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Cardini’s Festival of Magic contract. Full executed standard AFTRA contract for Cardini’s appearance on the Festival of Magic program, signed by Cardini and producer Saul P. Pryor. Cardini and Swan were paid $2500 to appear on the program. With cover letter and original mailing envelope. Three 4to sheets.


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Date:
2013-04-06

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16mm film of Cardini on NBC’s Festival of Magic. Single reel of film containing the performance of Cardini – his only known American television appearance Read more…


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Cardini’s Star of Magic plaque. Cast bronze mounted to wood. Text states, “The Star of Magic award from New York Ring No. 26 International Brotherhood Read more…


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Archive of Festival of Magic ephemera. Including six 8 x 10” photographs backstage and on the set (several by Irving Desfor, some with the other Read more…


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Wombwell, England: Taylors Printers, 1951. Two-color half sheet advertising the 1951 Festival of Magic. Headlining the performance is George Murray; other acts include Vic Leonard Read more…


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Swan Cardini’s bellhop costume. Navy blue and grey bellhop costume with golden buttons and gold braid epaulets, pleated pants, suspenders, and one white cotton glove Read more…


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Hugard, Jean. Cardini’s unpublished card magic manuscript. [New York, ca. 1930]. Being an 89-page typed manuscript describing card magic effects, flourishes, and sleight-of-hand techniques of Read more…


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Cardini’s New Haven Magic Society Proclamation. Connecticut, Paul Noffke, 1958. Hand-illuminated proclamation issued to Cardini by the New Haven Magical Society at its annual convention, Read more…


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Cardini’s Academy of the Art of Magic medallion. New York, 1936. Bronze token 1 1/8” in diameter. The obverse bears the raised logo of the Read more…


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[Programs] Collection of over 100 magic convention and souvenir programs. Including elaborately printed and produced programs for S.A.M. and I.B.M. conventions, The Yankee Gathering (a Read more…


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2010-10-23