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Thurston, Howard. Thurston the Great Magician. Balaam and his Donkey. Cincinnati, Strobridge Litho., ca. 1910. Eight-sheet (74 x 107”) color lithographed billboard advertising a transposition illusion from Thurston’s show which included a boy, girl, and donkey vanishing and reappearing in several parts of the theater. Minor restoration and over-coloring. A-. Fewer than six examples known.


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Date:
2013-02-02

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