Spring Magic Auction 2017-04-08 Auction - 448 Price Results - Potter & Potter Auctions in IL - Page 14
Escamotage Magic Set.Erdnase, S.W. The Expert at the Card Table.Bess Houdini's Diamond and Gemstone Brooch
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Chicago, IL, United States
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Spring Magic Auction

Our spring auction features magic memorabilia, books, posters, and apparatus for beginning and advanced collectors alike. Hightlights include a brooch presented to Bess Houdini by Russian royalty, Carl Waring Jones correspondence, and three pages of rhyming verse hand written by Harry Houdini.
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Houdini Family Photograph.: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Houdini Family Photograph. Circa 1909. Houdini peeks out from a doorway on the steps of his wife's family home, surrounded by his wife Bess, her sister, and her mother.
0309: Houdini Family Photograph.Est. $700-$900
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Houdini Straitjacket Escape Photo Signed.: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Houdini Straitjacket Escape Photo Signed. Circa 1920. Houdini hangs upside down from a block and tackle, holding a straitjacket in one outstretched hand at the
0311: Houdini Straitjacket Escape Photo Signed.Est. $1,500-$1,800
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Houdini Straitjacket Escape Photograph.: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Houdini Straitjacket Escape Photograph. Circa 1912. Houdini dangles from a long chain, wriggling free from a leather straitjacket while hanging high above the street. 8
0312: Houdini Straitjacket Escape Photograph.Est. $400-$600
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Houdini Terror Island Movie Program.: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Houdini Terror Island Movie Program. The Hippodrome Weekly, Vol. 1, No. 24 for the week of July 26, 1920, featuring Houdini and Lila Lee in a scene from Terror Island
0313: Houdini Terror Island Movie Program.Est. $400-$600
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Houdini Theater Program.: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Houdini Theater Program. Chicago, ca. 1925. Photographs of Houdini show him with Teddy Roosevelt, as well as a spirit photograph with Abraham Lincoln. Text describes
0314: Houdini Theater Program.Est. $200-$300
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Typed Letter Signed, "Houdini," to Richard Van Dien.: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Typed Letter Signed, "Houdini," to Richard Van Dien. New York, June 7, 1923. On a half page of Houdini's personal letterhead, a brief letter to Van Dien, originally
0315: Typed Letter Signed, "Houdini," to Richard Van Dien.Est. $1,200-$1,800
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Belgian Challenge Handbill.: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Belgian Challenge Handbill. Brussels: Bonnege, 1912. Letterpress challenge broadside from the Maison Bosquet defying Houdini to escape from a packing case. 15 ¼ x 11
0316: Belgian Challenge Handbill.Est. $600-$900
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German Variety Handbill Featuring Houdini.: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). German Variety Handbill Featuring Houdini. Stuttgart: A. Lindheimer, (1913). Letterpress variety circus handbill featuring Houdini in the center column, presenting the
0317: German Variety Handbill Featuring Houdini.Est. $200-$300
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Profile Portrait Photograph.: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Profile Portrait Photograph. [New York], 1920s; printed 1961. Gelatin silver print from the original glass negative. 10 x 8". Minor creasing; near fine overall.
0318: Profile Portrait Photograph.Est. $100-$150
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Houdini "Master Mystifier" Laudatory Postcard.: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Houdini "Master Mystifier" Laudatory Postcard. Chicago, 1910s. A postcard promoting Houdini's engagement at the Princess Theatre by way of a pre-written letter from the
0319: Houdini "Master Mystifier" Laudatory Postcard.Est. $100-$200
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Houdini "Master Mystifier Laudatory Postcard.: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Houdini "Master Mystifier Laudatory Postcard. Chicago, 1910s. A postcard promoting Houdini's engagement at the Princess Theatre, instructing the sender to "state how
0320: Houdini "Master Mystifier Laudatory Postcard.Est. $100-$200
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Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Cuban Trade Card.: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Cuban Trade Card. Havana: Henry Clay and Bock, ca. 1920. Bearing a well-known portrait of the smiling magician, the verso numbered 71R, with printed information on the
0321: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Cuban Trade Card.Est. $200-$300
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Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Cuban Trade Card.: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Cuban Trade Card. Havana, ca. 1920. Recto portrait of Houdini taken at Paramount Studios, thin black border bearing the magician's name and studio credit, the verso
0322: Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Cuban Trade Card.Est. $200-$300
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Archive of Vintage Magic Trick Instructions and: [Instruction Sheets] Archive of Vintage Magic Trick Instructions and Routines. American, 1920s – 40s. Five binders, containing several hundred pieces total, and neatly organized in sleeves by
0324: Archive of Vintage Magic Trick Instructions andEst. $150-$250
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Joseffy (Joseph Freud). Autograph Letter Signed.: Joseffy (Joseph Freud). Autograph Letter Signed. Including a June 9, 1915 autograph letter signed, "Mysteriously Yours/ Joseffy," on Necromancer letterhead, to an unnamed friend, offering his opinion
0326: Joseffy (Joseph Freud). Autograph Letter Signed.Est. $300-$500
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Kellar, Harry (Heinrich Keller). Autograph Letter: Kellar, Harry (Heinrich Keller). Autograph Letter Signed, "Kellar," to Howard Thurston. Los Angeles, December 1, 1913. One folded sheet of personal letterhead, a warm and engaging letter from the
0329: Kellar, Harry (Heinrich Keller). Autograph LetterEst. $700-$1,000