$2,600
[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, Phantom Die (though hat), Boom-E-Rang, Vanishing Wand, Patriotic Rockets, Mora ring trick, and many others. Case 23 x 16 ½”. Several props hallmarked. Most items in near mint condition. This, perhaps the last surviving example of the largest and most expensive magic set produced by Petrie & Lewis, was one of several sold by the firm’s magician-demonstrators at the Abercrombie & Fitch sporting goods store in Manhattan. For several holiday seasons, P&L supplied merchandise and in-store demonstrations of various toys and magic tricks to the storied retailer. In 1939, a 20-year-old Jay Marshall, future Dean of American Magicians, helped manufacture these P&L sets and also demonstrated them at Abercrombie & Fitch. The wooden cases housing these sets were manufactured by the same craftsman who built cases for the P&L Flowering Rosebush apparatus.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-10-31
