Magic memorabilia and artifacts is a hot collecting category in the marketplace. Potter & Potter Auctions held a 555-lot sale held on June 21 featuring the fourth offering of materials from Ken Klosterman (1933-2020). He was the owner and CEO of Klosterman Baking Company and a celebrated magic collector. All prices reported include a 20 percent buyers premium. The top lot was Klostermans massive library of 20th-century magic publications, lecture notes, and magic booklets. Estimated at $2,000 to $4,000, it realized $20,400. All materials, including an estimated 2,000 volumes in 73 containers, were organized alphabetically in file boxes. Most were in English, with works mostly published in the U.S. and Great Britain. In addition to magic, the collection was interspersed with publications in allied arts including ventriloquism, hypnotism, carnivals, automata, shadowgraphy, and more. Other results included an archive of materials related to Karl Germain (American, b. Charles Mattmueller, 1878-1959) spanning the 1890s to 1970s time frame, estimated at $15,000 to $25,000 and selling for $19,200. It included hundreds of pages of documents housed in three volumes. The first contained manuscripts, typescripts, drawings, and other compositions in Germains hand. The second contained ephemeral relics from Germains career, including programs, newspaper and magazine clippings, handbills, brochures, and letters. And the third had typescripts, correspondence, and related material from the careers of the two magicians most responsible for growing and elevating Germains legacy - Paul Fleming and Stewart Cramer. An Appearing Magic Kettle, estimated at $3,000 to $5,000, appeared at a selling price of $14,400. Made in Los Angeles, Calif., by John Gaughan in the early 2000s after a design of Carl Willmann, with this illusion, the performer produced a tea kettle from an empty foulard, then poured any drink called for from it. This was one of six examples manufactured by Gaughan. A foulard is a soft lightweight fabric such as a handkerchief. Klostermans magicians tokens and wooden nickels collection was estimated at $2,500 to $3,500 and realized $10,200. This expansive collection of over 700 tokens and over 200 wooden nickels was housed alphabetically in four vinyl binders, with most tokens in cardstock coin holders with inked identifications. Klostermans collection of magicians cufflinks was estimated at $2,000 to $4,000 and scored $8,400. The grouping included approximately 145 sets of cufflinks owned and worn by many notable magicians of the 20th century. They were housed neatly on two rotating trees with custom-made plaques identifying the links. The collection was sold with many letters or letters of provenance explaining the history behind the links, how they were acquired, and when they were worn. As it turns out, the name Klosterman is synonymous not only with magic tricks, but magic at auction, as our fourth single-consignor sale from his legendary collection proved. Bidding was fierce and spirited through the nine-hour long auction, with the final results of over $600,000 landing some 20 percent above the high estimate, summed up Gabe Fajuri, President at Potter & Potter Auctions. To learn more, visit www.potterauctions.com.