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Our summer book, manuscript, and memorabilia sale features several categories: historical documents and Americana, modern literature, science, math, and children's books, autographs, and periodicals. Featured categories include travel books, political memorabilia, aviation, and American history objects. Accompanying the artifacts, books, and manuscripts will be a selection of vintage prints, maps, and posters.

The second offering from David Baldwin's collection featured 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, went on the block. Choice examples of props manufactured by Okito, Thayer, Klingl, Willmann, Williams, Beadle, and others, rounded out the sale.

Our summer sale of magicana is set to include collectibles in all familiar categories, including vintage posters, apparatus, antiquarian books, and ephemera. Highlights include rarities advertising the shows of the Hanlon Brothers, early and uncommon conjuring catalogs, and relics from the career of Howard Thurston.