Please sign up to our free newsletter to receive exciting news about memorabilia auctions. The auction will feature a huge array of other posters from other heroes of the golden age, including one for Harry Kellar’s signature trick - the Cassadaga Propaganda.Īnother, for Howard Thurston’s The Levitation, is expected to make $20,000-30,000. As with the poetry cylinder, each of these run just over four minutes. The buyer was none other than Vegas magician David Copperfield, who also owns the remains of the original cell. Next up were the two full recordings of Houdinis Water Torture Cell patter. It could even break the record for any magic poster, set for another variant advertising the illusion that realised $55,000 at CRG Auctions in 2004. Another made $51,959 at Christie’s in 2000, suggesting this one will sell towards the top end of its estimate. Only three examples of this particular design are known to exist. Just as audience anxiety reached its peak he would emerge, dripping wet and triumphant. In fact, Lee is hanging upside down, and the resulting photograph was inverted so that he appears to be sitting up straight. A curtain would then come down for several agonizing minutes. Houdini would be manacled upside down in the cell and a stagehand posted with a fire axe, should the unthinkable happen. The trick is among the most famous illusions ever performed. The Water Torture Cell was Houdini's most celebrated illusion The print dates to 1912 and features an illustration of the nightmarish cell, alongside a description of its dangers. It’s expected to make between $50,000 and 80,000 on February 4 Potter & Potter will offer a rare poster for Houdini’s infamous water torture cell in its Golden Age of Magic Posters auction.
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