COOPER TOMMY: (1921-1984) British Comedian & Magician. Small selection of printed 8vo menus for The Annual Supper of The Magic Circle at the Windsor Castle restaurant in Victoria, London, 27th November 1957 and 26th November 1958 (three identical), three signed to the front cover by Tommy Cooper, one signed by David Nixon and two bearing other signatures by guests at the dinner including Harry Corbett & Sooty, Horace King etc. Some light age wear and central folds to each of the menus, G, 4
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A piece of the original fabric off the Graf Zeppelin LZ-127 given to Clara Adams, (see note). A small square section of silver coloured fabric measuring 12cmx10cm with the wording `Original fabric of the envelope (covering of the hull) of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin. This was on the round-the-world flight 1929 Clara Adams`. Together with a souvenir brooch of the Zeppelin on an enamelled globe. Brooch 35mm. A unique item. GC illustrated on Plate 12. Note: Clara Adams is little known today, but in her day she was known as one of the pioneers of commercial aviation from the 1920`s-40`s. The Lady was known as a `First Flighter` as she was aboard the first flights of the Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg. She was also on the first flights of the Clipper Boats run by Pan-Am thus becoming well known within the aviation world. Widowed at a young age of 29 and having been married to a much older wealthy company President George L. Adams of The American Leather Tanning Co, she was left a very wealthy lady, who then indulged herself into her favourite passion, flying. She began her long association with Zeppelins in 1924 with a letter of introduction to Hugo Eckener from Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, to whom she was related. (Clara Adams was born Clara Grabau, on December 3, 1884, to a German family living in Cincinnati, Ohio; her grandmother was Augusta von Hindenburg, a cousin of the German general and future president.) Her letter of introduction to Eckener ‘opened the magic doors of the Zeppelin realm,’ as she described it, and Eckener invited her to fly on one of the test flights of the LZ-126/ZR-III, which had been built for the Americans as war reparations and would become the United States Navy airship USS Los Angeles.
*Lantern Slides. A group of over 200 lantern slides, the majority diapositive topographical views, military interest, etc., plus three boxes of handpainted magic lantern slides, plus a small box of approx. twenty glass plate negatives of South American interest including ethnographic interest, and a small group of small format gelatin silver prints of Canada (a carton)
*Magic Lantern slides. A group of approx. 120 hand-painted magic lantern slides, late 19th c., including three slipper slides and a box of twelve panoramic slides (each approx. 36 cm), together with a box of approx. eighty miscellaneous stereocards, a bygone tin magic lantern (lacking chimney) and a distressed table-top stereo viewer, plus an assorted group of approx. 200 diapositive lantern slides, 20th c., including natural history subjects and thirty-two slides of the Council of Industrial Design, the lantern slides contained in four slide boxes (2 cartons)
Magic Interest. A boxed Harrods deluxe cabinet of magic with various tricks and cards and joke items, the Rupert Howard School easy magic lesson 1 booklet, card and conjuring tricks by Charles Robert and Charles Grayford, The Fifty Best Conjuring Tricks by Charles T Grayford, Professor Hoffmann`s Card Tricks, modern card manipulation by C Lang Neal and Conjuring with Cards Practical Thesis Professor Elis Stanyon.
Three boxes containing a large collection of vintage tin plate and other toys, to include a tin plate locomotive, clockwork camouflaged tank, `Radiation Gas Cooker" money box, Corgi Comics Noddy`s Car, Corgi Magic Roundabout figure, toy gun, catapult, "Navigable" pond yacht, Rupert Bear figure, wooden pull along horse, painted sailing boat, doll`s chairs, collector`s books, etc
Large quantity of Magic Lantern equipment to include a `Helioscope` by Walter Tyler of London, (converted to electric) one other similar lantern, approximately 750 static glass slides, (mainly topographical or cartoons, some in sets) also several mahogany mounted slides and approximately 15 moving slides two with kaleidoscope patterns.
Ephemera - Hobbies Handbooks, 1954 & 1964; a Hamblings model railway catalogue, 1937; a Gamagic [Gamages magic] catalogue, circa 1910 (poor); a booklet, Aunt Kate`s Conjuring & Parlour Magic, Leng, London no date [circa 1910]; a booklet, The People`s Book of Card Tricks, Leng, no date [circa 1910]; an instruction book for the Lagonda 4 1/2 Litre; an instruction booklet for the care of the Buick car, 1920; approximately ninety-five issues of The Bristol Motor Cycle & Light Car Club Journal, circa 1947-51; and other items.
MAGIC / PUZZLES / TRICKS. Hoffman, Professor. Later Magic, Routledge, London no date. Pictorial crimson cloth, text illustrations, two pages of adverts, quarto (hinges weak; corners bumped; spine rubbed and with faded gilding); Cremer, W.H. (translator & editor). The Secret Out. One Thousand Tricks in Drawing-Room or White Magic, Grant, Edinburgh no date. Pictorial green cloth, text illustrations, octavo; Goldston, Will. Latest Conjuring, Gamage, London no date. Dark green cloth gilt (re-backed), text illustrations, seventeen pages of publisher`s adverts, octavo; and fourteen other assorted works, (17).

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