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Artifacts of Play
Start: Oct 12, 2025 12:00PM EDTRare and collectible playing cards, vintage and modern puzzles, antique games and gambling items, and curiosities alike will all cross the block in this collaboration between Potter & Potter and Art of Play. Prices Realized
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Belonging: The Art of American Fraternal Societies
Start: Oct 09, 2025 12:00PM EDTThis auction celebrates the art, ritual objects, and ephemera of American fraternal organizations from the collection of Bruce and Julie Webb. Prices Realized
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Cabinet of Curiosities
Start: Sep 27, 2025 12:00PM EDTJoin us this September for an auction replete with the rare, the odd, and the unusual. From medical curiosities and tattoo flash, to sideshow imagery and carnival wheels, horror classics by Stephen King and movie posters for sci-fi thrillers, this is a seasonal sale of the macabre and the magnificent. Prices Realized
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Select Rarities: Exceptional Books & Manuscripts
Start: Sep 04, 2025 12:00PM EDTThis premier auction features a select group of unusual, uncommon, and choice rarities. A carefully curated offering of printed matter, autographs, and other ephemeral objects, the sale will be led by a first edition of The Book of Mormon, the most important nineteenth century religious book printed in the United States. Prices Realized
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Coin-Op & Advertising
Start: Aug 28, 2025 12:00PM EDTOur summer sale is set to feature a broad range of coin-operated machines and vintage advertising featuring a range of porcelain signs, vending machines, Coca-Cola and soda pop advertising, slot machines and trade stimulators, ice cream and soda fountain collectibles, gambling collectibles, liquor and beer advertising, and more. Prices Realized
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I Know What You're Thinking: The Collection of the Amazing Kreskin
Start: Aug 16, 2025 12:00PM EDTThe Amazing Kreskin was an internationally famous mentalist - a man who could read thoughts. Over the course of a career spanning eight decades, he amassed an incredible collection of arcane objects, and a vast library of books on conjuring, hypnotism, and the unusual. Prices Realized
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Fine Books & Manuscripts, featuring Mystery & Detective Literature
Start: Jul 24, 2025 12:00PM EDTOur summer book auction features a wide array of modern first editions, signed books, artwork, collectibles, and literary rarities across all genres and at all collecting levels. Prices Realized
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Entertainment, Toys & Collectibles
Start: Jul 10, 2025 12:00PM EDTRare lithographs from iconic Hollywood hits will lead this sale. Also featured is a broad mix of collectibles including comic books, toys, Steiff, Star Wars toys, and Disneyana. Prices Realized
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The Salon de Magie Part IV
Start: Jun 21, 2025 12:00PM EDTOur fourth sale from Ken Klosterman's fabled "museum down the mineshaft" will be a broad cross-section of conjuring collectibles. Prices Realized
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Contemporary, Fine, Folk and Outsider Art
Start: Jun 05, 2025 12:00PM EDTOur Contemporary, Fine, Folk, and Outsider Art sale features works from all time periods and categories. Prices Realized
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Circus, Sideshow & Carnival
Start: May 22, 2025 12:00PM EDTOur annual auction of circus, sideshow, and carnival collectibles takes place this May. Highlights include magnificent and rare lithographs for Buffalo Bill, Ringling Brothers, and many European circuses Prices Realized
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Houdiniana & Magic Memorabilia
Start: Apr 26, 2025 12:00PM EDTRelics from the shows and life of the world's most famous magician - Harry Houdini - are set to cross the block this April. Vintage stone lithographs, "challenges" made to Houdini, autographs, and a remarkable link between Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle will be highlights of the sale. Prices Realized
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Celestial & Terrestrial Exploration
Start: Apr 18, 2025 12:00PM EDTThis auction will feature fine books and documents regarding human exploration of the land, sea, and sky. Prices Realized
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Advertising & Coin-Op
Start: Apr 10, 2025 12:00PM EDTOur first spring sale is set to feature a large and diverse advertising collection, including porcelain, litho tin, and hand-painted trade signs of all types from a noted Midwest collection. Prices Realized
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Vintage Posters
Start: Mar 20, 2025 12:00PM EDTOur spring poster auction will showcase a full range of poster collecting categories in more than 500 lots, from travel, advertising, and music to sports, magic, theater, and design, as well as a selection of pictorial maps. Prices Realized
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Punks, Monsters, Smut & Madmen: A Countercultural Cross-Section
Start: Mar 06, 2025 12:00PM ESTFrom the hallowed halls of CBGBs to the mondo-trasho seats of American grindhouses, this countercultural offering will feature everything from the ridiculous to the sublime. Prices Realized
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The Collection of Edwin A. Dawes Part III
Start: Feb 15, 2025 12:00PM ESTOur final single-owner sale from the Dawes collection is rich with conjuring curiosa of all types, including early broadsides, memorabilia from the Theatre Robert-Houdin, early and important magic textbooks, unusual Victorian apparatus, and bright stone lithographs from the golden age of the art. Prices Realized
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Wunderkammer: The Freeman & Fugate Oddities Collection
Start: Feb 01, 2025 12:00PM ESTGhosts, ghouls, taxidermy, spirit photos, "talking boards," circus memorabilia, and oddities of all types will cross the block this February at Potter & Potter. Featuring selections from the personal collection of James Freeman and Kate Fugate, this sale promises to be equal parts bizarre, amazing, and remarkable. Prices Realized
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Micro Magic and More
Start: Jan 25, 2025 12:00PM ESTMiniature miracles from the workshop of Eddy Taytelbaum and the factories of the Tenyo Co. will be paired with vintage magic books, posters, and ephemera in our first sale of 2025. Among the highlights in the latter categories are the fabled magic and mentalism notebooks of Doctor Stanley Jaks. Prices Realized
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Fine Books & Manuscripts, and the Dornish Collection of Children's Book Art
Start: Jan 16, 2025 12:00PM ESTThis auction featured rare books, fine bindings and sets, and autographs and manuscripts, one session will be devoted to the vast collection of original children's book artwork and signed books from the legendary collection of Dr. J. Robert and Alice Dornish. Prices Realized
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Winter Magic Auction: featuring the Collection of Max Maven
Start: Dec 14, 2024 12:00PM ESTOrson Welles wrote of Max Maven: "Yours is the most original mind in magic." This December, Potter & Potter is pleased to offer the very sources of information that helped supply that original mind, in the form of Max Maven's extensive collection and working library. Prices Realized
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Celebrity Photos & Art from the Beverly Hills Hilton/Contemporary, Fine, Outsider Folk Art
Start: Dec 04, 2024 12:00PM ESTOur December Art sale features a special group of Milton Greene photographs and stunning artwork from the collection and corridors of the Beverly Hilton. The second session is Art in all categories. Prices Realized
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Fine Books & Manuscripts
Start: Nov 21, 2024 12:00PM ESTPotter & Potter is proud to offer fine books and rare manuscripts in our November 21 sale. We will have important books, including modern firsts, fine bindings, antiquarian, illustrated and children's books, original artwork, maps; as well as fine letters and manuscripts. Prices Realized
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Vintage Posters
Start: Nov 07, 2024 12:00PM ESTOur fall poster sale features vintage paper advertising in many categories. From masterworks by Mucha to travel, war & propaganda, we will offer over 500 lots from a range of well-known designers, printers, and publishers. Prices Realized
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