Take a look at the newly updated inventory from Quicker than the Eye - Potter & Potter's retail division. 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.

Our annual coin-op and advertising auction features jukeboxes, vending machines, arcade games, signs & figural advertising, slots and gambling machines, vintage toys, and much more. The consignment deadline is August 1, 2018. Contact us today to discuss your quality consignments today. Catalogs ship approximately three weeks prior to the auction. Previews take place in our Chicago gallery September 26-28, from 10:00am to 5:00pm.

Our May gambling auction featured the collection of Bob Rosenberger.  The sale included ephemera, books, and advertising related to gambling, poker, and cheating at various games. Also offered were unique books, cheating devices, a strong selection of Will & Finck material, ivory chips and dice, vintage gaming tables, and much, much more.

The second offering from David Baldwin's collection features automatons, magic apparatus (both vintage and modern), ephemera, Houdiniana, stone lithographs, broadsides, and mystery clocks.

Selections from the famed Raymond/Gibson collection, including personal property of Maurice "The Great" Raymond, will go on the block. Choice examples of props manufactured by Okito, Thayer, Klingl, Willmann, Williams, Beadle, and others, will all be highlights of the sale.

Our spring sale of magic memorabilia featured two recently-rediscovered Houdini scrapbooks, never before made available for public sale. In addition, the auction included Houdiniana in a range of categories - glass slides, autographs, books, and photographs. The Houdini memorabilia was complemented by a diverse offering of vintage and antiquarian magic books, posters, broadsides, ephemera, and vintage magic apparatus.