Winter Magic Auction
Sat, Dec 16, 2017 11:00AM EST - Sun, Dec 17, 2017 11:00AM EST
Lot 429
Houdini Lettergram to Charles Carter (Carter the Great), Initialed “HH”.
Estimate: $700 - $900
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Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weisz). Houdini Lettergram to Charles Carter (Carter the Great), Initialed “HH”. Los Angeles, 1923. On a half-page of Houdini’s pictorial lettergram stationery, expressing disappointment that the two “did not have a chance to have a long chat” in San Francisco, and relating the points of a recent conversation with Mrs. Buck regarding the price of a piece of apparatus, and the likelihood that Howard Thurston would be in Los Angeles in the summer. Signed “HH”, the postscript and underlined word (“double disappointment”) also in Houdini’s hand. The “Mrs. Buck” referred to was a niece of Harry Kellar’s whom the magician lived with at the end of his life. The piece of apparatus Carter desired was likely one from Kellar’s collection.
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