Upcoming Auctions

Join us this September for an auction replete with the rare, the odd, and the unusual. From medical curiosities and tattoo flash, to sideshow imagery and carnival wheels, horror classics by Stephen King and movie posters for sci-fi thrillers, this is a seasonal sale of the macabre and the magnificent. A diverse grouping of vintage automatons from the Parisian workshops of Labert, Vichy, and Roullet & Decamps will also be part of this exceptional, can't-believe-it offering. 

This auction - the first of its kind - celebrates the art, ritual objects, and ephemera of American fraternal organizations from the collection of Bruce and Julie Webb. These secretive societies - including the Oddfellows, Freemasons, Knight of Pythias, Shriners, and Elks - generated attractive, bizarre, and fantastical objects of all kinds. Paintings, costumes, arms & armor, prank-like (and mischievous) initiation devices, prints, lithographs, wood carvings, and "folk art" with a macabre bent are all hallmarks of their output. Examples in each category will be featured in the auction. With Lynne Adele, Bruce Lee Webb authored As Above, So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society, 1850-1930, with a foreword by noted collector David Byrne of the Talking Heads. 

Rare and collectible playing cards, vintage and modern puzzles, antique games and gambling items, and curiosities alike will all cross the block in this collaboration between Potter & Potter and Art of Play. Featured lots include impossible bottles crafted by Harry Eng, Dan & Dave memorabilia from their earliest productions and more modern releases, 100-year-old board games, rare books on "advantage play," and other artifacts of play, plus related objects and curiosities. 

Special note: the sale will be held at the Art of Play curiosity shop at 69 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn Heights, NY and will be live streamed on Potter & Potter's website on auction day. Auction items will be available for preview at the Art of Play store. 

This fourth and final sale from the Dawes collection features posters, prints, books, and props. Items from the careers and lives of every famous magician of the last 100 years. These objects from the Dawes collection material will be complemented by rare and unusual apparatus, ephemera, and posters from a host of other magic collections. 

Our auction this fall will feature an expansive selection of travel and airline posters, including desirable Pan Am posters. The sale will also include American and European advertising posters from the 19th century on, with highlights to include designs by Privat-Livemont, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Cappiello. We will round out the sale with posters in a variety of categories including theater, magic, sports, and politics and activism. 

This November, Potter and Potter is proud to present two vast collections of books and artwork from Dr. George D. Lacy and Louis A. Irmo. These marvelous collections feature fine and rare modern firsts, Americana, autographs and manuscripts, illustrated books, and original artwork. Several of these items represent once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for the discerning collector. Featured lots include original paintings by Norman Lindsay, rare books signed by Lindsay, Lionel and Jack Lindsay, first editions signed by Isaac Asimov, a fine first edition of I, Robot, an archive of an interview with Arthur C. Clarke with autograph material by him, a fine first edition of Dune, rare Civil War titles, Cartes des Visite for John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln and others, and a rare Cabinet Card photograph of the notorious Andersonville Prison, one of only seven photos of this prison taken during the Civil War. We look forward to seeing you on November 20!