Hardeen. Hardeen The World-renowned Handcuff King broadside. Nottingham, Stafford & Co., 1906. Large one-color broadside (18 x 36”) advertising Houdini’s brother on the top of a ten-act bill. Minor expert over-coloring; A-.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-08-23
Hardeen, Theodore. Hardeen Handcuff King Photographic Advertising Postcard. Postcard reproduces an advertisement for “Hardeen The Handcuff King, Who Has Baffled All the Police of the Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-02-07
Houdini, Harry. Victoria Theatre Handcuff King Program. New York: Empire City Job Print, January 29, 1912. Pictorial program (9 x 12 ”) heralding “the feats Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
Houdini, Harry. Early handcuff king letterpress advertisement and cover portrait of the Houdinis. London, 1902 – 03. Clipped broadsheet (14 x 9”) leaves from the Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-04-04
[Escapologist] Harry Kardoc. Handcuff King and Jail Breaker Postcard. Australia, ca. 1900s. Bearing an illustration of the Houdini imitator fully manacled. 3 x 5 ”. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
[Houdini Imitator] Real photo postcard of a “handcuff king.” American, ca. 1907. The man stands in a Houdini-esque pose, wrists covered in handcuffs, which are Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-08-23
[New York], ca. 1925. Letterpress poster advertising Hardeen, The Handcuff King, at the top of a vaudeville show. Other acts include soubrette-turned movie star Trixie Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-02-04
Hardeen, Theo. Theo Hardeen Postcard. London: St. Paul’s Printing Co., ca. 1907. A central portrait of Hardeen “The Handcuff King. And his two prize winners” Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
Hardeen. Bean Giant Handcuff Escape routine, written by Hardeen. Circa 1939. A detailed holographic manuscript outlining the presentation of an escape from a pair of Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-08-23
Goldston, Will (Wolf Goldstein). Challenge. Carl Devo. Blackpool: Railway Guide Office, 1903. Letterpress broadside advertising a £100 challenge to Carl Devo (Goldston’s stage name). The Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-06-25
Houdini, Harry. Hippodrome Theatre of Varieties/ Solid Silver Manacle Release. Brighton: W.E. Nash, ca. 1904. Letterpress challenge handbill (5 1/8 x 8”) heralding “the famous Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
