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    Winter Magic Auction by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Winter Magic Auction

    Start: Dec 16, 2017 11:00AM EST

    Our December sale will feature magic collectibles in a wide range of categories. From uncommon Chung Ling Soo posters to early broadsides, a selection of rare and unusual Taytelbaum-made tricks, choice ephemera, collectible apparatus, and antiquarian books. Prices Realized

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    The Expert at the Card Table. Alexander. The Man Who Knows. Signed Window Card. Chung Ling Soo. And His Ten Assistants. Chung Ling Soo. The Marvelous Chinese Conjurer. Chung Ling Soo. A Few Facial Expressions During the Fire Trick. Chung Ling Soo. The World’s Greatest Conjurer.
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    Circus - Sideshow - Wild West by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Circus - Sideshow - Wild West

    Start: Nov 18, 2017 11:00AM EST

    From Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey to Buffalo Bill, sideshow banners, carnival rides, carousel horses and more, our November sale will feature relics from the "greatest shows on earth." The auction will include posters, broadsides, costumes, personal memorabilia, carousel horses, carnival rides, Kelty photos, and more. Prices Realized

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    Pair of Antique French Carousel Lions. P.T. Barnum’s Greatest Show on Earth and the Great London Circus…Jumbo. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. Captain Costentenus the Greek Albanian. Tattooed from Head to Foot. Some of the Famous Generals of the U.S. Army. Hon. W.F. Cody. Chief of Scouts. Guide for U.S. Army.
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    Blackstone Magic Auction by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Blackstone Magic Auction

    Start: Oct 28, 2017 11:00AM EDT

    Potter & Potter's October sale features relics from the career of Harry Blackstone, Sr. In a career spanning some five decades, Blackstone cemented his reputation as the leading stage magician of his generation. Prices Realized

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    Original Cartoon Album, “The Rubaiyat of Omar Blackstone,” With Art By 26 Editorial Cartoonists and Strip Artists. Houdini’s “Handcuff King Breaker” Lilly Iron. Harry Blackstone Sr.’s Performance-Worn Tailcoat. Harry Blackstone and Peter Bouton Scrapbook. Early Scrapbook of Blackstone the Magician Photographs. Harry Blackstone Sr. Financial Records, 1920—50.
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    Coin-Op, Toys & Advertising by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Coin-Op, Toys & Advertising

    Start: Sep 09, 2017 11:00AM EDT

    Our September auction features choice coin-operated machines, toys and vintage advertising. Over 250 vintage machines in a wide variety of categories will go on the block, including vending, slots & gambling, vintage arcade machines, and more. Prices Realized

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    Standard Gum Machine Works. 1 Cent Blinkey Eye Gum Vendor. Pope Automatic Co. (?) 5 Cent Cigar Vendor. Automatic Sales Co. 1 Cent Pepsin Tab Gum Vendor. National Novelty Co. 1 Cent O-Pee-Chee Three Column Tall Case Chewing Gum Vendor. Chicago Peanut Machine. National Vending Machine Co. Wilbur’s 1 Cent Chocolate Vendor.
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    Sleight of Hand - The Jeff Busby Collection by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Sleight of Hand - The Jeff Busby Collection

    Start: Aug 19, 2017 11:00AM EDT

    Highlights from the magic collection of Jeff Busby include extensive archives of correspondence and ephemera related to the great sleight-of-hand artists of the twentieth century: Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, Max Malini, Ross Bertram, Ed Marlo, Larry Jennings, Paul Fox, Michael Skinner, Faucett Ross, Cardini, and many more. Prices Realized

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    Important archive of Dai Vernon - Faucett Ross Letters. Important Archive of Correspondence from Charlie Miller to Faucett Ross. Bertram, Ross. File of Correspondence to Faucett Ross. Csuri, Frank. The Csuri Notes [Original Typescripts]. Hugard, Jean and Fred Braue. Archive of Over 125 Letters. Alexander The Man Who Knows.
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    Fine Books & Manuscripts by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Fine Books & Manuscripts

    Start: Jul 08, 2017 11:00AM EDT

    Potter & Potter's inaugural book auction will feature printed and manuscript Americana, modern first editions, travel and exploration, natural history, fine bindings and continental books from the 16th century to present day. Prices Realized

