Below are two great vintage 1944 motion picture First Day Covers with add-on cachets for Houdini’s movies, The Grim Game and Terror Island.  These items recently sold individually on eBay for $15.50 and $15.55 respectively.  Congratulations to the winners!

Grim Game FDC:

• MAGICIAN HARRY KELLAR VISITING HARRY HOUDINI AND DIRECTOR IRVIN WILLAT ON THE SET OF “THE GRIM GAME.” [Note: Arthur Moses owns the original photograph which I was lucky enough to see.]
• FREEMASONS: Harry Houdini was a member of St. Cecile Lodge, New York.
• He became a Shriner in New York’s Mecca Shrine in October 1926.
• Harry Kellar was made a Mason May 1875 in Lodge Fraternidad y Homa at Peltas, Brazil.
• Received the Royal Arch Degree on the Isle of Mauritius.
• 1850 received the Scottish Rite Degrees in Triple Esperance Lodge, Port Luis, Mauritius, and the 33 AASR in New York City.
• FIRST DAY OF ISSUE, FIRST DAY COVER, FDOI
• PENCIL ADDRESS ERASED, SEALED
• POSTMARKED: NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 31, 1944

Terror Island FDC:

• Harry starred in TERROR ISLAND (1920) and several other films produced by others and himself.
• He has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and a place in motion picture history.
• FIRST DAY OF ISSUE, FIRST DAY COVER, FDOI
• PENCIL ADDRESS ERASED, SEALED
• POSTMARKED: NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 31, 1944