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Auction History Result 2f075 ASK ALEXANDER linen Indian magic show poster '15 wonderful stone litho art of the magician! Date Sold 9/3/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked Indian Magic Show Poster (measures 27 1/2" x 41 1/2" [70 x 105 cm]) (Learn More) Ask Alexander, the circa 1915 Indian magic show poster used to advertise Alexander the Magician ("Ask Alexander"). Alexander (his birth name was Claude Alexander Conlin) was a famous magician of the 1910s and 1920s, and he had a fascinating, if seedy, private life, having married 11 times, and being a professional con man as a sideline to his magic business! Note that this poster is undated, but it is absolutely an original vintage poster. The only small writing at the bottom of the poster says "AV YAGA BOMBAY", indicating it was printed for Alexander's tour of India, which apparently occurred around 1915. Note that this image has been sold as a reproduction countless times in countless sizes, but this is absolutely one of the original posters from which the reproductions were taken! 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: very good. The poster was never folded. It had some tiny bits of paper loss in the upper left black background area and a very few scattered in the other black background areas, with some faint scuffs scattered in all the black areas. There were some tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss in the borders. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well. It was in a frame, and someone used double stick tape to attach the linen to the back of a mat, but that tape was solely in the excess linen, and not of course, on the actual poster. When the tape was removed, it caused some surface paper loss in the rice paper over the excess linen, but had no effect on the poster (see our image). Learn More about condition grades 
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