Set Reminder2025-04-26 12:00:002025-04-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Houdiniana & Magic Memorabilia https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/houdiniana-magic-memorabilia-21884 Relics from the shows and life of the world's most famous magician - Harry Houdini - are set to cross the block this April. Vintage stone lithographs, "challenges" made to Houdini, autographs, and a remarkable link between Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle will be highlights of the sale.
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VERNON, Dai (David Verner, 1894 - 1992). Photograph of the Night Dai Vernon Fooled Houdini. Chicago, 1922. A panoramic banquet photograph captioned, ?Banquet in Honor of Houdini given by Chicago Assembly Society of American Magicians Ass'n. Great Northern Hotel Feb 6. 1922." Pictured at large tables in the hotel ballroom are Houdini, Russel Walsh, Harlan Tarbell, Dr. A.M. Wilson, Eddie McLaughlin, a young Laurie Ireland and Ade Duval, Sam Margules, and Dai Vernon. 10 ? x 17 ?". Neatly laminated, else near fine. A SCARCE image captured on the night Vernon, still a young man, earned the moniker that would serve him in great stead for years to come: ?The Man Who Fooled Houdini." Kevin Connolly Collection.