Upcoming Auction
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Vintage Posters
Highlights from our spring vintage poster sale include rare and classic designs by Cappiello, Cassandre, Fix-Masseau, Flagg, Caldanzano, and Hohlwein. The auction will feature our largest offering of World War and war propaganda posters to date, featuring the collection of Plato Foufas. This will be complemented by travel posters, selections of turn of the century and modern advertising, sports, theater, magic, and music.
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19th Century Historical and Military Rarities
Featuring items related to the Napoleonic Era and the U. S. Grant Collection of Bill Margeson
The first session in this auction features military artifacts of the late 18th and early 19th centuries – the period of the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon. An array of items are represented, including uniforms and accouterments, ceramics, snuff boxes and miniature portraits, clocks and barometers, later commemorative items and memorabilia, and a substantial library. Historical characters from Napoleon, Josephine, Marshals Ney, Berthier and Murat to Lord Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington are reflected here. Both the French and British sides are respectively represented within this collection, reflecting the vast breadth of the nations which fought the conflict until its conclusion in 1815 with ultimate defeat of France’s Emperor.
The second session features the Bill Margeson collection of Ulysses S. Grant and the Civil War. This 50-year collection includes hundreds of rare prints, letters and documents, ephemera, and books.
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Magicana: Featuring the Collection of Peter Hackhofer
This sale will highlight selected material from the collection of the late Peter Hackhofer. Built up over several decades as a dealer and seeker of the unusual, his holdings included an extensive library, unusual stone lithographs from the great illusion shows of yesteryear, and art of all types with a magic theme. An archive of material from the career of Max Auzinger, the Black Art magician, will also be featured. The Hackhofer collection will be complemented by an array of vintage posters, apparatus, and ephemera from the golden age of magic and beyond.