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[McComb, Billy] New Generation Card Fountain. Boston: Victor and Marcelo Contento, 1993. Battery-operated apparatus shoots cards four feet into the air from a top hat. The first unit manufactured, made expressly for McComb, and bearing a gift plaque on the side stamped with McCombs name, date of manufacture, and serial number. In a drawstring carrying bag. Sold with a letter of provenance from Victor Contento, a framed contemporary advertisement for the apparatus, and a copy of Magic (May 2001) on which McComb is featured on the cover with the apparatus.


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Date:
2016-08-27

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