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Auction Central News
Houdini prop sets $324K world auction record at Potter & Potter
Potter & Potter Auctions’ October 31 magic event, timed to coincide with Halloween and the anniversary of the death of escape artist and magician Harry Houdini, realized a healthy $1.2 million total.
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Fine Books & Collections
Lincolniana and Civil Rights Ephemera at Inaugural Historical Sale
Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce this nearly 700 lot sale to be held on Thursday, November 17, 2022 starting at 10am CDT
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Auction Daily
Around the Auction World: October 2022
This month, we explored some of the spookiest items and events available from around the auction world.
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fine Books & Collections
Napoleon Letters, Grateful Dead Postcards, Harlan Ellison Art at Auction
Presentation copy of the 1937 Bodley Head edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, offered at Potter & Potter Auctions this week.
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Auction Daily
Potter & Potter’s October Magic Auction Features Robert-Houdin’s Glass Column Mystery Clock and Dr. Hofzinser’s Any-Card Box
Long before Harry Houdini had everyone under his spell, there was Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin.
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Wild About Houdini
Houdini's flower table sets world record at auction
The flowering rosebush table and traveling case that Houdini used in his 3 Shows in One sold today for a whopping $324,000 (with premium) at Potter & Potter's "Salon de Magie: The Klosterman Collection Part III" auction.
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Fine Books & Collections
Shackleton's Copy of Browning's Poems Tops Explorers' Sale
Chicago - Potter & Potter Auctions' October 20th, 2022 Fine Books and Manuscripts sales event was a best seller in every way.
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Auction Central News
Wild about Harry Houdini? Potter & Potter’s Oct. 29 sale deliver
On Saturday, October 29, starting at 10 am Central time, Potter & Potter Auctions will present Salon De Magie -The Klosterman Collection Part III, a 370-lot sale of historically significant magic apparatus, archives, collections and literature.
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Auction Daily
Ghosts, Séances, and the Afterlife: Talking About Spooky Spirits With Potter & Potter Auctions’ Gabe Fajuri
With Halloween right on the horizon, the time couldn’t be more perfect to check in with Chicago’s Potter & Potter Auctions about the company’s upcoming Salon de Magie: The Klosterman Collection Part III magic sale.
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Harry Houdini Circumstantial Evidence
Houdini and Bobby
Recently I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t sleep, so I checked out eBay and saw the above photo with a dog that resembled the dog in the Terror Island movie, so I bought it.
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Chicago Sun-Times
A world of mystery and magic awaits behind the drab brick walls of a Northwest Side warehouse
Potter & Potter Auction House specializes in magic memorabilia.
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