Houdini, Harry. Sea-Bag Escape Challenge. Hull, 1913. Seamen challenge Houdini to escape from a bag used to restrain “mad-with-grog sailors or mutineers on the high seas” at his performance at the Palace Theatre. 5.75 x 8.5”. Two tape squares at top, horizontal tear at central fold (2”), creases, a few tiny losses from edges.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-04-04
Houdini, Harry. Houdini Packing Case Escape Challenge. Liverpool: Olympia Theatre, 1913. Letterpress challenge handbill (4 7/8 x 7 ”) by employees of City Saw Mill Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
Houdini, Harry. Typed Letter “Challenge” to Harry Houdini from Wm. Filene’s Sons. Boston, Sept. 9, 1924. On one 4to page of Wm. Filene’s Sons Company, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
Houdini, Harry. Schlitz Brewery Challenge to Houdini. Dated March 4th, 1912 and typed on Schlitz letterhead from Norfolk Virginia. The message states, “We challenge you Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-05-31
Houdini, Harry. Houdini Sea-Bag Escape Challenge. Hull, 1913. Seamen challenge Houdini to escape from a bag used to restrain “mad-with-grog sailors or mutineers on the Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-08-23
Houdini, Harry. An Interesting Challenge. Leicester, Willson's New Walk Printing Works, ca 1907. 8 x 11 ½". Black ink on orange-brown stock. Houdini accepts a Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2009-04-26
Houdini, Harry (Erich Weisz). Houdini Packing Case Escape Challenge. Glasgow: Crawford, 1910. Letterpress broadside on which the engineers of a Scottish saw mill challenge Houdini Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-08-27
Houdini, Harry. Miniature Houdini escape challenge. American, ca. 1910. Challenge in the form of an oversize ticket advertising the “$1000 Challenge” for Houdini’s release from Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-08-23
Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). Nurses Escape Challenge. Kansas City, Mo., 1923. Letterpress handbill for the performance at the Orpheum Theater, in which a group of Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-10-29
Houdini, Harry. Houdini Challenge at B.F. Keith’s. Will He Meet Defeat? Cincinnati: Union Label, ca. 1915. Letterpress challenge handbill (4 x 9”) by the “expert Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
Houdini, Harry. Houdini U.S. Navy Plank Escape Challenge. New York: Pusey Press, 1915. Letterpress challenge handbill (7 x 9 3/8”) by members of the U.S. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
