Cardini (Richard Valentine Pitchford). Set of Cardini's Gold and Silver Peau Doux Playing Cards. Chicago: Walgreen Co., 1930s. Gold and silver-backed decks of playing cards of the brand favored by Cardini. Boxes stamped "Cardini." One deck sealed with tax stamp, the other opened, near mint.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-10-29
Cardini (Richard Valentine Pitchford). Cardini’s Billiard Balls. Set of eleven turned wooden billiard balls and four shells (two wooden, two metal) owned and used by Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-10-31
Cardini (Richard Valentine Pitchford). Cardini. A Deft Manipulator. [Kenton: The Scioto Sign Co., ca. 1928]. Offset window card bearing a portrait of the “Suave Deceiver” Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-06-25
Cardini (Richard Valentine Pitchford). Cardini the Suave Deceiver. London and Birmingham: James Upton, 1933. Four-color letterpress playbill includes Cardini on a variety bill at the Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-06-25
Cardini (Richard Valentine Pitchford). Rattle Watch. Cardini, 1957. Metal wristwatch with expandable band, incorporating an Ingersoll face, that produces a rattling sound for the magician Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-02-06
Cardini (Richard Valentine Pitchford). Cardini’s Silver Peau Doux Playing Cards. Chicago, Walgreen Co., ca. 1934. Unopened pack of the bridge-size fanning cards purchased by Cardini Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-12-05
Cardini (Richard Valentine Pitchford). Portrait of Cardini, Inscribed and Signed. New York, ca. 1955. Double-exposure half-length portrait of Cardini with cigarettes in his hands. 8 Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-10-31
Cardini (Richard Valentine Pitchford). Cardini Victoria Palace Playbill. England, 1930s. Two-color pictorial letterpress playbill (12 ½ x 20”). Cardini shares the bill with Gracie Fields Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-10-31
Cardini (Richard Valentine Pitchford). Half length portrait photograph, signed and inscribed. Chicago, Maurice Seymour, ca. 1939. 8 x 10". Iconic portrait of a smiling Cardini. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2009-04-26
Cardini (Richard Valentine Pitchford). Four Pieces of Cardini Ephemera. Circa 1940s- 50s. Including an advertising card for the Suave Deceiver's upcoming appearance at Ciro's Club Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-10-29
Cardini (Richard Valentine Pitchford). Tube for Carrying Human Hair. Brass tube painted black with end caps and exterior clip housed in cloth-lined leather case. Apparently Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-10-31