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    [Declaration of Independence] Peter Force Engraving Garfield, James. Partially Printed Document Signed. [Crime] Purvis, Melvin. Extensive Archive of Over 100 Letters…FBI Memorabilia. Gibson, Walter [Grant, Maxwell, pseud.]. Author's Own Complete Run of The Shadow. [Great Chicago Fire] Chicago Post Extra. "Chicago on Fire!" October 9, 1871. Warhol, Andy. Andy Warhol’s Children’s Book.
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    The Grossman-Nicholson Magic Collection Part 2 by Potter & Potter Auctions

    The Grossman-Nicholson Magic Collection Part 2

    Start: Jun 10, 2017 11:00AM EDT

    This auction features the second offering of rarities from the Grossman-Nicholson magic collection. Prices Realized

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    Collection of Lantern Slides from Houdini’s Spiritualism Lecture. Important File of Conjuring Notebooks. Magician Karl Germain’s “Work” Trunk and Magic Apparatus. The Expert at the Card Table. Powell, Frederick Eugene. Important Archive of Hundreds of Letters. Autograph Letter Signed, “Robert Houdin,” to a Book Dealer.
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    Gambling Memorabilia Day 2 by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Gambling Memorabilia Day 2

    Start: May 07, 2017 11:00AM EDT

    Our May auction features gambling memorabilia in a wide range of categories, from a first edition of Erdnase's famous book on cheating at cards, to slot machines and trade stimulators, to the world-class playing card collection of Rhonda and Bob Hawes.  Prices Realized

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    Mills Novelty Co. “The Trader” 5 Cent Cast Iron Cigar Trade Stimulator on Wood base. Watling Mfg. Co. 5 Cent Upright Dewey Slot Machine. Bally Manufacturing Co. 5 Cent Reliance Dice Slot Machine. Mills Novelty Co. “Jumbo Success” Cast Iron Trade Stimulator. O.D. Jennings & Co. One Dollar Prospector Slot Machine in Original Wood Floor Stand. Mills 5 Cent Gun Slinger Slot Machine on Metal Base.
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    Gambling Memorabilia Day 1 by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Gambling Memorabilia Day 1

    Start: May 06, 2017 11:00AM EDT

    Our May auction features gambling memorabilia in a wide range of categories, from a first edition of Erdnase's famous book on cheating at cards, to slot machines and trade stimulators, to the world-class playing card collection of Rhonda and Bob Hawes.  Prices Realized

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    Goodall & Son Hand Painted Transformation Pack. Erdnase, S.W. The Expert at the Card Table. Jacquemin Gringonneur Playing Cards. Antique Hand Painted Pack of Playing Cards. Jaz. H. Ford “Decatur” Playing Cards. A.H. Caffee Comical Political Playing Cards.
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    Spring Magic Auction by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Spring Magic Auction

    Start: Apr 08, 2017 11:00AM EDT

    Our spring auction features magic memorabilia, books, posters, and apparatus for beginning and advanced collectors alike. Highlights include a brooch presented to Bess Houdini by Russian royalty, Carl Waring Jones correspondence, and three pages of rhyming verse hand written by Harry Houdini. Prices Realized

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    Bess Houdini's Diamond and Gemstone Brooch Satyr Head Automaton. Pinchbeck, William Frederick. The Expositor; or, Many Mysteries Unravelled. Kellar in His Latest Mystery. Self Decapitation. Massive Collection of Over 700 Conjuring Postcards, Including RPPCs, Some Signed. Maskelyne, Nevil. The Philosopher’s Stone. Egyptian Hall.
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    Movie & Music Memorabilia by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Movie & Music Memorabilia

    Start: Mar 11, 2017 10:00AM EST

    Our latest auction brings a variety of entertainment related items up to the block. Included are posters, photographs, autographs, film reels, guitars, and much, much more.

