HOUDINI HARRY Postcard Inscribed and Signed by Houdini

Sale 1911 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 1,150

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

HOUDINI, HARRY. Postcard Inscribed and Signed by Houdini,<> being a picture card showing 100 men with billboards standing in front of the Palace Theatre, each man holding a board advertising the Magic Kettle Act, on standard format postcard with divided back, the back of the card abraded to remove the name of the recipient; Inscribed and Signed in the lower portion of the image "How is this for an advertisement? Houdini." London, November 1904

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The Magic Kettle was a curious act in which a large kettle would boil and steam when placed on ice. However, when anything was placed inside the kettle it would be frozen. The secret to the kettle was not terribly involved. What interested Houdini most about the kettle act was the fashion in which it was advertised, as is evidenced by his manuscript note on the card. This card is reproduced and discussed in Magic Magazine, June 2001, page 122.<