Sold for:
$1,700
$1,700
[P&L] P&L “Deluxe” Magic Set. New Haven: Petrie & Lewis (P&L), ca. 1939. Large and elaborate magic set includes many P&L products, among them the Passe Passe Bottles, Card Box, glass Hindu Jug, Bran Glass, Rice Bowls, Coin in Ball of Wool, and many others. Case 23 x 16 ½”. With instructions (two booklets, one loose set), and vintage 8 x 10” photograph of a similar P&L set. An example of one of the largest and most expensive magic sets produced by Petrie & Lewis, sold by the firm’s magician-demonstrators at Abercrombie & Fitch in Manhattan in the 1930s.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
