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Potter & Potter Auctions
5001 W. Belmont Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States
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Magicana of the Golden Age
Highlights of this closely-curated sale include remarkable rarities from the golden age of conjuring: a diverse array of Houdiniana, Victorian magic apparatus, relics from the stages of St. George's Hall, rare posters, select modern props, and choice ephemera. Purchase Catalog
Start: Sat, Jun 20, 11:00AM EDT
Start: Sat, Jun 20, 11:00AM EDTJun 2011:00AM EDTStart: Sat, Jun 20, 11:00AM EDT -
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Hollywood, Pop Culture, & Collectibles
This sale encompasses Hollywood, sports, and music memorabilia; as well as toys, games, comics, and pop culture collectibles. Highlights include a Walt Disney letter from a newly discovered trove of material belonging to actor Chester Morris; a pair of cast and crew mugs gifted by John Wayne; an original Charles Addams cartoon published in The New Yorker; and a complete Harlem Globetrotters player-issued uniform.
Start: Thu, Jun 25, 11:00AM EDT
Start: Thu, Jun 25, 11:00AM EDTJun 2511:00AM EDTStart: Thu, Jun 25, 11:00AM EDT -
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Summer Fine Books & Manuscripts
This sale features some of the rarest Ernest Hemingway items to come to market in recent years, along with rare and important newspapers, a closely-curated selection of works by African-American authors, and some of the finest early printed books to come to market in recent memory. Purchase Catalog
Start: Thu, Jul 9, 11:00AM EDT
Start: Thu, Jul 9, 11:00AM EDTJul 0911:00AM EDTStart: Thu, Jul 9, 11:00AM EDT -
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Glimpses: Vintage, Fine, and Vernacular Photography
This diverse sale - made up of fine, vintage, and vernacular photographs - will focus closely on the snapshot. Once considered mere "fabrics of yesteryear," these fleeting images have been recently reclaimed by the collecting community, and appreciated for their candid, historical, and visual depth. But all genres of photographs will be represented, with featured lots to include space and NASA material, sideshow cabinet cards, fine art photos, and vernacular works of all types.
Start: Thu, Jul 23, 11:00AM EDT
Start: Thu, Jul 23, 11:00AM EDTJul 2311:00AM EDTStart: Thu, Jul 23, 11:00AM EDT -
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Modern Magic Masters
This auction features relics, posters, books, and props from the shows, collections and workshops of modern magic masters. Included are items owned or used by The Amazing Jonathan, Johnny Thompson, and Tom Mullica. Antiquarian items, posters, ephemera, and nearly 200 pieces of finely-crafted apparatus from the workshops and store rooms of Owen Magic Supreme will round out the auction.
Start: Sat, Aug 15, 11:00AM EDT
Start: Sat, Aug 15, 11:00AM EDT
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Skaters, Punks & Rebels: A Countercultural Cross-Section
This sale includes a cross-section of relics of rebels in music, art, and literature. Highlights include an archive of early skateboarding memorabilia and trophies, Raymond Pettibon fliers, guitars, and material from the collection of Howie Pyro. Also crossing the block will be assorted memorabilia from New York's punk rock headquarters, CBGB. Hey-ho, let's go!
Start: Thu, Aug 20, 11:00AM EDT
Start: Thu, Aug 20, 11:00AM EDT
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Step Right Up: Circus and Sideshow Memorabilia
Featuring the collection of lifelong circus collector John Diesso, this auction includes heralds, couriers, and posters advertising the "greatest shows" of yesteryear. Photographs, route books, scrapbooks, and circus costumes will be also be offered, spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A wide array of early European circus posters will be sold, along with a large library of circus books of several thousand volumes.
Start: Thu, Sep 3, 11:00AM EDT
Start: Thu, Sep 3, 11:00AM EDT
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Select Rarities: Exceptional Books and Paper Treasures
Potter and Potter Auctions is honored to offer an incredible group of books, autographs, magazines, newspapers and other treasures in this exceptional premium sale. Many items represent unique, once-in-a-lifetime collecting opportunities for collectors.
Start: Thu, Sep 10, 11:00AM EDT
Start: Thu, Sep 10, 11:00AM EDT
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Houdini Returns: The Centennial Auction
Marking 100 years since the death of Harry Houdini, Potter & Potter will present a landmark sale of Houdini memorabilia on October 31, 2026 at the famed Magic Castle in Hollywood, California. The sale brings to the public for the very first time 100 historic items from the collection of Kevin Connolly, many of which were personally owned by Houdini.
Start: Sat, Oct 31, 04:00PM EDT
Start: Sat, Oct 31, 04:00PM EDTOct 3104:00PM EDTStart: Sat, Oct 31, 04:00PM EDT
![Star Trek The Next Generation Complete Group of 13 Concept Blueprints of the U. S. S. Enterprise-D. [Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, ca. 1987].](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/s/3707/37073572.jpeg?t=1WsXXz)
![HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Autograph Letter Signed to Jane Armstrong, His Typist and Friend, About For Whom the Bell Tolls. [N.p., ca. 1939-1940].](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/s/3657/36571896.jpeg?t=1WhqYX)
![[INCUNABLES]. GREGORY I, POPE (540-604). Moralia sive exposito in Job. [Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1496 ].](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/s/3657/36571898.jpeg?t=1WhqYX)
![[NEWSPAPERS]. [GREAT DEPRESSION]. The Wall Street Journal: Pacific Coast Edition. San Francisco, Los Angeles: Oct. 25, 1929.](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/s/3657/36571904.jpeg?t=1WhqYY)
![[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. HUGHES, Langston (1901-1967). The Weary Blues. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/s/3657/36571908.jpeg?t=1WhqYY)
![[NEWSPAPERS]. [HAMILTON, Alexander (1755-1804), subject]. The Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser. Philadelphia: Aug. 6 - Aug. 8, 1788.](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/s/3657/36571905.jpeg?t=1WhqYY)
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![HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Autograph Letter Signed to Jane Armstrong, His Typist and Friend, About For Whom the Bell Tolls. [N.p., ca. 1939-1940].](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/l/3657/36571896.jpeg?t=1WhqYX)
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![[INCUNABLES]. GREGORY I, POPE (540-604). Moralia sive exposito in Job. [Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1496 ].](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/l/3657/36571898.jpeg?t=1WhqYX)
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![[NEWSPAPERS]. [GREAT DEPRESSION]. The Wall Street Journal: Pacific Coast Edition. San Francisco, Los Angeles: Oct. 25, 1929.](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/l/3657/36571904.jpeg?t=1WhqYY)
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![Star Trek The Next Generation Complete Group of 13 Concept Blueprints of the U. S. S. Enterprise-D. [Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, ca. 1987].](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/l/3707/37073572.jpeg?t=1WsXXz)
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