$3,200
Houdini, Harry. Houdini Newgate Prison Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Card. Piccadilly Circus W., St. Paul’s Ptg., 1904. Dark green folder, “H” stamped in gilt on front, enclosing a tri-fold Houdini holiday card bearing a half-tone portrait of Harry. Inside, Beatrice is shown in a prison cell at Newgate, “Caught” in one scene and “Flown” in the other. 3 x 4 ”. Third panel cleanly separated, else very good. Rare. Accompanied by a 1949 envelope to R.R. Bush, the son of a guard at Newgate Prison who had befriended Houdini. “Harry Houdini and wife sent out their holiday compliments in the shape of an extremely neat little folder containing three half tones of themselves and of a cell in Newgate Prison.” (The Sphinx, “Book Notes,” Vol. 3 No. 12 [Feb. 1905]). See next lot.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
