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Auction History Result 2s222 BIRCH AMERICA'S MASTER MAGICIAN linen 14x42 magic show poster '30s + enchanting Mystery Miss! Date Sold 6/12/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked Magic Show Poster (measures 14 1/4" x 42") (Learn More) Birch America's Master Magician and Assisting Artists, the circa 1930s magic show poster used to advertise Birch, Master Magician ("Mabel Sperry Enchanting 'Mystery Miss'"; "Baggage truck 42-feet long carrying 7-tons of stage equipment for the spectacular production!"; "Birch: Master magician and company") featuring great images of Birch holding a mechanical human head and Mabel Sperry in a huge hat! Note that the poster was printed by the "Central Show Prtg. Co., Inc., Mason City, IA.". Our brief research of this poster indicates that the Birch on this poster was "MacDonald Birch" (perhaps "McDonald Birch"), and that he was a midwestern magician who performed throughout the midwest, and advertised that he had performed before the crowned heads of Europe (but that might have just been hype!). Apparently, his prime years were in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and this poster would seem to date from that time. If anyone knows more about this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had creases and scuffs on the foldlines and many creases and scuffs scattered throughout. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer linenbacked the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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