Oct 30, 2001 - Sale 1911

Sale 1911 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 4,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
HOUDINI, HARRY. New Orleans Item Challenges Houdini. Small letterpress challenge broadside, with a small vignette portrait of Houdini and the nature of the challenge detailed, 9x6 inches; with the small inked addition near the bottom edge noting that the event took place in "1908." Framed with a copy of Houdini's Margery pamphlet (the front cover sun-bleached to white from its original pink), a piece of Houdini's letterhead with the engraved portrait displayed in the upper left, and a small reproduction of the challenge broadside offered here and stating that 5000 people came to witness the event.<\t>New Orleans, 1908