![]() ![]() It became his most famous escape act, and he performed it around the world up until his death in 1926. This enabled him to copyright the idea, prevent other magicians from performing a similar escape, and he referred to the illusion as "the upside down" for the rest of his career. Having invented the illusion in 1911, Houdini first performed the escape to a single audience member in a one-act play entitled ‘Houdini Upside Down!’ The poster, printed in England in 1912, featured Houdini performing his most famous escape act: the Chinese Water Torture Cell. Houdini's Australian exploits included an escape from shackles in the Yarra River and a flight in a box kite aeroplane.A rare vintage poster featuring illusionist Harry Houdini has sold for a world record price in Chicago. Just how much Houdini has risen over the past eight years was evident in prices of Houdini's original typescript for a new edition of A Magician Among the Spirits at $US32,000 ($16,756) plus, and an inscribed but deteriorating copy of The Right Way to Do Wrong for $13,000. He was a big buyer at the sale of magic historian Milbourne Christopher's collection at Swanns in 1997. Lebovic said after the Swann Galleries' auction that he had paid "about a grand" for the photo at Gavan Hardy's auctions (Sydney).Ĭopperfield's participation was predictable as he has been a big player at most previous magic auctions. On February 5, 1998, a photograph of Houdini, signed "May 5, 1910" by the magician and escape artist, showing him sitting in an elaborately carved chair with his arm around his wife sold at Swann's in New York for the equivalent of $7200. ![]() Listening in on the phone during the auction was Sydney print dealer Josef Lebovic. American born Carter began as a magic journalist and prominent lawyer but achieved great fame abroad. Robinson died when his bullet-in-the teeth catching routine failed. The other posters related to Chung Ling Soo, or William Ellsworth Robinson (1861-1918), and Carter the Great. Cooke (1825-1904) who established careers performing at the Egyptian Hall in London between 18. Most of the lots went over the telephone to overseas magicians, including David Copperfield, who performs semi-permanently in Las Vegas, and other magicians who were at a convention there.Ī lot of them related to Maskelyne and Cooke, a partnership of John Maskelyne (1839-1904) and George A. The exception was a collection of 13 early moving picture show poster day bills, circa 1910, almost all by the Swift Printing Company of Sydney, including for the Bijour Picture Show Palace, estimated at $60 to $80 which made $990. So, it would appear only the most tenuous claim could be made that they required an export permit under cultural heritage legislation. The posters were all printed in the US, although a strip across the top of several localised them by identifying performances at Brisbane theatres. These lots, estimated as low as $80 each, fetched up to $19,295. The sale included a unique poster advertising the legendary magician Houdini which was estimated at $500 to $600 and went for $72,230, and numerous lots of posters advertising overseas magic acts that toured Australia in the early 20th century. All but seven lots were sold for a total of $210,000 plus buyer's commission of $25,000. Under the hammer at Cromwell's on April 9 went 37 lots of memorabilia from Australia's early magic shows. ![]() Sydney auction goers were subjected to a remarkable display of hocus pocus last week. A Houdini poster was expected to sell for $500 to $600 it went for $72,230. ![]()
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