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    Coin-Op & Advertising by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Coin-Op & Advertising

    Start: Aug 28, 2019 08:30PM EDT

    This sale features coin operated machines in all categories: arcade, vending, and slots. The auction will also feature vintage advertising, toys, and a strong selection of Black Americana from the lifetime collection of Allen Liffman. Prices Realized

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    Summer Magic Auction - Online Only by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Summer Magic Auction - Online Only

    Start: Jul 23, 2019 09:30PM EDT

    Our Summer Magic auction includes over 200 lots of choice vintage and contemporary magic collectibles. Prices Realized

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    Automata: Life & Other Illusions by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Automata: Life & Other Illusions

    Start: Jul 21, 2019 09:30PM EDT

    This sale features the automaton collection of Michael Kam. Over 150 vintage and modern mechanical marvels will go on the block, including rare and unusual examples by Vichy, Lambert, Phalibois, and their contemporaries. Prices Realized

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    Pop Culture by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Pop Culture

    Start: Jun 26, 2019 11:30AM EDT

    From vintage toys to comics, movie posters to trains, radio premiums to music memorabilia, sports cards to pedal cars, this sale features hundreds of lots - and thousands of items - in virtually every genre of twentieth century pop culture. Prices Realized

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    The Collection of Jim Rawlins Part II by Potter & Potter Auctions

    The Collection of Jim Rawlins Part II

    Start: May 25, 2019 03:30AM EDT

    This is the second of four sales from the important and historically significant magic collection of Jim Rawlins. Highlights of the sale include memorabilia from the careers of Alexander Herrmann, Harry Houdini, Edgar Bergen, and their contemporaries. Prices Realized

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    Spring Magic Auction by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Spring Magic Auction

    Start: Apr 30, 2019 03:30AM EDT

    On May 18th Potter & Potter will offer some 200 choice lots of magic collectibles in an online-only auction. A mix of ephemera, magic sets, large lots of vintage apparatus, and books and posters will be offered for sale. Prices Realized

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    Vintage Posters by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Vintage Posters

    Start: Apr 15, 2019 09:30PM EDT

    Our May 22 vintage poster auction features hundreds of important vintage posters. The majority of the sale is composed of mid-century travel posters, including many fine airline posters advertising TWA, American, and United Airlines, and features many noted designers of the era. Prices Realized

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    The Magic Collection of Ray Goulet by Potter & Potter Auctions

    The Magic Collection of Ray Goulet

    Start: Mar 28, 2019 09:30PM EDT

    A well-loved collector, publisher, producer, performer, and friend to all magicians, Ray Goulet amassed one of the great American collections of conjuring memorabilia. Prices Realized

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    Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue

    Start: Mar 01, 2019 04:30AM EST

    Over the course of several decades, Tom Blue has assembled one of the most impressive gambling collections in the United States.

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    The Magic Collection of Jim Rawlins by Potter & Potter Auctions

    The Magic Collection of Jim Rawlins

    Start: Jan 25, 2019 10:30PM EST

    Our inaugural magic auction of 2019 was the first of four sales from the collection of Jim Rawlins, a devoted student of magic and its history, who spent nearly three decades building an impressive, important, and diverse collection. Prices Realized

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    Fine Books and Manuscripts: Featuring Important Chicago Memorabilia by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Fine Books and Manuscripts: Featuring Important Chicago Memorabilia

    Start: Jan 10, 2019 06:30AM EST

    We start the new year with an auction of books and manuscripts focused on Chicago, celebrating the city’s art and architecture, literature, sports, notable inhabitants, and historic events from the Great Fire to the present. Prices Realized

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    Winter Magic Auction by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Winter Magic Auction

    Start: Dec 01, 2018 06:30AM EST

    On December 15th Potter & Potter will offer some 200 choice magic collectibles in an online-only auction. Posters, books, ephemera, and magic sets - perennial holiday favorites of yesteryear - will be included. Prices Realized

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    Vintage Travel Posters by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Vintage Travel Posters

    Start: Nov 09, 2018 05:30AM EST

    Our December auction features hundreds of important vintage travel posters. Prices Realized

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    Freakatorium: The Collection of Johnny Fox by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Freakatorium: The Collection of Johnny Fox

