Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana

Our first book sale of the year features high spots in all categories. The sci–fi and horror session includes a near complete collection of Arkham House titles, many from the famous Richard Manney collection. Prices Realized

Coin-Op, Advertising & Breweriana

Our first auction of 2023 featured a host of coin operated machines in a range of collecting categories, from slots and trade stimulators to rare vending machines, and arcade games alike. Prices Realized

Winter Magic Auction

Our winter sale of magicana includes a diverse offering of magic apparatus from the collections of William Trotter, Jim DeLoach, and Bill Taylor, as well as choice Houdiniana, posters, and a strong selection of collectible and antiquarian books. Prices Realized

Fine & Outsider Art

Potter & Potter's inaugural Fine & Outsider Art sale featured prints, paintings, and mixed media works from Picasso, Chagall, and their contemporaries, as well as a diverse array of outsider art by Howard Finster, Mose Tolliver, and Purvis Young. Prices Realized

Historical Memorabilia & Americana

Our November sale features historical memorabilia and Americana in a diverse range of categories. Highlights include rare relics of the suffrage movement, civil rights ephemera and posters, early cased photographic images, and Civil War relics. Prices Realized

Salon de Magie: The Klosterman Collection Part III

Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana

Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition. Prices Realized

The Zweifel Circus Collection

Our September sale features the remarkable circus archives of John & Jan Zweifel. Lifelong circus fans and collectors, the Zweifels' archives were home to tens of thousands of documents, photographs, and relics, including correspondence and memorabilia, as well as circus and wild west costumes, posters, and banners. Prices Realized

Fall Magic Auction (Online-Only)

Our fall sale of magicana features 300 lots including an array of apparatus (both vintage and modern), ephemera, and collectible books, as well as the magic props and memorabilia from the career of the noted sleight-of-hand magician David Roth. Prices Realized

Vintage Posters

Over 700 vintage posters in a broad range of categories are featured in our summer sale, including American and international travel, advertising, pictorial maps, Art Nouveau, European design, art exhibition, classic sci-fi movie posters, theater, magic, and others. Prices Realized

Fine Books & Manuscripts (Online Only)

Our first Online–Only book sale of the year featured an array of titles and authors spanning several centuries and categories. Included were several archives of ephemera, large libraries of hard–boiled fiction and modern literature, as well as numerous signed volumes by major authors. Prices Realized

Magic: The Collection of Jim DeLoach

Potter & Potter is excited to present hundreds of fine pieces of vintage and modern magic apparatus from the lifetime collection of Jim DeLoach. Cornerstones of the collection include props by Okito, Collectors Workshop, Norm Nielsen, Abbott's, Petrie & Lewis, and other prominent magic manufacturers of the last century. Prices Realized

Pop Culture, Toys, Disneyana & Collectibles

A cornucopia of American pop culture memorabilia is represented in this sale, from rock n’ roll memorabilia, movie posters, and autographs, to an extensive collection of James Bond and spy toys, premiums, and memorabilia. Collectibles including Disneyana and Steiff will also be featured. Prices Realized

Houdiniana & Magic Memorabilia

Our May magic sale features Houdiniana that has never before come to market. From the earliest known photograph of Houdini and Hardeen performing a magic trick, to Houdini family heirlooms, scrapbooks, and more, this offering is one not to be missed. Prices Realized

Enter the Matrix: The Wachowski Collection

Potter & Potter is excited to announce this auction of memorabilia, props, awards, and concept art spanning the filmography of the celebrated directors, including items from The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Sense8, Jupiter Ascending, and Cloud Atlas. All items are drawn directly from the collection of the Wachowskis. Prices Realized

Circus, Sideshow & Oddities

Our annual auction of Circus, Sideshow, and Oddities features the second offering of rare photographs from the remarkable collection of Gary Bart, one of the most significant collections of its kind in private hands. Prices Realized

Fine Literature & Modern Firsts

This sale features over 200 lots in literary categories spanning both the 19th and 20th centuries. Prices Realized

Salon de Magie: The Klosterman Collection Part II

Our second sale from Ken Klosterman's world famous collection of magicana, The Salon de Magie, is slated for March 26, 2022. Prices Realized

Gambling, Playing Cards, Coin-Op, & Advertising

A two-day auction kicks off our spring schedule. The first day will feature the collection of the late Robert Eisenstadt, who amassed thousands of casino and gambling chips including numerous rarities and uncommon sets that will be offered fresh to the market. Prices Realized

Fine Books & Manuscripts

Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779. Prices Realized

Micro-Magic

Our first magic auction of the year will be a first for Potter & Potter - a sale of "micro magic" - clever and collectible close-up magic apparatus. Featuring nearly-comprehensive offerings of props made by Eddy Taytelbaum, Alan Warner, and the Tenyo company, over 350 lots will cross the block. Prices Realized

Vintage Posters

Including travel by air, rail, and sea; pictorial maps; war and propaganda; advertising; concert; winter sports; German, Swiss, and European design; Art Nouveau; magic and circus; and theatrical. Prices Realized

Winter Magic Auction

Our December sale features the collection of Bob Rossi. While Mr. Rossi was an ardent collector of books and manuscripts, his main focus was memorabilia from the career of Joseph Dunninger, the "master mind of modern mystery." Prices Realized

Photography & Ephemera

Highlights of our November sale - which features a diverse array of photographs and printed ephemera - include mugshots, baseball ephemera, books, over 100,000 vintage postcards in a large range of categories, and an important and substantial session of vintage and modern photography. Prices Realized