Magic Collection Database

These items are part of my private collection, which I maintain for personal tracking and reference as I continue to collect. While they are not actively for sale, I am always open to conversations and inquiries from fellow collectors. I can be contacted at magic@davidscott.info.

Mr. Piffles The Dog Who Knows poster

Signed by Piff who we saw in Las Vegas...

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Carter the Great window card

1920s lithograph poster (window card) Charles Joseph Carter (June 14, 1874 - February 13, 1936) was an American stage magician, also known as Carter the Great....

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Chang and Fak Hong's The Bhuda Poster

Original stone lithograph poster from the early 1920s with a macabre early art deco orientalist style. This is an antique vaudeville theater poster advertising "The Bhuda" (Buddha)...

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Alexander Poster

"Alexander the Magician" was Claude Alexander Conlin (known on stage as "Alexander the Crystal Seer"), a famous 20th-century vaudeville mentalist. This is one of his vintage stone ...

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Karlini Poster

"The Great Karlini" was the stage name of Ludwig Trinka, a Dutch magician born in 1907 who died in 1963. He performed in Berlin before World War II. He is best known today through ...

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English Die Box

imported from UK - English tradition--doors hinged on the bottom, front and rear, hardwood and brass....

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Thayer Silk Cabby

Silk Cabby. Los Angeles: F.G. Thayer, ca. 1940. Wooden cabinet allows for the magical change, production, vanish, or restoration of silk handkerchiefs placed inside. 7" long. Very ...

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Sesame Drawer Box

Sesame Drawer Box. Alhambra: Owen Magic, ca. 1965. Large drawer is shown empty, closed, and when re-opened, is filled to the brim. Sides and rear of box that hold the drawer can be...

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Garcia, Frank. The Encyclopedia of Sponge Ball Magic

Garcia, Frank. The Encyclopedia of Sponge Ball Magic. [New York: Author, 1976]. Red cloth with jacket. Illustrated. 8vo. Very good condition...

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Traveling Block. Los Angeles: F.G. Thayer, ca. 1940

Traveling Block. Los Angeles: F.G. Thayer, ca. 1940. A red block, stacked between a yellow and blue block and covered with a tube, vanishes, only to reappear elsewhere. Faux Asian ...

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