Press Releases - Potter & Potter

10/30/2018 The Hot Bid

Potter & Potter Could Sell a Snap Wyatt Sideshow Banner of a Headless Girl for $2,000

What you see: A sideshow banner made by Snap Wyatt circa 1965, advertising a headless girl illusion. Potter & Potter estimates it at $1,500 to $2,000.

10/25/2018 Neatorama

Sword Swallowers and Shrunken Heads: An Ode to Johnny Fox and His Freakatorium

The closest thing you'd ever find to a modern day version of P.T. Barnum's museum was the Freakatorium in Manhattan.

10/24/2018 Collectors Weekly

Sword Swallowers and Shrunken Heads: An Ode to Johnny Fox and His Freakatorium

Walking home down Clinton Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side one day in 1999, writer and filmmaker Laurie Gwen Shapiro encountered a tall, dark, and handsome man on the sidewalk swallowing fire.

10/24/2018 Fine Books & Collections

Potter & Potter Auctions' Houdiniana Event Breaks Through at $310,000

Potter and Potter's highly anticipated fall sale did not escape the interest - or pocketbooks - of Houdiniana enthusiasts worldwide!

10/20/2018 Wild About Harry

Rare pitchbooks highlight 'Houdiniana' auction

Today saw Potter & Potter's auction of "Houdiniana" featuring many items from the collection of our late friend John Bushey.

10/19/2018 DanyTrick

Something really amazing is happening to me here.

10/18/2018 The Magic Roadshow

Potter & Potter Auction featuring Freakatorium..

Fox’s Barnumesque museum featured natural and unnatural oddities, many related to circus sideshow performers and attractions, as well as historical objets d’art, stage illusions, photographs, and tabloid style ephemera.

10/18/2018 Fine Books & Collections