Oct 30, 2001 - Sale 1911

Sale 1911 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 2,070
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
HOUDINI, HARRY. Real Photo Postcard of Houdini flying his Voisin biplane, Signed "Houdini."<> Card shows the biplane in the air with Houdini at the controls and there is an additional vignette portrait of Houdini in the lower left corner of the image; standard postcard format with divided back. Np, circa 1910
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The flight took place in Australia on 16 March 1910. It is said that Houdini made the first sustained airplane flight on that continent. Less than a week later he set a new time record by remaining in the air for 7 minutes and 37 seconds at an altitude of just under 100 feet.<