow Tie
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Card tricks
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Performing Fly
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Chinese Chopper
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Snake Box
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Squirt-A-Flower
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Witch and goblins by Reverend Baden Powell
A delightful and typically Victorian sketch of a witch and her goblin friends, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell

Copper to Gold
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Dolls Dinner
Two dolls enjoying dinner together. Date: circa 1900

The Knot That is Not
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Coin Switch Case
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Atomic Cigar
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Simple Change Frame
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Tipsee Wine Glass
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

The Musical Seat
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

3-D Tie
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Snakes From a Flower Vase
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Find the Lady
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Trace the Ace
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

Baffo Box
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

A witch sits by her cauldron surrounded by wildlife: a raven sit on top of her armchair, an owl perches in the beams, a tortoise and fish (presumably alive no more) dangle from the ceiling

Silhouettes of traditional Christmas scenes in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, cut by H. L. Oakley with his magic scissors

Programme for Magic Nights at the Trocadero
Programme cover for Charles B. Cochrans Magic Nights at the Trocadero Grill Room, London from November 1932 1932

Disappearing Milk Trick
Magic at Maskelynes : Magician Mr. Edward Victor, assisted by the lovely Miss Eileen O Connor, demonstrated the amazing Disappearing Milk trick! Date: 1930s

Engraved Board
The bizarrely engraved board of the Knight of the East and West, illuminated by the " magic lamp". Date: 1890s

A fairy went a-marketing -- a fairy and a peacock, flying side by side. 1922

Title page of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, 1808
Title page of Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, 1808. Date: 1808

Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun (Have You Watched the Fairies). 1920s

Do you ever hear the fairies? You can hear them if you will, singing little songs of dream, when all the house is still. 20th century

From Aladdin by Katharine Cameron. Cameron was a Glasgow born illustrator and an associate of Jessie M King and the Mackintoshes. 1904

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