An episode 10 Master Mystery Poster sold yesterday (7/25/2020) at Heritage auctions for $43,200 which included Buyer’s Premium.

Also, yesterday (7/25/2020) , there were some great Houdini Movie Lots (390, 397, 398, 398A, 404, 405, 406, 410, 418, 419, 432, and 434) from The Magic Collection of Jim Rawlins and others that sold at Potter & Potter. Click here for prices realized.

While I have many of these items already, I had my eyes on Lot 398A (which had 2 items I had never seen before) and Lot 404.

Lot 398A

Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weisz). Houdini “The Grim Game” Airplane Photographs. Circa 1919.  Uncommon group of five possibly unpublished photographs of Houdini and others on the set of “The Grim Game,” one of Houdini’s films.  One photo shows Houdini standing next to the Curtiss “Jenny” camera airplane piloted by Al Wilson; Lt. David E. Thomson, pilot; Robert Kennedy, Houdini’s stunt double; and Lt. Christopher Pickup, pilot of second airplane. Other photos show various images of pilots, cameraman, director, and co-star Ann Forrest. During the filming of a sequence, the planes collided in mid-air but managed to land safely, in what was likely the first airplane collision ever filmed. The damage to the one of the airplane’s wings is clearly visible in three of the photos. Very good.

Notes: Three of the five photographs have been published before. For example pages 94, 95 and 97 of “Locklear: The Man Who Walked on Wings.”  But two of the photographs, AFAIK, haven’t been published before.

Lot 404:

Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weisz). Houdini Mastery Mystery Invitation. [New York], 1918. Brown ink on cream stock, listing the names of each character and actor playing the role, including Houdini as “Quentin Locke,” and being a “special invitation performance given at the Strand Theatre” on Nov. 7, 1918. 8 ¼ x 5 7/8”. Central folds.

Notes:  A broadside from my personal collection gave Newspaper reviews for this special performance at the Strand Theatre on Nov 7, 1918.

Congrats to the winners.  BTW: I won Lot 404, which will complement my Master Mystery broadside nicely.