Rüdiger Deutsch, magician and professional photographer, produced this beautiful calendar. The page for each month shows a photograph of an early 1900s piece of German built magical apparatus. The calendar was produced as part of the “Magic Up To Date” Düsseldorf Congress in September 1978.
This is one of a pair of posters designed to advertise the show in a shop window. To attract attention the display included a flashing light bulb with no visible means of power reaching it. See also poster N738. John Davenport was one of the acts on the bill.
This is one of a pair of posters designed to advertise the show in a shop window. To attract attention the display included a flashing light bulb with no visible means of power reaching it. See also poster N739. John Davenport was one of the acts on the bill.
This was a Cambridge Pentacle Magic Club show in which John Davenport performed the Oswald Williams Noah’s Ark Illusion.
Eric Widger invited John Davenport and Claude Perry to appear on this bill.
Purchased from George Kovari by John Davenport in 2015. George had bought it directly from Peter Warlock. It was a particular pleasure to add this to the collection because Lewis Davenport regularly performed the de Kolta expanding die trick.
Painted by Peter in 1978, his daughter Elizabeth Warlock said that it was originally painted as a gift for friend Jack Heeren, a magician living in Canada.
Peter Warlock called this painting ‘The Vanishing Trick’. It came to the Davenport Collection when we purchased it from Richard Stupple in 1996. The bottom right hand corner says ‘Peter Warlock – 78’. It is very likely that Peter was influenced by ‘Man with a Newspaper’ by René Magritte, as in the postcard reproduction, illustrated here.