18 days to engage more KissKissbankers. Big thanks for the ones that have supported me already.

18 days is a good deadline as by then, we should be done with editing the text and translation into German is underway. The text will be translated into German because it will be easier to distribute the book in Luxembourg as local history and I would like to launch it at the German magic collectors meeting, which will be held end of August in Münster.

It is quite amazing to see how many people are researching into the history of magic and are collecting books, posters, big illusions, ephemera ... everything that somehow is of interest. There are also many occasions to meet and exchange: the above mentioned yearly German meeting, monthly meetings in Paris, the European conference every second year, and in the States: Boston, L.A., and Chicago. Then there are the many auctions.... I am not often successful with bidding but am glad to have gotten two Weyer playbills from Christian Fechner's collection. The successful film producer, who died in 2008 in Paris, started off as a ventriloquist and magician, and invented the levitating bar stool. He was an avid collector and expert about Robert Houdin, the first "modern" magician.

One of the playbills will be included in the book. Unfortunatly, most of the photo material, I collected, is of such bad quality that it can't be printed. Here are some of the photos, at least online.

Lily Weyer (aka Anna Wahl from Rumelange), Weyer's wife

Lilian Anna and Alexander jr, two of Weyer's three children

I got these photos from Weyer's grand-daughter, who lives in New Jersey. How I found here, is another story for another time...

The Life of the Great Alex Weyer