Recent content by Professor Plum

A Baroque pastel of a young lady from a Peter Paul Rubens sketch book.

Garden salad. Broiled fresh halibut filet with hollandaise sauce. Spinach souffle And a bottle of Joh. Jos. Prum Riesling Kabinett 2007.

Asphalt Jungle & Border Incident

I like this guy:

One of our smaller locations had a '59 S & S (Hess and Eisenhardt) Park Row and a '59 Fleetwood 75 limousine as their #1 set of service cars. The Park Row was a combination that could be quickly converted from a hearse to an ambulance and was the was the only dual purpose vehicle we owned...

What a great model with outstanding detail! My family has been in the funeral business since before the Civil War and rendered motorized ambulance service to their communities until the mid '60s. You probably already know this but it is model of a 1959 Cadillac Crown Royale built by Superior...

It's a photo of what Bonnie and Clyde would have looked like as senior citizens.

Found six copies of this old funny book in the bottom of a box full of Beanie Babies at a flea market. Threw 'em out but kept the Beanie Babies...

Robert-Houdin also impressed those unhappy Algerian Arabs with his performance of the light-heavy box. There is a good book on the bullet catch trick called Twelve Have Died Bullet Catching - The Story & Secrets by Ben Robinson. It's a bit difficult to find, but if you come across a copy...

Nice to meet you, Doc! 100 Years of Magic Posters by Charles and Regina Reynolds. Several of the posters shown in that book are from my collection. Below is a variation of the one on the front cover by the same lithographer that I purchased from Christian Fechner. You remember...

Thank you very much for your kind words. C.A. Conlin was a real piece of work and one of the most "colorful" performers in magic's Golden Age. Pick up a copy of, Alexander The Man Who Knows by Charvet and Pomeroy for a most interesting read on the gent. Here's another personal favorite...

Well done.

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