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wkitwizard Elite user Los Angeles 466 Posts |
Made in the late 40's through the mid '50s, was advertised as an illustrated
item in Douglas Magicland catalog for 1957. The manufacturer? Click here to view attached image.
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wkitwizard Elite user Los Angeles 466 Posts |
One just sold on the big auction site. First one I've seen in fifty years...
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
Have you found any info?
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wkitwizard Elite user Los Angeles 466 Posts |
Nope, nada. Even a long-time collectible magic dealer hasn't seen but one in 37 years.
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
I just sent the photo to someone who might know. Maybe we can figure this thing out for you. BTW - are the images decals, silk screened, or sprayed stencils? My guess is silk screen. Homer Hudson was known for some of his silk screen work, but there were others that used the process too, I believe.
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wkitwizard Elite user Los Angeles 466 Posts |
The artwork is stencil-VERY GOOD stencil work. I've keep this item since I was twelve years old, but never thought much about it, until I started
looking closer at the artwork on Abbott, Mak, and other USA manufacturer's apparatus. Since I've tried to stencil artwork myself, I realize how difficult it was to match up the "goldfish" with the background and green "seaweed" on each panel of the silk cabby. If it was silkscreen process, that's still tough to do on such a small area.
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
Homer Hudson Die Boxes and Vampire Blocks were both small and silk screened. So far, no luck on an ID for this thing, but I'll keep asking around.
~michael baker
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wkitwizard Elite user Los Angeles 466 Posts |
Might have been Hudson, but I don't have anything of his at the moment. Do remember Mr Smith at Owen Magic not liking him too much.
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Jim Sparx Inner circle Far Out, Texas 1144 Posts |
Different front,Thayers, circa 1930 currently being sold here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll......5wt_1037
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Jim Sparx Inner circle Far Out, Texas 1144 Posts |
I'll dig out some of my old Thayers catalogs out of the barn when I get back from Dr. later today. But that pretty much looks like it with the little red feet at the bottom. I'll see if they offered it with various frontal designs or maybe that was something the new owner pasted on himself.
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Jim Sparx Inner circle Far Out, Texas 1144 Posts |
After an exhaustive search of everything Thayers we can come to the following conclusion: This is not a Thayers product, in fact, it is currently listed in the Abbott's catalog and on their web page. This cabby was designed by Arthur Babbs, known as Arturo at the Abbott factory. What is similar to both the Arturo version and the Thayer version is the little red feet. If Mr. Arturo borrowed this idea from Thayers, we will never know. This concludes this little venture into the oldies.
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Jim Sparx Inner circle Far Out, Texas 1144 Posts |
A closer look at another web page from Abbott's says maybe this in not an Arturo cabinet. I was paying more attention to the lady holding the caddy and missed seeing the brass hinges. Will keep looking
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hugmagic Inner circle 7655 Posts |
It is definitely not Abbott's or Thayer. I have seen it before but cannot place it.
Richard
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Jim Sparx Inner circle Far Out, Texas 1144 Posts |
Finally an answer. A message to Paul Gross at Hocus Pocus brings this response and hopefully an end to this mystery:
On 3/21/2012 12:10:48 PM, Paul Gross (sales@hocus-pocus.com) wrote: > Hello Jim, > > Thank you for your letter. The Silk Cabby was mfg. by Homer Hudson. It is > one of his earlier versions with the fish decoration. The later models > were > mfg. with a dragon design instead. I hope that this info. helps. Michael Baker nailed it with his first guess.
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
Good to finally know. Hudson was an artist with a style all his own.
~michael baker
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