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Auction History Result 6h0507 CARTER THE GREAT linen 25x39 magic poster 1926 cool art of The Sphinx & devils, ultra rare! Date Sold 4/14/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked Magic Show Poster (measures 25" x 39" [64 x 99 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 previously auctioned several styles of Carter The Great magic posters, but we have NEVER before auctioned THIS style! Note that Carter, like other magicians of his time, had many posters printed at once, due to the economics of full-color printing (it did not cost much more to print thousands of posters as it did to print dozens of them!). So he would have a large supply of each poster, and then they would have been used over a period of years (which is also why you rarely see full-color magic posters with play dates or specific information on them, specifically so they COULD be used in many different places over a long time). This makes it very difficult to date them. We have seen this poster dated as 1926 and as 1936, but fortunately, because we have a massive database of litho numbers taken directly from posters, we were able to determine that the litho number from this poster (combined with the printing company) is from 1926 exactly! If anyone knows more about this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny bits of paper loss on parts of the folds and in the lower left of the second "R" of "CARTER" in the title. It had two 4" tears in the top border and one extended into the top of the first "R" of "CARTER", and the other extended into the top of the "E". There were some pinholes and small tears in the rest of the borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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