NewP just for luck!!

Teva

I am a sucker for anything odd and this one cought my eye
so it followed me home today. Went to the local show today
thousands of coins and I come home with this?
I am expecting grades this week maybe it will help?LOL

llafoe

Nice... was it painted or is that toning?

I must be tired... for luck looked like one word to me!

Broadstruck

I most likely would have bought it too as it's neat-o!



Mention the name Howard Thurston these days and you're likely to get a blank stare. But 90 years ago Thurston was the greatest stage magician in the country and one of the biggest names in show business. It was a name that was known like Ziegfeld, like Ringling Brothers. In 1926 he was making a horse disappear onstage. His great feature was always the levitation illusion that was included in every show. Later he added a vanishing automobile to his show anything that could be turned into a poster that would attract audiences back again. Thurston's great rival and occasional friend was the escape artist Harry Houdini. The two men had met as struggling sideshow performers at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and for the next 30 years they fought each other for the spotlight. When Houdini died in 1926 he was actually slightly less famous than Thurston. But today Houdini is the name everyone remembers.

History on YouTube

Broadstruck

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It's patina on the areas of this VF-XF example that do not posses rub.

Teva

Great history lesson Broadstruck I like it even more now!!

Broadstruck

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Your welcome Teva

That's the joy of exonumia as you can trace it's history.