Set Reminder2023-04-08 12:00:002023-04-08 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Houdiniana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/houdiniana-21931 From remarkable unpublished personal documents and props from his storied career, to personal relics from Houdini's home in Harlem, our April sale of Houdiniana was an offering of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.
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HOUDINI, Harry (Erik Weisz, 1874 ? 1926). Harry Houdini Handwritten Postcard. Postmarked Bradford, England, March 7, 1903, and addressed in Houdini?s own hand in ink to Detective Sergeant Rastruck, the color lithographed card depicts a scene from Cologne, Germany on the recto. In the margins, Houdini has written, quite humorously, ?The police carry a sword over here! To cut cheese? March 2/03. Notice the Kings [sic] Policeman looking for Houdini. Hope he does not jail him. How are the card trix??? Underneath the policeman at the center of the scene, Houdini has marked his position with a thick black ?X.? General wear from mailing and handling; still a rare and humorous postcard written during Houdini?s early years of success.