"...in addition to being a great performer, Fantasio was an extraordinary and innovative inventor. His original effects with canes and candles, that appeared, disappeared, changed places and changed colors, became among the very best selling items for silent and manipulative stage acts, and influenced countless magicians who strove to follow in the maestro’s steps."

Haversat & Ewing Galleries are hosting La Petite Auction, November 10 & 11, 2017.

Part two of the auction of the collectin of the late Bill McIlhany will be next Sunday, November 12, 2017.

J.C. Wagner was a wonderful magician and a skilled and creative sleight-of-hand performer. Like most professional close-up performers, he was no household name, he wasn’t much known beyond the community of magic. But his life amounted to a stellar conjuring resumé ...

To say that Billy McComb was a beloved figure is a failure of language and imagination. Throughout the world of magic, on multiple continents, he was adored.

At the age of nine, he lost his right hand as the result of a car accident. Rather than dissuading him from his pursuit of magic, it may have served to motivate and elevate his passion...

Jerry Andrus was as brilliant as he was eccentric—which is saying something—in fact, saying quite a lot.

One simply cannot exaggerate Jay Marshall’s success as a performer, and the lengthy list of top venues he performed at over many decades. But it’s also true that this is only a part of his story...

Friends of the late James Hamilton Muszalski are invited to his Committal Ceremony on October 7.