I am the proud owner of a very special Collecting Magic Workbook, along with the original articles and photographs used to assembly it.
That’s right, I own the original Master manuscript that was compiled for an SAM Assembly 206 evening (December 13, 2004) of collecting magic in Austin Texas
As you can see by the table of contents, there is lots to like here.
Ron Cartlidge (author of Houdini’s Texas Tours 1916 & 1923; and Houdini’s Final Tour to Texas, 1924) was the President of Assembly 206 at the time.
George Ford and Joseph Lauher had contributions from their web sites (Houdiana.com and Handcuffs.org) on Houdini.
Stephen Sparks, Houdini Collector, was asked to do nine or ten pages for this workbook, which resulted in an illustrated 45-page manuscript on Harry Houdini in the movies, theater, opera, and television.
Today, I share a link to Joseph Lauher’s Article on our friend Fred Pittella:
Nice! Poor Ron, he’s no longer with us. The Houdiniana website was the first HH website I discovered 23 years ago. Then John suddenly showed up on the Internet with his Houdini blog, and I’ve been riding the Big Kahuna’s wave ever since.
Was this the actual program of talks? If so, that was one Houdini-heavy conference!
As far as I can tell, it was an evening of collecting magic, where members did tricks old and seldom seen, followed with talks by Ron Cartlidge (so you want to be a magic collector?), Stephen Sparks-(Harry Houdini in the movies, theater, opera, & television) and a panel discussion. Ron Cartlidge magic collection was also exhibited.