Metal Body Feke. Circa 1910s. Tubular iron (10” across) with cloth strap affixed to metal eyelets, as would be worn around the waist of an assistant to conceal a flexible arrow, facilitating the illusion in which a human target is shot at and penetrated by a solid arrow released from Chung Ling Soo’s cross-bow. Accompanied by a copy of a July 21, 1984 letter of authenticity from Ronald Nesbitt, son of The Great Nesbitt, stating that the item “sold to Messrs. L. Davenport & Co. [was] formerly the property of the late Chung Ling Soo. [It was] purchased by my late father in July 1919 and used by him in his Chinese Magical Act, ‘A Night in Shanghai.’”