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Houdiniana & Magic Memorabilia
Start: Apr 13, 2024 12:00PM EDTOur April sale of magicana features rarities from the life and career of the greatest magician to ever tread the boards: Harry Houdini. Posters and playbills will be offered along with books and autographs of great rarity - including several unique items Prices Realized
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Entertainment, Toys & Collectibles
Start: Mar 28, 2024 12:00PM EDTThis eclectic sale will include Hollywood memorabilia featuring silent film posters and material related to comedian Harry Langdon; an extensive collection of science-fiction and horror lobby cards; vintage toys and pop culture memorabilia from the 20th century; and other collectibles. Prices Realized
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Ephemera, Americana, & Historical Memorabilia
Start: Mar 07, 2024 12:00PM ESTWe are pleased to announce our March 2024 Ephemera auction, featuring the collection of Mark Rucker. Photographs, trade cards, souvenir advertising fans, baseball memorabilia, and a kaleidoscopic range of printed paper ephemera of all kinds will cross the auction block. Prices Realized
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The Collection of Edwin A Dawes, Part I
Start: Feb 24, 2024 12:00PM ESTEqual parts scholar, author, historian, professor, and magician, Edwin Dawes was a singular figure in the world of magic and magicians, and the most prolific chronicler of conjuring history in the twentieth century. Prices Realized
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A Study in Sherlock, Part II: Including the Collections of Robert Hess and Roy Pilot
Start: Feb 15, 2024 12:00PM ESTWe are pleased to announce the second session of Robert Hess's Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle collection. High spots will include the only known copy of the first English edition of The Lost World in original dust jacket and Sidney Paget's personal robe. Prices Realized
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Online Winter Magic
Start: Jan 27, 2024 12:00PM ESTThis auction will feature contemporary collectible magic props as well as antique apparatus. A strong selection from modern makers will cross the block, including effects from the workshops of Michael Baker, Mikame Craft, Abbott's, Nielsen, and many more. Prices Realized
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Printed Books & Manuscripts (Online Only)
Start: Jan 18, 2024 12:00PM ESTWe begin the new year with a large offering of material spanning several categories, including Americana, modern firsts, bibliographies, hunting & fishing, travel, and more. Prices Realized
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Golden Age and Pre-Code Horror: The Comic Book Collection of Stephen J. Farber
Start: Jan 11, 2024 12:00PM ESTWe are pleased to ring in the New Year with the sale of this important comic book collection featuring many early issues, chief among them Captain America #1 and Adventures of Spider-Man #1. Prices Realized
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Select Secrets
Start: Dec 09, 2023 12:00PM ESTFrom J.N. Maskelyne's toolbox to rare Houdiniana (posters, handcuffs, autographs), David Devant's passport to a magic trick that helped predict the outbreak of WWII, Robert Harbin's sketch for the Zig-Zag Girl and Al Delage's Sub Trunk, our December sale of magicana was a closely-curated offering of real rarities. Prices Realized
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Contemporary, Outsider, Folk & Fine Art
Start: Dec 06, 2023 12:00PM ESTOur Contemporary, Outsider, Folk, and Fine Art sale featured works from all time periods and categories. Contemporary highlights included works by Paul Jenkins, Lucio Fontana, and Joan Miro. Chicago artists represented were John Kearney, Zani Jacobsen, and Leroy Neiman. Prices Realized
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Lewis Carroll and Alice: The Collection of Stephen and Nancy Farber
Start: Nov 30, 2023 12:00PM ESTFor nearly four decades, the Farbers were "mad as a hatter," collecting everything related to Alice in Wonderland. The Farbers had a deep fascination for the many translations of the work, chief among them perhaps the most important: the "original Alice's copy" of Nabokov's Russian translation of Alice. Prices Realized
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Vintage Posters
Start: Nov 10, 2023 12:00PM ESTOur fall auction of vintage posters covered a waterfront of categories, from vintage travel and advertising lithographs, to entertainment, propaganda, and modern design. The first half of the sale featured iconic posters and pictorial maps from the golden age of air and rail travel. Prices Realized
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The Ricky Jay Collection Part II
Start: Oct 28, 2023 12:00PM EDTUnusual relics were the hallmark of Ricky Jay's storied collection. This second auction from his archives features an astonishing array of the fantastic, the funny, and the flabbergasting. Prices Realized
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Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition: the Collection of Chet Ross
Start: Oct 12, 2023 12:00PM EDTWe are pleased to announce the sale of Chet Ross's Japanese Antarctic Expedition collection. Ross authored the first and only bibliography about the expedition, discovering over 50 publications related to Shirase and the JAE which now for the first time are coming across the auction block. Prices Realized
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Coin-Op & Advertising
Start: Sep 22, 2023 12:00PM EDTThis sale featured a wide range of machines, including scarce examples in the vending and arcade categories, along with trade stimulators to slot machines of every description, dating from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. Prices Realized
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Vintage & Modern Magic
Start: Aug 23, 2023 12:00PM EDTHighlights of our August sale included a rare one-sheet poster advertising Servais LeRoy, a strong offering of Houdiniana, including inscribed and signed books, an assortment of magic books, and rare ephemera. Prices Realized
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Firsts: The Library of Robin and Kathryn Smiley
Start: Aug 17, 2023 12:00PM EDTWe are pleased to announce the sale of Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine's co-Publishers and Editors, Robin and Kathryn Smiley's collection of modern firsts of literature, mystery & detective fiction, and western literature. Prices Realized
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Circus, Sideshow & Oddities
Start: Jul 29, 2023 12:00PM EDTOur annual sale of the unusual, the amazing, and the bizarre featured a wide range of amazing antique objects, from classic vintage lithographs (and the maquettes used to design them), to remarkable cabinet cards and photographs, sideshow banners, and fairground art, including carousel animals and horses. Prices Realized
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Outsider, Folk and Fine Art
Start: Jun 28, 2023 12:00PM EDTOur June auction of Outsider, Folk and Fine Art featured a rare canvas work by Chicago street artist Lee Godie, works by Finster, Sudduth, Tolliver, Willis, and many other outsider stars. The auction also featured sideshow banners, carousel animals, American folk art, quilts and eccentric anonymous paintings and sculptures. Prices Realized
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Summer Magic Auction
Start: Jun 17, 2023 12:00PM EDTOur summer sale was an extravaganza of vintage and modern magic apparatus, featuring further selections from the collections of Jim Deloach and William Trotter. Rarities from the shops of P&L, Abbott's, Collector's Workshop, Thayer, Okito, and others will cross the block. Prices Realized
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Fine Books & Manuscripts, including The Ronald K. Siegel Collection
Start: Jun 01, 2023 12:00PM EDTOur summer book sale featured the important collection of drug literature from the esteemed psychopharmacologist, Ronald K. Siegel. Prices Realized
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Gambling Memorabilia
Start: May 18, 2023 12:00PM EDTPotter & Potter's annual gambling memorabilia auction featured a vast array of material in all branches of the hobby, from scarce playing cards, to books on cards and cheating, and thousands of casino and poker chips and sets. Prices Realized
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A Study in Sherlock: The Curious Collection of Robert Hess Part I
Start: Apr 20, 2023 12:00PM EDTThis was the first sale from Robert Hess's collection of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle. High spots in every category related to these two subjects included original illustration art, first editions, signed photos, and archives of letters. Prices Realized
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Houdiniana
Start: Apr 08, 2023 12:00PM EDTFrom remarkable unpublished personal documents and props from his storied career, to personal relics from Houdini's home in Harlem, our April sale of Houdiniana was an offering of historical significance. Prices Realized
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