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Auction History Result 3p212 CARTER THE GREAT linen 3sh magic poster '30s cool art of act w/Chinese girl stretched in box! Date Sold 9/9/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Three-Sheet Magic Show Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) Carter the Great (born Charles Joseph Carter) was a stage magician from the 1890s to 1936. He began his career as a journalist and lawyer, but eventually transitioned to 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. Carter died while on tour in India in 1936, and a highly fictionalized account of his life can be found in the 2001 book Carter Beats the Devil, by Glen David Gold. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had some tiny paper loss on a few foldlines but was otherwise in pretty nice condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was backed onto a thin linen with no excess, and likely displayed on a wall without being framed. There are three pieces of brown tape on the back of the top border of the linen, but they were not put there for a restoration purpose (likely they were involved in how the poster was attached to a wall). Most likely, after the poster was backed, it acquired some scattered dot water stains and tiny bits of paper loss in the top 6" and some vertical scratches in the center of the poster in the bottom 6" (either that or those defects were there prior to being backed and the person did no restoration). In any event, this great poster can be displayed and enjoyed as it is, and certainly, it can be removed from the thin linen and backed with restoration of the above defects, and it will display fantastically! Learn More about condition grades 
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