September 2025
In this issue:

- Rowan Gibbs, author of a comprehensive study on Bartolomeo Bosco and many other performers who used that name, presents a careful biographical study on Signor Blitz, a popular illusionist, ventriloquist and entertainer, finally revealing his birth place and his real name, finally correcting the magical record!
- The Museum Bellachini in Hamburg, Germany, is currently presenting an exhibition dedicated to Kalanag, the influential post-war German magician, and we present a review of the exhibition and of its vernissage by Manfred Jürgens, with numerous photos to help you live part of the experience.
- Jan Isenbart, popular author of an important magical blog, reports on the recent 32nd German Symposium on Magic History, with more details than usual on many lectures.
- Jan then returns with a historical article that reveals, after a careful investigation of the few surviving records, how a magic trick by the great Russian illusionist Kio worked, with some hitherto unpublished images.
- Pietro Micheli from Italy flew all the way to London to attend The Magic Circle History Day and his review is a nice reminder of this great event, from last June.
- Many pages are dedicate to magic auctions of the last three months, presenting the most unusual magical items that have gone under the hammer in our regular Auction Action column, with reviews of the last auctions of the collections of Ken Klosterman and of more rare and unusual magic ephemera, including Tommy Cooper‘s cloack.
- Many books are reviewed in depth in this issue, including:
- Kalanag – Hinter den Kulissen von Simsalabim
- S.W. Erdnase: Another View
- Julius Laschott and his Dissolving Views
- Todd Karr’s Bibliography of Magic
- Magic Metamorphosis
- Our editor, Marco Pusterla, presents a couple of shorter stories and magic research in the beloved Chewing the (Magic) Fat column, with new information on magic of the past.
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Ye Olde Magic Mag is the first fully-digital magazine on Magic History and on collecting magical memorabilia, edited and published by Marco Pusterla, A.I.M.C. A quarterly publication, available in a small number of printed copies, all individually numbered and signed, for real collectors. The printed version is shipped post-free worldwide and gives access to the digital copy! We recommend you subscribe to the magazine with a PayPal recurring payment as that will ensure you receive the same issue number every time.