Magic Collection (#9)

Unidentified fairy story

Tales from Many Lands: The Magic Army

The Story of Snow-White

The sleeping court. Source unknown

Princess Marigold: The Magic Paint. From Treasure no. 224 (29 April 1967)

The Dolly Girls

The Magic Mirror. From Once Upon a Time no. 119 (22 May 1971)

Stellas Magic Carpet. From Once Upon a Time no. 66 (16 May 1970)

The Tinder Box. From Once Upon a Time (1970)

Tales from Many Lands: The Magic Goldfish. From Treasure no. 257 (16 December 1967)

Girls with fairy

Overgrown castle

Magic Horse

The Magic Whistle

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

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

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

Shes sitting on a dragonfly all shining green and gold (Vision). 1920s

And very softly hasten down and out beyond the sleeping town to find my fairy lake (The Island). 1922

Elegant fairy asleep on a mushroom
An elegant fairy asleep on a mushroom. circa 1922

When I went to Fairyland, visiting the Queen, I rode upon a peacock, blue and gold and green (The Visit). 1922

Fairy flannel is the skin of peaches (Useful Hints). 1922

And there they sat and sang all night, I heard them singing in my sleep (Visitors). 1922

We anchored by the moon (A Voyage). 1922

Cinderella and Fairy Godmother
Cinderella, sitting by the fireside, is visited by her Fairy Godmother. 20th century

The fairies will have gathered in the forest very soon (Fairy Song). 1920s

The Flying Trunk -- a story by Hans Christian Andersen, in which a young man flies to Turkey in a trunk and visits the Sultans daughter. 20th century

Over the field the fairies went, singing and dancing and well content (The Hayfield). 1920s

Fairy on a branch
A fairy on a branch. 1920s

Black Magic Marks
A paranormal investigator discovers Black Magic chalk marks on a grave cross, following a Black Magic raid on a country church at Alfriston, Sussex, England. Date: 1960s

BLACK MASS
Celebrating the Black Mass, according to Ezekiel, and according to the French magician Vintras

Witch Brews Storm
A witch of the Catskills, in New York State, brews up a storm whenever she is displeased

Letter to Mother

Ancient Egyptian Galley
A sailing galley, protected from its enemies not only by the courage of her crew but also by the magic eye of Horus and a figurehead representing Anubis. Date: BC

Forging of Notung
Act one : taught by Mime, Siegfried forges Notung the magic sword

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