Est. the golden age · 47 sheets · every one real
The poster promised the impossible.
Museum-grade prints of the golden age of stage magic. Every sheet in this house is a real pre-1931 stone lithograph — the devils, the levitations, the all-seeing eyes — restored and printed in the theatre formats they were made for.
Enter the galleryThe flagship six
The house hangs by collection
Not thousands of designs — forty-seven sheets, curated into the six stories the golden age actually told.
IThe Spirits"Do the spirits come back?"
IIThe MantleThe great magician.
IIIThe Man Who KnowsYour question, answered.
IVCarter the GreatThe devil, outplayed.
VThe MasqueradeThe marvelous Chinese conjuror (who was neither).
VIThe Escape KingNothing holds him.
Review lane · publishes with sign-off
Selected sheets
The wall
Kellar — LevitationHarry Kellar · Strobridge Lith. Co. · to Half-Sheet 16×24
The Crystal SeerAlexander · mentalism at maximum · print formats vary
The Vanishing BirdcageCarl Hertz · print formats vary
Imps in the WoodsHarry Kellar · Strobridge Lith. Co. · to Half-Sheet 16×24
Long Tack SamWorld renowned · to Theatre One-Sheet 27×41
The Tiger GodHorace Goldin · print formats vary
Comedians de MephistoServais LeRoy · the Continent · print formats vary
Sleeping BeautyAdelaide Herrmann · the Queen of Magic · print formats vary
East Indian Rope TrickHoward Thurston · print formats vary
The price list
Five formats. The theatre's own.
| Format | Price | As the theatres hung it |
|---|---|---|
| Lobby Card | $45 | 8×12 — the foyer easel card. |
| Window Card | $95 | 12×18 — the shop-window announcement. |
| Half-Sheet | $185 | 16×24 — over the box office. |
| One-Sheet | $340 | 24×36 — the standard bill. |
| Theatre One-Sheet | $420 | 27×41 — full theatrical size, for the sheets whose scans can carry it. |
Each sheet lists only the sizes its scan resolution honestly supports — a piece that can't carry a One-Sheet is never sold at one.
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.
Sheets in the house · 47
Flagship collections · 6
Rights gate · PD pre-1931, verified
Print sizes per sheet · only what the scan carries
Invented pieces · none, ever
Hang the impossible.
Forty-seven sheets from the age when a poster had to sell a miracle by Saturday.
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