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Auction History Result 3j0528 CARTER THE GREAT linen 81x107 magic poster 1926 art of the vanishing sacred elephant, rare! Date Sold 12/20/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked Magic Show Poster (measures 81" x 107" [206 x 272 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. Important Added Info: Note that we are currently auctioning two different Carter magic posters of this size, but with different images (and in separate auctions)! We have only auctioned this "vanishing elephant" style once before. Note that Carter, like other magicians of his time, had many posters printed at once, due to the economics of full-color printing (it did not cost much more to print thousands of posters as it did to print dozens of them!). So he would have a large supply of each poster, and then they would have been used over a period of years (which is also why you rarely see full-color magic posters with play dates or specific information on them, specifically so they COULD be used in many different places over a long time). This makes it very difficult to date them. We have seen this poster dated as 1926 and as 1936, but fortunately, because we have a massive database of litho numbers taken directly from posters, we were able to determine that the litho number from this poster (combined with the printing company) is from 1926 exactly! If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair. The poster had paper loss at some crossfolds and some small tears and small areas of paper loss on parts of some folds. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was backed pretty well, with little to no restoration, but unfortunately, after it was backed, it was very roughly handled, and it acquired some water staining down the center, much more significantly in the bottom center, where it caused the linen to ripple quite a bit, and areas where the poster is now "lifting" from the linen along small parts of some folds. There are also some tears in the poster that occurred after it was backed, where the torn poster is separating from the linen. There are various ways one could deal with this, including leaving it as it is, having restoration performed to it backed, or having it completely re-backed, but bear all this in mind before bidding. Learn More about condition grades 
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