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-Magic Collecting is a relatively recent phenomenon.
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-While there were a few collectors 100 years ago, there were so few that they were known to everyone: [[Saram Ellison]] was one. When he tried to eventually sell his collection through [[The Sphinx]], there were no takers so he left it to the New York Public Library. Is it still there?
-[[Chung Ling Soo]] posters which now bring thousands of dollars were, only 40 years ago, being used by [[Davenports]] of London to wrap parcels of magic being shipped to mail-order customers.
-The field of magic collecting has exploded in the last few decades. Although there is a growing group of collectors that are actually investing in magic collectibles, the majority of collectors have a love of magic history at the core of their interest. This group has taken up the mantra: Collect, Collate and Communicate. The following of this collecting philosophy and the rising prices of magic collectibles has tended to cause most serious collectors to specialize in a particular area. Some of the most common areas of specialization are periodicals, books, posters, apparatus and ephemera. Some collectors are specializing in a subcategory of one of these main areas. For example, in the area of ephemera, a number of collectors have focused on 8 x 10's or business cards or programs.
-It should be noted that the result of this specialization and the above listed collecting philosophy is the production of a massive amount of new conjuring literature which includes many wonderful biographies, for example.
-MAJOR collections in the United States are:
-BOOKS: [[Ray Ricard]], [[Byron Walker]], [[Clay Shevlin]]( specialty: magic bibliographies, [[Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin|Robert-Houdin]] and magic history)
-[[Magic_Periodicals|PERIODICALS]]: [[George Daily]](also posters, books, special collection of FORCE BOOKS,as well as, WEE BOOKS and [[Houdiniana]]), [[Steve Fernandes]] and [[Jim Alfredson]](also magicians bookplates)
-POSTERS: [[Norm Neilson]], [[George Daily]], [[Charles Greene]]
-EPHEMERA: [[Michael Claxton]](specialty: female and minority magicians)
-APPARATUS: [[Phil Schwartz]], [[Nelson Nicholson]], [[Ray Goulet]] ([[P&L]], and Ray has a wonderful museum in Watertown, Mass.)
-WANDS: [[Bill Spooner]]
-CUPS & BALLS: [[Bill Palmer]]
-HOUDINIANA: [[Steven Sparks]]
-Other collectors include [[Tad Ware]] (illusions), [[Ken Klosterman]] (general), [[Bill King]] (20th century magic) among many others. (Feel free to edit this list and add more names and their specialties).
-The largest collection in the United States belongs to [[David Copperfield]], whose collection should rightly be called The [[Metropolitan Museum of Magic]]. It is a staggering collection encompassing every type of collectible in the field of magic, all in massive quantities.
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