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KINDLY STOP BY MY OTHER EBAY AUCTIONS AS I HAVE SOME GREAT PIN-UP AND EPHEMERA AND OLD GOLDEN AGE OF ILLUSTRATION ANTIQUE THEATER POSTERS THIS WEEK AND ALL SELL NO RESERVE !! HERE IS A PEEK AT THIS WEEKS EBAY AUCTION TREASURES WE JUST PURCHASED A LARGE COLLECTION OF STONE LITHOGRAPH PERIOD 1920'S - 30'S THEATER POSTERS WITH AMAZING IMAGERY AND ART NOUVEAU - ART DECO ERA AESTHETICS ~~ SOME RARE IMAGES WE HAVE NEVER HAD TO SELL BEFORE PLEASE SEE OUR OTHER AUCTIONS AND HAVE A LOOK !!
 ITEM: YOU ARE BIDDING ON A BEAUTIFUL COMPLETE 1926 OTIS COMPANY LITHOGRAPH HUGE (106" X 80") 8 SHEET SIZED AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE MAGIC POSTER BY PRE-EMINENT ILLUSIONIST AND COMPETITOR TO HARRY HOUDINI, CARTER THE GREAT (CHARLES JOSEPH CARTER) A DAZZLING ARCHIVED AND RARE VERY WELL PRESERVED CONDITION WAREHOUSE FIND FOR AN EARLY MAGIC OVER THE TOP STUNT MAN (CHRIS ANGEL AND DAVID BLAINE HAVE NOTHING ON THESE GUYS), A WONDERFUL AND COLORFUL EXAMPLE. SCENE FEATURES A WONDERFUL EERIE VIEW OF CARTER ON THE GALLOWS CHEATING DEATH AS HIS SOUL LEAVES HIS BODY AND HIS MORTAL COIL LOOKS ON FROM THE SIDELINE IN VERY STYLIZED ORIENTALIST SETTING. WE HAVE INCLUDED MANY DETAILED VIEWS TO SHOW HOW BRIGHT AND COLORFUL AND AMAZING THE LITHOGRAPHY IS ON THIS INCREDIBLY RARE PIECE, WHEN LINEN MOUNTED AND FRAMED THIS WILL DISPLAY IN THE MOST PHENOMENAL WAY.
THE POSTER IS IN CALLED 8 SHEET SIZE & WHEN PLACED TOGETHER THIS MEASURES A WHOPPING 90" X 40" THE IMAGERY IS INCREDIBLE AND SURE TO PLEASE!!
THE COLORS ARE INCREDIBLE AND REALLY POP ON THIS OLD ARCHIVED WAREHOUSE FIND. 100% GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND OLD AND AN ANTIQUE FINE OLD LITHOGRAPHED POSTER . CONDITION IN EXCELLENT WITH SOME WEAR ALONG THE MAILING FOLDS THAT CAN EASILY BE ADDRESSED BY A CONSERVATOR OR YOUR SELF ONCE THIS IS MOUNTED FOR DISPLAY, THE LITHOGRAPHY IS STUPENDOUS AND OVER THE TOP A RARE OLD ORIGINAL THEATER DOCUMENT THAT SELLS NO RESERVE.
Charles Joseph Carter (1874 – 1936) was an American stage magician, also known as "Carter the Great." A native of San Francisco, California, Carter began his career as a journalist and lawyer. As time passed, he grew an interest in 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. Charles Carter first theatrical experience occurred at the Herzog's museum and Pat Harris' Masonic Temple in Baltimore at the tender age of 10, where he appeared as "Master Charles Carter the Original Boy Magician". A fictionalized account of his life can be found in Carter Beats the Devil (ISBN 0-7868-8632-3) by Glen David Gold. Carter purchased the famous Martinka Magic Palace in 1917, a time when he was unable to continue his world touring magic show. The story goes that he kept his lion, Monty in the back room of the shop and when it would roar, the startled customers would run for the door. Carter's home in San Francisco was rented by the Sumitomo Bank of California in the 1980s-90s and used as a residence for the Bank's President. Carter used to put on shows in the basement and you can still see occult references in the stained glass windows. The house is in the Seacliff District of San Francisco near the Pacific Ocean. It is sometimes mistakenly referred to as the "Houdini Mansion". It is now used as a foreign consulate. Following the death of his father from a heart attack in 1936, son Larry Carter took over as Carter the Great.
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