Take a look at Quicker than the Eye, Potter & Potter's retail division. Shop now for vintage magic, gambling, circus, and oddities. Our inventory includes used, rare, and out-of-print books, along with vintage magic posters, photographs, magic tricks, playing cards, and more.

Our May auction was composed of mid-century travel posters, including many fine airline posters advertising TWA, American, and United Airlines, many from noted designers of the era. The sale was rounded out by a fine selection of movie, magic, theatrical, advertising, and exhibition posters, as well as French posters by Cheret and his contemporaries.

Our August 24 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, Phalbois, and their contemporaries. Modern marvels from the studios of Matt Smith, Frank Nelson, and many more will also be included. The sale will be rounded out by a selection of kinetic art and puppets of unusual design.

From rare Thayer and Owen-made apparatus to costumes worn by Doug Henning, Jack Gwynne, and props from the shows of Howard Thurston, Harry Blackstone, and Edgar Bergen, this second offering from the magic collection of Jim Rawlins is filled with never-to-be-seen again rarities. Rounding out a huge array of vintage apparatus are stone lithographs, signed books, and ephemera from the golden age of magic, and beyond. The 450 lot auction takes place in our Chicago gallery on Saturday, June 29, 2019.

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 pop culture.