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Houdini Auction: Posters, Handcuffs, Ephemera
Potter & Potter's summer auction will spotlight choice memorabilia related to the most famous magician and escape artist the world has ever known: Harry Houdini. Among the featured items are:
-Lithographs, Broadsides and Challenges, featuring the iconic ?King of Cards? poster used in Houdini?s earliest days as a circus performer.
-Photographs and Ephemera, among them Houdini family pictures, postcards, manuscripts, autographs and correspondence, including unpublished images and documents.
-A Recently-Discovered Houdini Scrapbook, as well as a Houdini family scrapbook, and other personal artifacts.
-Handcuffs, Magic Props, Locks, and Escape Devices, including unusual restraints used by Houdini and his brother, Hardeen.
-Associated Memorabilia, chief among them documents related to Hardeen, as well as others magicians and celebrities who crossed Houdini?s path; and additional rare magicana.
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0025: Houdini. Mysterious Mr. Yu or Haldane of the Secret SvcEst. US$1,500-US$2,500
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0039: Houdini’s Double Fold Death Defying Water Mystery.1909.Est. US$20,000-US$25,000
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0040: Houdini Regulation Bean Prison Handcuffs. w/provenance.Est. US$3,000-US$4,000
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0041: Houdini-owned Cobb handcuffs. 1898 patent, w/provenanceEst. US$3,500-US$4,500
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0043: Houdini Flower Production. NY, R.S. Schlosser (?) 1910.Est. US$1,500-US$2,500
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0046: Houdini Large Letter Lock. Heavy metal combination lockEst. US$7,000-US$9,000
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