Help us get to over 8,748 articles in 2024.

If you know of a magician not listed in MagicPedia, start a New Biography for them. Contact us at magicpediahelp@gmail.com

Difference between revisions of "Magic Collecting"

From Magicpedia, the free online encyclopedia for magicians by magicians.
Jump to: navigation, search
m
(Redirecting to Category:Collecting)
 
(11 intermediate revisions by 6 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
Magic Collecting is a relatively recent phenomenon.
+
#redirect [[:Category:Collecting]]
 
+
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]]
+
 
+
MAGICIAN TOKENS AND MIRRORS: [[Garry Hayes]]
+
 
+
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.
+
 
+
 
+
[[Category:Collecting]]
+

Latest revision as of 00:32, 21 September 2008