Potter & Potter's Retail Store. Shop now for vintage magic, gambling, circus, and oddities. Our inventory includes used, rare, and out-of-print books, along with vintage magic posters, photographs, magic tricks, playing cards, and more.

Potter & Potter was voted best auction house for the fascinating and rare by the Chicago Reader. "This isn’t your typical auction house. The eclectic items it’s sold over nearly two decades comprise a long and varied catalog of American history, nightmares, and illusions both real and manufactured."

FEBRUARY 1, 2025 • Ghosts, ghouls, taxidermy, spirit photos, "talking boards," circus memorabilia, and oddities of all types will cross the block this February at Potter & Potter.

FEBRUARY 15, 2025 • Our final single-owner sale from the Dawes collection is rich with conjuring curiosa of all types, including early broadsides, memorabilia from the Theatre Robert-Houdin, early and important magic textbooks, unusual Victorian apparatus, and bright stone lithographs from the golden age of the art.

MARCH 6, 2025 • From the hallowed halls of CBGBs to the mondo-trasho seats of American grindhouses, this countercultural offering will feature everything from the ridiculous to the sublime. Punk rock posters and flyers will cross the block beside outsider and self-taught art, Keith Haring originals ripped from the walls of the New York subway, spook show posters, and so much more.

APRIL 18, 2025 • This auction will feature fine books and documents regarding human exploration of the land, sea, and sky.

APRIL 10, 2025 • Our first spring sale is set to feature a large and diverse advertising collection, including porcelain, litho tin, and hand-painted trade signs of all types from a noted Midwest collection.