Here is an incredible 101 year old playbill that recently sold at Fraser’s Autographs auction in the U.K. for £6,500 on March 20th.
It is annotated and hand signed by Houdini, “my dear Herwin Here is one of my bills, it might interest you. Come up and see me ‘magisch’ signed (H. Houdini)”.
Note; Professor Herwin, whose real name was William Humpage, was born at Birmingham on October 31st, 1861. He gave us the metal thumb-tip and made props for Houdini.
Wow! Thanks for putting it up Joe! This was the Grand Magical Revue that poor Harry couldn’t get off the ground. Notice that Dekolta’s Expanding Die isn’t on there. Didn’t know that Harry did the Egg Bag. I wonder if it was the original version with the live chicken. And he kept the straitjacket on the roster. The straitjacket played well in just about every circumstance.
My pleasure! There is a lot to like about it, hence the high price it fetched.
Wow thats about the coolest broadside I have seen with the huge letters and all Houdini, I want one……
Me too! But unless you were the high bidder of this broadside, I am afraid we will have to settle for the incredible image.
I would guess another addition to copperfields collection, but we can only imagine.
I hear ya!