Lot 3059

Description

Magician badges, includes Wizards Magicians Club; David Jones Junior Magical Club; International Brotherhood of Magicians; tinnie for Member of the ETA Magicians Club and various other badges, and a host of magician related tokens and modified coins as well as a range of other coins, mostly Australian, and a belt made from Great Britain farthings, halfpennies and pennies, mostly Queen Victoria issues, with a list of coin donors made by Mrs Will Andrade. Poor - uncirculated. (100+)

All formerly the property of Harry Job, magician, who was born in Parkes, NSW in 1909. Harry became interested in magic when the family moved to Sydney in 1916 and by the 1930s he was an accomplished magician and manager of Andrade's Magic Department, which had been established by Will Andrade a decade earlier. Following a fatal accident to Will Andrade in 1939, Harry took over the business and the name Will Andrade. In World War II, he entertained troops at camp concerts and in hospitals. He was also with the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces Unit (BCOF) in Japan in 1948 and was the magician in 'Myles of Smiles' concert party that toured Japan at war's end. Harry Job died in 1996.

Will Andrade had bookstores in Melbourne and at 173 Pitt Street, Sydney.

See also lot 3026.