Houdiniana & The Davenport Magic Collection
Sat, Apr 9, 2016 11:00AM EDT - Sun, Apr 10, 2016 11:00AM EDT
Live Auction
Lot 126
Houdini, Harry. Houdini Newgate Prison Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Card. Piccadilly Circus W.
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
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Houdini, Harry. Houdini Newgate Prison Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Card. Piccadilly Circus W., St. PaulНs Ptg., 1904. Dark green folder, сHо stamped in gilt on front, enclosing a tri-fold Houdini holiday card bearing a half-tone portrait of Harry. Inside, Beatrice is shown in a prison cell at Newgate, сCaughtо in one scene and сFlownо in the other. 3 _ x 4 _о. Third panel cleanly separated, else very good. Rare. Accompanied by a 1949 envelope to R.R. Bush, the son of a guard at Newgate Prison who had befriended Houdini. сHarry Houdini and wife sent out their holiday compliments in the shape of an extremely near little folder containing three half tones of themselves and of a cell in Newgate Prison.о (The Sphinx, сBook Notes,о Vol. 3 No. 12 [Feb. 1905]). See next lot.
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