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    The Lady from Shanghai. An Evening Gown and Shawl Owned and Likely Worn by Marilyn Monroe. Set of Four Warhol Photographs. A Mary Pickford Owned Dress. Dracula. The Return of Chandu.
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    The Golden Age of Magic Posters • The Nielsen Collection Part II by Potter & Potter Auctions

    The Golden Age of Magic Posters • The Nielsen Collection Part II

    Start: Feb 04, 2017 11:00AM EST

    We are proud to announce the greatly anticipated follow up to last years highly successful June auction. Prices Realized

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    HOUDINI, HARRY (EHRICH WEISS). Houdini Presents His Own Original Invention. The Greatest Sensational Mystery Ever Attempted i Kellar, Harry (Heinrich Keller). Kellar’s Startling Wonder. The Cassadaga Propaganda. THURSTON, HOWARD. Kellar’s Successor. Thurston. CHUNG LING SOO (WILLIAM ELLSWORTH ROBINSON). Chung Ling Soo. Marvelous Chinese Conjuror HERRMANN, LEON. Herrmann The Great. HOUDINI, HARRY (EHRICH WEISS). Houdini. King of Cards.
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    Winter Magic Sale by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Winter Magic Sale

    Start: Dec 03, 2016 11:00AM EST

    In our final sale of the year we offer the remarkable library of the late Rex Conklin, whose collection is highlighted by rare blow books, a copy of Dean’s Hocus Pocus among other antiquarian titles, and unique signed copies of books by Houdini bearing related photographs and ephemera. Prices Realized

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    Chung Ling Soo: A Gift from the Gods Clown Magician Musical Automaton The Discovery of Witchcraft Antique Pair of Palmer Handcuffs from The Houdini Collection Chung Ling Soo. Marvellous Chinese Conjurer Chung Ling Soo: The Two Mysteries. Ancient and Modern
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    The Magic Collection of David Baldwin by Potter & Potter Auctions

    The Magic Collection of David Baldwin

    Start: Oct 29, 2016 12:00PM EDT

    Our October sale features choice automata, magic memorabilia, apparatus, posters, and books from the collection of David M. Baldwin. Sale highlights include Robert-Houdin mystery clocks, Lambert-made automatons, and a large portion of the Raymond/Gibson collection of magic memorabilia and apparatus. Prices Realized

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    Robert-Houdin Triple Mystery Clock Mandarin Magician Automaton Clock Robert-Houdin Electric Pendulum Clock Robert-Houdin Mystery Clock Jack in the Box, or The Learned Judge (Okito) Clown Magician Automaton
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    Illustration Art & Vintage Posters by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Illustration Art & Vintage Posters

    Start: Sep 25, 2016 12:00PM EDT

    The second day of our summer antiques sale features posters with unusual artwork and designs advertising products, automobiles, entertainers and shows, as well as wartime propaganda posters, and original Mather Work Incentive poster artwork. Prices Realized

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    Lucifer, Treurspel Van Vondel A La Place Clichy, Jouets Etrennes Futuristic Cityscape with Rocket Ship Port Loterie National Theatre Comique! Trianon Spectable Bal Concert
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    Toys, Advertising & Coin-Op by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Toys, Advertising & Coin-Op

    Start: Sep 24, 2016 12:00PM EDT

    Our annual summer antiques sale includes a wide assortment of motorcycle and automobile toys, mechanical and still banks, vintage ray guns, board games, pinball machines, fortune telling machines and vending machines, mechanical musical instruments, advertising signs, Coca Cola-related items, and slot machines. Prices Realized

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    Five Cent Mack Cigar Vending Machine Cast Iron Carnival Shooting Gallery Automatic Hostess Juke Box 1080 Wurlitzer Juke Box Five Cent O.D. Jenning's ñBronze Chiefî Console Slot Machine Ten Cent O.D. Jenning's ñBronze Chiefî Console Slot Machine
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    Magic - Old and New - Conjuring from the 16-20th Century by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Magic - Old and New - Conjuring from the 16-20th Century

    Start: Aug 27, 2016 11:00AM EDT

    From early books on conjuring, to magnificent prints, engravings, posters, apparatus and automatons, including modern collectibles (hence the "Old & New" title), our August 27th sale includes items for every collector, beginner and advanced alike. Prices Realized

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    Virgil (Virgil Harris Mulkey). The Great Virgil's Okito Checker Cabinet. Louisville: Okito/Redmon, ca. 1952. ÒClub sizeÓ Checker Cabinet for the mag Clarke, Sidney W. The Annals of Conjuring. London: George Johnson, 1929. Author's Copy of the First Edition. Limited to four copies printed by the aut Vernon, Dai. Dai Vernon's Linking Rings. North Hollywood: Merv Taylor, ca. 1955. Set of ten heavy 10Ó Òorb eternalÓ chrome plated rings owned and u [Houdini, Harry] Silhouette of Harry Houdini Cut by Dai Vernon. N.p., ca. 1920. Scissor-cut profile portrait of Houdini in jacket and bowtie. Signed b Wiegleb, Johann Christian. Die Naturliche Magie. Berlin, 1789 Ð 1801. Contemporary half calf with marbled sides, spines ruled and lettered in gilt. C Houdini, Harry (Erich Weisz). Houdini Packing Case Escape Challenge. Glasgow: Crawford, 1910. Letterpress broadside on which the engineers of a Scotti
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    Three Ring Auction by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Three Ring Auction

