Posted 10 years ago
zguy2112
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This is an original De La Mano 19th century broadside from my private collection of Magic posters. This broadside from 1877 is in excellent condition and advertises De La Mano's 25 cent Magic show. (See my other De La Mano broadsides here on CW)
When traveling magician De L Mano ( Zell Dreitzehn) suddenly and permanently vanished in the early autumn of 1882, he left behind a trunk full of elaborate broadsides and poster... and an unsolved mystery. De La Mano was a wealthy Austrian whose family owned a successful European circus. By the age of 20, De La Mano was a highly skilled and most inventive illusionist with a most enthusiastic following.
De La Mano was last known to be investigating psychic occurrences at a farm in Westerlo, New York during the fall of 1882. While locked in his room during a severe thunderstorm, De La Mano vanished from the face of the Earth. No one ever saw or heard from him again. His entire illusion show, packed and stored in some forgotten warehouse, has never surfaced.
