Maskelyne and Cooke's Mysteries
Promotional postcard for "Will, the Witch and the Watchman", one of the most popular magic playlets performed by John Nevil Maskelyne and George Cooke. In "White Magic, The story of Maskelynes" (1936), Jasper Maskelyne describes the trick and says that his grandfather performed it more than 11, 000 times over forty years
Picture No
11770146
Media ID
46890980
Size
3004px x 4724px
(2.5MB)
Credit
© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
pormotional postcard
Date
circa 1887
