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Auction History Result 5r0002 CARTER THE GREAT linen 41x78 magic poster 1926 art of The World's Weird Wonderful Wizard, rare! Date Sold 9/3/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked Magic Show Poster (measures 41" x 77 3/4" [104 x 197 cm]) (Learn More) Carter the Great (born Charles Joseph Carter) was a stage magician from the 1890s to 1936. He began his career as a journalist and lawyer, but eventually transitioned to magic. Due to stiff competition from the number of magic acts on the American stages at the time, Carter opted to pursue his career abroad, where he achieved his greatest fame. Among the highlights of Carter's stage performances during his career were the classic "sawing a woman in half" illusion (an elaborate surgical-themed version with "nurses" in attendance), making a live elephant disappear and "cheating the gallows", where a shrouded Carter would vanish, just as he dropped at the end of a hangman's noose. Carter died while on tour in India in 1936, and a highly fictionalized account of his life can be found in the 2001 book Carter Beats the Devil, by Glen David Gold. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this poster, and it sold for $1,225! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good to fine. The poster had tiny paper loss at just a few crossfolds and a very few creases, scuffs, and tiny tears on parts of some folds. Overall, the poster was in very good to fine condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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