Museum-grade prints · positively presented

The poster that promised the impossible.

Kellar and his devils · Thurston and the spirits · Alexander, who knows

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Act I — the bill of the evening

Six acts, every one real

Not thousands of designs — a curated house of fifty-four restored sheets, hung as the six stories the golden age actually told.

I.The Spirits"Do the spirits come back?" Thurston séance poster — Do the Spirits Come Back? II.The MantleThe great magician. Thurston the Great Magician lithograph III.The Man Who KnowsYour question, answered. Alexander, The Man Who Knows — red turban portrait IV.Carter the GreatThe devil, outplayed. Carter the Great — Do the Dead Materialize? V.The MasqueradeThe marvelous Chinese conjuror (who was neither). Chung Ling Soo portrait lithograph VI.The Escape KingNothing holds him. Review lane · publishes with sign-off

Intermission — house lights up

The stone, the ink, the price

Engraving of a lithography limestone block with ink roller

Every sheet here began as a drawing on limestone — grease crayon, acid, ink, one color per stone, one pass per color. We restore the scan, not the myth: fifty-four sheets hang in the house today, and thirty-five are print-ready — each offered only at the sizes its scan resolution honestly carries.

Giclée on archival rag · the trade's historical formats
FormatPriceAs the theatres hung it
Lobby Card8×12$458×12 — the foyer easel card.
Window Card12×18$9512×18 — the shop-window announcement.
Half-Sheet16×24$18516×24 — over the box office.
One-Sheet24×36$34024×36 — the standard bill.
Theatre One-Sheet27×41$42027×41 — full theatrical size, for the sheets whose scans can carry it.

A piece that can't honestly carry a One-Sheet is never sold at one. The size ladder on every piece page lists only what its scan supports.

Act II — the house rules

True stories, or none

Every sheet is real

Every piece in the catalog is a genuine pre-1931 lithograph from verified public-domain scans — Library of Congress, the Friedländer archive, the museum collections. We restore the artifact; we never invent one.

We sell the truth with the artifact

The era's most famous "Chinese" conjuror was William Robinson, an American in yellowface, dead by his own bullet-catch in 1918. The Masquerade collection names the man and the masquerade plainly — the poster is the evidence.

Some names are not ours to market

The most famous name in escape remains actively claimed, so the house sells that era as history — the artifact, never the name as our marketing — with publicity review before any piece publishes.

Restored sheets in the house · 54
Print-ready today · 35
Flagship collections · 6 of 9
Rights gate · PD pre-1931, verified
Sizes per sheet · only what the scan carries
Invented pieces · none, ever

Hang the impossible.

Fifty-four sheets from the age when a poster had to sell a miracle by Saturday.

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