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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.
Chicago Reader 2023: Best Auction House for the Fascinating and Rare
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."
Winter Magic Auction Featuring the Collection of Max Maven
DECEMBER 14, 2024 • Orson Welles wrote of Max Maven: "Yours is the most original mind in magic." This December, Potter & Potter is pleased to offer the very sources of information that helped supply that original mind, in the form of Max Maven's extensive collection and working library.
Micro Magic and More
JANUARY 25, 2025 • Miniature miracles from the workshop of Eddy Taytelbaum and the factories of the Tenyo Co. will be paired with vintage magic books, posters, and ephemera in our first magic sale of 2025.
Fine Books & Manuscripts
JANUARY 16, 2025 • Potter and Potter is pleased to present our first auction of 2025. Not only does this auction feature rare books, fine bindings and sets, and autographs and manuscripts, one session will be devoted to the vast collection of original children's book artwork and signed books from the legendary collection of Dr. J. Robert and Alice Dornish.
Wunderkammer: The Freeman & Fugate Oddities Collection
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.
Upcoming Auction
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Micro Magic and More
Miniature miracles from the workshop of Eddy Taytelbaum and the factories of the Tenyo Co. will be paired with vintage magic books, posters, and ephemera in our first sale of 2025. Among the highlights in the latter categories are the fabled magic and mentalism notebooks of Doctor Stanley Jaks. This is an online only auction; no printed catalog will be issued.
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Download PDFWunderkammer: The Freeman & Fugate Oddities Collection
Ghosts, ghouls, taxidermy, spirit photos, "talking boards," circus memorabilia, and oddities of all types will cross the block this February at Potter & Potter. Featuring selections from the personal collection of James Freeman and Kate Fugate, this sale promises to be equal parts bizarre, amazing, and remarkable.
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Download PDFThe Collection of Edwin A. Dawes Part III
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.