    Start: Oct 11, 2018 11:00PM EDT

    Alive! On the Inside! Potter & Potter is pleased to present the over-the-top, one-of-a-kind Barnumesque collection of renowned sword swallower, comedian, magician, and curiosity seeker Johnny Fox. Prices Realized

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    Houdiniana by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Houdiniana

    Start: Sep 19, 2018 09:12PM EDT

    Our October sale features the Houdini collection of John Bushey. Known as a true scholar and student of all things Houdini and escape related, John assembled one of the best collections of Houdini pitch books and related items in America. Prices Realized

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    Coin-Op & Advertising Auction by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Coin-Op & Advertising Auction

    Start: Aug 29, 2018 05:58AM EDT

    Our annual coin-op and advertising auction features jukeboxes, vending machines, arcade games, signs & figural advertising, slots and gambling machines, vintage toys, and much more. Prices Realized

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    Summer Magic Auction by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Summer Magic Auction

    Start: Jul 24, 2018 03:10AM EDT

    Our summer sale of magicana is set to include collectibles in all familiar categories, including vintage posters, apparatus, antiquarian books, and ephemera. Prices Realized

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    Fine Books & Manuscripts by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Fine Books & Manuscripts

    Start: Jun 26, 2018 08:30PM EDT

    Our summer book, manuscript, and memorabilia sale features several categories: historical documents and Americana, modern literature, science, math, and children's books, autographs, and periodicals. Prices Realized

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    The David Baldwin Magic Collection II by Potter & Potter Auctions

    The David Baldwin Magic Collection II

    Start: May 18, 2018 03:00AM EDT

    The second offering from David Baldwin's collection features automatons, magic apparatus (both vintage and modern), ephemera, Houdiniana, stone lithographs, broadsides, and mystery clocks. Prices Realized

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    Gambling Memorabilia by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Gambling Memorabilia

    Start: Apr 14, 2018 12:30AM EDT

    Our May Gambling Auction featured the collection of Bob Rosenberger. The sale included an array of truly scarce and rare material related to gambling, poker, playing cards, and other games of chance. Prices Realized

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    Spring Magic Auction by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Spring Magic Auction

    Start: Mar 31, 2018 03:30AM EDT

    Our spring sale of magic memorabilia features two recently-rediscovered Houdini scrapbooks, never before made available for public sale. In addition, the auction will include Houdiniana in a range of categories - glass slides, autographs, books, and photographs. Prices Realized

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    Entertainment Memorabilia by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Entertainment Memorabilia

    Start: Mar 07, 2018 05:30AM EST

    From hundreds of movie posters, to signed and glamour photographs, rare documents, to costumes, props, and personal relics, our April 7th sale will feature something for collectors at all levels, beginning and advanced alike. Prices Realized

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    The Magic Collection of John Daniel by Potter & Potter Auctions

    The Magic Collection of John Daniel

    Start: Mar 03, 2018 11:00AM EST

    Our first magic auction of 2018 features the collection of John Daniel. The consummate collector, Daniel was also a formidable performer, builder, mover and shaker in the magic world for decades. Prices Realized

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    Adelaide Herrmann and Company. Hindoo Magic. Do the Spirits Come Back? Thurston. Voice from the Great Beyond. Whispering Buddha. Thurston Presents Dante. Europe’s Magician in Thurston—Kellar Mysteries. Kellar The Great Magician. Nixon Checker Cabinet (Vari-Colored Checker Cabinet).
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    Fine Books & Manuscripts by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Fine Books & Manuscripts

    Start: Jan 27, 2018 11:00AM EST

    We lead off our first auction of the new year with an Americana session highlighted by troves of documents, books, memorabilia, and photographs related to the life and presidency of Harry S. Truman, most drawn directly from the never-before-seen files of one of his secretaries. Prices Realized

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    Neiman, Leroy. Tiger. Large Original Oil Painting. Lee Harvey Oswald’s Personally—Owned and Worn Dress Suit. Anheuser—Busch Brew’g Ass’n Export Beers. St. Louis, Mo. U.S.A. Robert Burns Signed Document, as Exciseman. Presidential Pardon Signed by John F. Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald Autograph Letter Signed, “Lee XX,” from His Wife to His Mother. Warren Commission Exhibit No. 185.

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