Martinka & Co. Martinka Magic Calculating Calendar. New York, 1900. Die-cut “calculating” calendar determines the day of the week each date will fall on for “4000 years” by rotating a wheel and reading a chart printed on the verso. Overprinted with the address of the famed magic manufacturer. Uncommon.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-10-31
Martinka/Hornmann Magic Co. direction and vendor scrapbook. Compiled by T. Francis Fritz (Frank Ducrot during his tenures as editor of Mahatma and as proprietor of Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2010-05-16
[Magic Dealers] Intriguing archive of approximately 100 pieces of magic dealers'correspondence. Most on elaborate letterheads and containing correspondence from and signatures of significant figures in Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2009-04-26
[Martinka & Co.] Illustrated and Descriptive Catalog of New and Superior Conjuring Wonders. New York: Martinka & Co., 1896. Pictorial mustard-colored wraps. Profusely illustrated. 8vo. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-04-06
[Martinka] Photograph of Francis Martinka, Dunninger, Dr. Wilson and Dr. Ellison. [New York], ca. 1910. Striking full-length photograph of four prominent magicians standing outside the Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-12-05
[Martinka] Martinka’s Shower of Gold tokens. American, ca. 1910. Tokens sold by Martinka & Co. as part of the Shower of Gold trick, in which Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-02-08
Coin Pail. Martinka & Co. [?], ca. 1880s. Early toleware pail painted with silver star shapes, specially prepared for the magician to drop inside a Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-10-29
[Martinka] Two Martinka & Co. Catalogues. New York, 1898 and 1910. Publisher’s pictorial wraps. Later volume bound in black buckram. Illustrated with woodcuts. 4tos. Earlier Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-02-07
Evans, Henry Ridgley. The Old & The New Magic. Chicago: Open Court, 1909. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Red cloth stamped in gold and black. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-10-27
[Scrapbook] Oversized scrapbook of vintage magic ephemera. Collection of clippings, artwork, throw-out cards (including several unusual examples for The Great Gilman, T. Roy Barnes and Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-05-13
Martinka & Co. Illustrated and Descriptive Catalog of New and Superior Conjuring Wonders. New York: Martinka & Co., ca. 1910. Pictorial blue wraps. Profusely illustrated. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-04-04
