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Potter & Potter Auctions
5001 W. Belmont Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States
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A Study in Sherlock, Part II: Including the Collections of Robert Hess and Roy Pilot
We are pleased to announce the second session of Robert Hess's Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle collection. High spots will include the only known copy of the first English edition of The Lost World in original dust jacket and Sidney Paget's personal robe. Prices Realized
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Online Winter Magic
This auction will feature contemporary collectible magic props as well as antique apparatus. A strong selection from modern makers will cross the block, including effects from the workshops of Michael Baker, Mikame Craft, Abbott's, Nielsen, and many more. Prices Realized
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Printed Books & Manuscripts (Online Only)
We begin the new year with a large offering of material spanning several categories, including Americana, modern firsts, bibliographies, hunting & fishing, travel, and more. Prices Realized
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Golden Age and Pre-Code Horror: The Comic Book Collection of Stephen J. Farber
We are pleased to ring in the New Year with the sale of this important comic book collection featuring many early issues, chief among them Captain America #1 and Adventures of Spider-Man #1. Prices Realized
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Select Secrets
From J.N. Maskelyne's toolbox to rare Houdiniana (posters, handcuffs, autographs), David Devant's passport to a magic trick that helped predict the outbreak of WWII, Robert Harbin's sketch for the Zig-Zag Girl and Al Delage's Sub Trunk, our December sale of magicana was a closely-curated offering of real rarities. Prices Realized
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Contemporary, Outsider, Folk & Fine Art
Our Contemporary, Outsider, Folk, and Fine Art sale featured works from all time periods and categories. Contemporary highlights included works by Paul Jenkins, Lucio Fontana, and Joan Miro. Chicago artists represented were John Kearney, Zani Jacobsen, and Leroy Neiman. Prices Realized
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Lewis Carroll and Alice: The Collection of Stephen and Nancy Farber
For nearly four decades, the Farbers were "mad as a hatter," collecting everything related to Alice in Wonderland. The Farbers had a deep fascination for the many translations of the work, chief among them perhaps the most important: the "original Alice's copy" of Nabokov's Russian translation of Alice. Prices Realized
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Vintage Posters
Our fall auction of vintage posters covered a waterfront of categories, from vintage travel and advertising lithographs, to entertainment, propaganda, and modern design. The first half of the sale featured iconic posters and pictorial maps from the golden age of air and rail travel. Prices Realized
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The Ricky Jay Collection Part II
Unusual relics were the hallmark of Ricky Jay's storied collection. This second auction from his archives features an astonishing array of the fantastic, the funny, and the flabbergasting. Prices Realized
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Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition: the Collection of Chet Ross
We are pleased to announce the sale of Chet Ross's Japanese Antarctic Expedition collection. Ross authored the first and only bibliography about the expedition, discovering over 50 publications related to Shirase and the JAE which now for the first time are coming across the auction block. Prices Realized
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Coin-Op & Advertising
This sale featured a wide range of machines, including scarce examples in the vending and arcade categories, along with trade stimulators to slot machines of every description, dating from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. Prices Realized
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Vintage & Modern Magic
Highlights of our August sale included a rare one-sheet poster advertising Servais LeRoy, a strong offering of Houdiniana, including inscribed and signed books, an assortment of magic books, and rare ephemera. Prices Realized
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Firsts: The Library of Robin and Kathryn Smiley
We are pleased to announce the sale of Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine's co-Publishers and Editors, Robin and Kathryn Smiley's collection of modern firsts of literature, mystery & detective fiction, and western literature. Prices Realized
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Circus, Sideshow & Oddities
Our annual sale of the unusual, the amazing, and the bizarre featured a wide range of amazing antique objects, from classic vintage lithographs (and the maquettes used to design them), to remarkable cabinet cards and photographs, sideshow banners, and fairground art, including carousel animals and horses. Prices Realized
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Outsider, Folk and Fine Art
Our June auction of Outsider, Folk and Fine Art featured a rare canvas work by Chicago street artist Lee Godie, works by Finster, Sudduth, Tolliver, Willis, and many other outsider stars. The auction also featured sideshow banners, carousel animals, American folk art, quilts and eccentric anonymous paintings and sculptures. Prices Realized
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Summer Magic Auction
Our summer sale was an extravaganza of vintage and modern magic apparatus, featuring further selections from the collections of Jim Deloach and William Trotter. Rarities from the shops of P&L, Abbott's, Collector's Workshop, Thayer, Okito, and others will cross the block. Prices Realized
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Fine Books & Manuscripts, including The Ronald K. Siegel Collection
Our summer book sale featured the important collection of drug literature from the esteemed psychopharmacologist, Ronald K. Siegel. Prices Realized
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Gambling Memorabilia
Potter & Potter's annual gambling memorabilia auction featured a vast array of material in all branches of the hobby, from scarce playing cards, to books on cards and cheating, and thousands of casino and poker chips and sets. Prices Realized
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A Study in Sherlock: The Curious Collection of Robert Hess Part I
This was the first sale from Robert Hess's collection of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle. High spots in every category related to these two subjects included original illustration art, first editions, signed photos, and archives of letters. Prices Realized
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Houdiniana
From remarkable unpublished personal documents and props from his storied career, to personal relics from Houdini's home in Harlem, our April sale of Houdiniana was an offering of historical significance. Prices Realized
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Pop Culture & Collectibles
From comic books and rock memorabilia, to movie posters, vintage toys, trading cards, and Disneyana, the auction featured highlights from nearly every corner of American twentieth century pop culture. Prices Realized
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Vintage Posters
Potter & Potter opened the spring season with an eclectic offering of over 500 vintage posters, spanning the Golden Age of travel, nineteenth and twentieth century advertising, propaganda, and more. Prices Realized
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The Ricky Jay Collection
This was Potter & Potter's first sale from the singular, eclectic collection of Ricky Jay, the lauded actor, celebrated sleight-of-hand magician, and noted author, who curated his own extensive collection of magic, circus, and showbiz ephemera. Prices Realized
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Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
Our first book sale of the year features high spots in all categories. The sci–fi and horror session includes a near complete collection of Arkham House titles, many from the famous Richard Manney collection. Prices Realized
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