    Start: Jul 23, 2016 11:00AM EDT

    Included in this auction will be carousel horses, sideshow banners, circus posters and lithographs, Buffalo Bill and wild west memorabilia and ephemera, Coney Island Amusement Park relics, and much more! Photographs, autographs, wagons, banners, wood carvings, signs, and other fantastic objects all go on the auction block! Prices Realized

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    C.W. Parker Patriotic Grand Jubilee Carousel Horse. Penny Arcade Fortune Teller Machine. Cleopatra. Temple of Fate! Consult the Oracle! Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World. The Duel of the Cannoneers Light Battery Artillery Exercises. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Buffalo Bill's Wild West Al. G. Barnes Wild Animal Circus Wagon Gilt Carving.
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    The Golden Age of Magic Posters: Nielsen Collection Pt. 1 by Potter & Potter Auctions

    The Golden Age of Magic Posters: Nielsen Collection Pt. 1

    Start: Jun 25, 2016 11:00AM EDT

    Celebrating the "golden age" of the magic posters from 1880 - 1930 and beyond, this sale features over 400 pieces from the extensive collection of Norm Nielsen. Unique, rare, and unusual images will go on the block, along with classic and iconic designs. Prices Realized

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    Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weisz). Houdini Presents His Own Original Invention. The Greatest Sensational Mystery Ever Attempted In This or Any Other Age. Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weisz). Houdini In The Grim Game. Thurston, Howard. Thurston. Kellar’s Successor. Invested with the Mantle of Magic. Kellar, Harry (Heinrich Keller). Kellar’s New Wonder. Oh! Kellar, Harry (Heinrich Keller). Kellar and his Perplexing Cabinet Mysteries. Downs, T. Nelson. T. Nelson Downs. King of Koins.
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    Two of a Kind: Gambling Memorabilia & Rare Playing Cards by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Two of a Kind: Gambling Memorabilia & Rare Playing Cards

    Start: May 21, 2016 11:00AM EDT

    This year's offering includes many special items: a wide array of vintage poker chips, truly rare books on cheating at cards, unusual holdout devices, many ivory objects, salesman's samples, slot machines, prints & graphics, folk art with a gambling theme, and much more. Prices Realized

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    Will & Finck Gambling Wheel. San Francisco, 818 Market St., ca. 1900. The only known example, original polychrome-painted, walnut wall-mounted saloon A. Dougherty Army & Navy Civil War Playing Cards. The Monitor and The Merrimac. New York Bonville, Frank. The Little Secrets. Chicago Ritter, F.R. Combined Treatise on Advantage Card Playing and Draw Poker. Author, 1905. Light green cloth, gilt stamped. Profusely illustrated with pho Erdnase, S.W. The Expert at the Card Table. [Chicago] Coca-Cola Advertising Playing Cards. Chicago
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    Houdiniana & The Davenport Magic Collection by Potter & Potter Auctions

    Houdiniana & The Davenport Magic Collection

    Start: Apr 09, 2016 11:00AM EDT

    Our April 9th auction is a two-part magic extravaganza. The first section will feature choice memorabilia related to the most famous magician and escape artist the world has ever known. Prices Realized

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    Robert-Houdin Glass Column Mystery Clock. Paris, circa 1850. A transparent glass 5о dial in round br Harry Houdini Castle Lock Display Board. Being a collection of twenty-six twelfth century European c [Houdini, Harry] Archive of Correspondence To Houdini From His First Manager, Martin Beck, Drawn Fro Houdini, Harry. Massive Scrapbook Compiled by Houdini Of His Own Publicity and Press Clippings. 1900 Houdini, Harry and H.P. Lovecraft (ghostwriter). The Cancer of Superstition. Circa 1926. Collection Locked Double Slates Used by Remigius Weiss to Expose Spirit Medium Henry Slade, as Profiled by Harr

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