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Kellar, Harry (Heinrich Keller) | Kellar loses his head

Auction Closed

October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Kellar, Harry (Heinrich Keller)

Kellar in his Latest Mystery Self Decapitation. Cincinnati & New York: Strobridge Lith. Co. 1898 (N.Y. no. 8105)


Color lithograph window card (16 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.; 420 x 294 mm). Some restoration at lower right corner with a few letters of the imprint supplied in facsimile. Matted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas.


A vivid depiction of one of Kellar's most startling effects.


REFERENCE:

Exemplars, p. 41; Illusions 43; Magic, p. 302; TTW 7