Shade, George. Shade the Wonder Worker. N.p., n.d. (ca. 1930). Half-sheet (20 ½ x 28") color lithographed bust portrait of Shade the magician of Shamokin, Pennsylvania, with an owl perched on his shoulder where most other posters would place a devil, and another owl in the distance. Very good condition. Linen backed.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2011-03-26
Shade, George. Shade the Wonder Worker. Chicago: National Printing and Engraving, ca. 1925. Shade stands beside a cabinet decorated with faux Chinese characters and fires Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-06-25
Shade, George. Shade the Wonder Worker. Chicago: National Printing and Engraving, ca. 1925. Shade stands beside a cabinet decorated with faux Chinese characters and fires Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
Stoddard, Charles Warren (1843-1909) Ten Titles, Many Signed First Editions. Summer Cruising in the South Seas , London: Chatto & Windus, 1881; Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-17
Clarence, H.G. A Pleasant Pastime. Darwen: R. & H.T. Timperley, ca. 1880. Attractive four-color letterpress poster heralding the “wonder worker, conjurer, and illusionist” who will Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-06-25
[Dime Museum] G.B. Bunnell’s Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn Eagle, 1882. Letterpress playbill on thin paper, the program commencing with the “wonder worker” Rivello’s “mystifications and transformations,” Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
Houdini, Harry. Scrapbook of Houdiniana and Other Magic Ephemera. Edmund W. Younger [compiler], 1900s. Approximately 36 pages (8vo) in a French grammar book. Including two Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Columbia Theater Program. St. Louis, Jan. 27, 1908. Twenty-page program, Houdini billed as the “Original Jail Breaker and Wonder Worker of Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
Cordova, Dillon & Davenport Combination. Program of Nella Davenport, Col. Cordova, and Jane Dillon. London: J.W. Last, 1875. For the season commencing Feb. 8, 1875, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-08-27
THIS LOT IS BEING SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE gouache on paper laid on board 50.7 x 67 cm (22 1/2 x 26 3/8 in.) signed lower Read more…
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2016-09-17
"SAMUEL YELLIN Electrified wrought-iron torchere with tripod base and pierced floral shade. (From the University of Pittsburgh, authenticated by Samuel Yellin Metalworkers). Unmarked. 67""" Read more…
Auctioneer:
Rago Auctions
Date:
2009-06-13
