magic – Auction Finds

June 15, 2011

I look good on TV

How could I resist the questions, which obviously were playing to my vanity? “Are you photogenic?” “What would you look like on television?” As soon as I read the words on the small cardboard box I knew…

April 30, 2010

sherry

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Female, black magicians: Still a rarity

Posted in Performers

After auction this week, I was going through a tray of small items and came across what innocently looked like a No. 2 pencil. Yellow with narrow red bands, unsharpened and inscribed. A gold…

January 21, 2010

sherry

It’s magic!

Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents

I don’t know much about magic, but with a free ticket in hand, I went to a Lance Burton show in Las Vegas one summer. It was entertaining, so much so that I bought one…

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