Oct 30, 2001 - Sale 1911

Sale 1911 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 4,025
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
HOUDINI, HARRY. Postcard Portrait Signed and Initialled by Houdini,<> being a half-length portrait of Houdini published by Schmidt of Luebeck (Germany), in standard postcard format with divided back; Signed "Best wishes Harry Houdini Leeds Feb 19 /14," and additionally Inscribed and Initialled "I escaped from the Chas Peace cell here in Leeds (1902) HH." Leeds, 19 Febrary 1914

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The "Chas Peace cell" was the cell which held Charles Peace, an infamous English criminal. Peace was unable to escape from the cell.<