Potter & Potter is a Chicago-based auction house with a global reach, specializing in the sale of art, collectibles and antiques of all types.
Our specialists conduct over twenty five sales each year, in categories including fine, outsider and folk art, vintage advertising, fine & rare books and manuscripts, coin-operated machines, vintage posters, prints & multiples, Hollywood memorabilia and movie posters, pop culture artifacts, comic books, toys, and magicana - antiques and collectibles focused on magic and magicians.
Stalwart Chicago gallerist Aron Packer leads the house’s Art department.
The team of specialists at Potter & Potter work hand in hand with consignors and bidders to make the experience of buying and selling at auction exemplary in every way. Lavish catalogs, aggressive advertising and promotion, insightful descriptions written by industry experts, and a team that takes a personalized approach has led to thousands of delighted customers and consignors, as well as record-setting results year after year.
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The auction features material dating to the 18th and 19th century, including a rare George Washington free frank, and a desirable John Quincy Adams Pewter mirror.
Collectors will also find a wonderful selection of three-dimensional campaign items, an amazing Howard Hughes signed photograph, important association items, campaign posters, Lincolniana, and historical autographs.
Place your bids now at POTTERAUCTIONS.COM
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EMAIL us or call 773.472.1442 to leave phone or absentee bids.
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Check out the auction items here
Outsider and Folk Art / Lots 1-230
Contemporary Art / Lots 231-577
Fine Art / 578-684
If you have any questions about how it works or anything else feel free to call or email me aron@potterauctions.com or 773-472-1442.
Image: LOT 535. Lewis Tardy, Futuristic Found Object Bio-Mechanical Man on Motorcycle. 1975. Welded metal found object sculpture on metal base. Signed by the artist. 31 h x 10 ½ w x 26” d.
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This event will be held live at Potter & Potter's gallery, located at 5001 W. Belmont Avenue in Chicago and live streamed at www.potterauctions.com. Phone and absentee bids are welcome.
Previews: May 14-15, 10am–5pm
The catalog is available here
The top lot in this sale is #66, Harry R. Hopps' (1869 – 1937) Destroy this Mad Brute / Enlist, which is estimated at $10,000-15,000. This framed example from 1917 measures 41 x 27\". It is illustrated with a bloodied German brute wearing a helmet reading “militarism”; he is stepping onto an American shore holding a half-naked Lady Liberty captive. This brutal and visceral call to action for American men predates the now legacy King Kong character by more than a decade. In 2018, Potter & Potter Auctions sold a similar example for $12,500.
Other highlights from this event include:
According to Joe Slabaugh, Director of Cataloging at Potter & Potter Auctions, \"The number of graphic styles, designers, and periods represented should make for an exciting auction. We're pleased to bring the individual rarities and the abundance of quality to the market.\"
Potter & Potter, founded in 2007, is a Chicago area auction house specializing in paper Americana, vintage advertising, rare books, playing cards, gambling memorabilia, posters, fine prints, vintage toys, and magicana - antiques and collectibles related to magic and magicians. Follow us on Facebook (potterandpotterauctions) and Instagram (potterauctions).
Image: FIX-MASSEAU, Pierre (1905 – 1994). Exactitude. 1932. Paris: Edita. Iconic Art Deco advertisement showing a locomotive in an emphatic, streamlined perspective. Framed. Sight 39 1⁄4 x 24”. Closed tear to center. Not examined outside frame. A.
Est. $8,000/12,000
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This sale will highlight selected material from the collection of the late Peter Hackhofer. Built up over several decades as a dealer and seeker of the unusual, his holdings included an extensive library, unusual stone lithographs from the great illusion shows of yesteryear, and art of all types with a magic theme. An archive of material from the career of Max Auzinger, the Black Art magician, will also be featured. The Hackhofer collection will be complemented by an array of vintage posters, apparatus, and ephemera from the golden age of magic and beyond.
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We start the sale with a major collection of works by Edward Curtis, featuring platinum prints, silver gelatin prints, photogravures, and orotones. Outsider Art: Howard Finster, Lee Godie, Mose Tolliver and more. Folk Art: quilts, whirligigs, wood carvings of figures and animals. Contemporary Art: prints by Roger Brown, Leroy Neiman, and Tony Fitzpatrick along with original works by Macena Barton and multiple works by Medard Klein.
Image Credit: Lot 300 / ROBERTS, Darrell (American, b. 1972) Golden Gate. 2019. Oil on canvas. Signed, titled and dated verso. 42 x 48”
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Image: Ringling Bros. / World’s Largest Menagerie. Cincinnati: Strobridge, 1909. Color lithograph poster depicting an enormous menagerie including a polar bear, hippo, giraffe, tiger, zebra, lions, rhino, monkey, camels, and more. 28 x 38”. Linen backed. Professionally restored, with inpainting along original folds. Colors are vibrant. A rare poster. A-/B+.
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Pictured: JAY, Ricky (1946 – 2018). Cards As Weapons. New York: A Darien House Book, (1977). FIRST EDITION. Pale orange cloth lettered black. Pictorial jacket (a few nicks and edgewear), photographs and illustrations. Tall 8vo. AUTHOR’S OWN COPY of his first book.
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024 • 10:00 AM
From arcade games of yesteryear to vintage vending machines, slot machines, and trade stimulators, this sale will feature coin-operated machines of all types. Complementing these mechanical marvels will be a host of vintage signs, and rare advertising objects from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 • 10:00 AM
Ephemera, books, posters, and memorabilia from the movements that changed history - and the individuals that made those movements happen - will be the hallmarks of this auction. Also featured will be a range of memorabilia from arguably the most famous band of the era, The Grateful Dead, including posters, apparel, ephemera, and an enormous archive of show tapes.
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OCTOBER 2, 2024 • 10:00 AM
The singular focus of Richard Harris's collection was the macabre. This October, Potter & Potter will bring to market a range of rarities from his art collection, a singular gathering of works (textiles, paintings, sculptures, posters, drawings) that, while broad in form, were focused on a topic no one has yet been able to escape.
On offer is a fine collection of macabre-themed artworks, as well as Renaissance prints, contemporary art, vernacular photography, contemporary photojournalism, medical and anatomical materials, and historical ephemera from wars of the last three centuries.
A preview reception for the auction will be held at Potter & Potter Auctions' gallery on Saturday, September 28th from 1:00-4:00PM.
Please see the attached press release and highlight photos for more information.
Aron Packer, Director & Specialist, Fine & Outsider Art for Potter & Potter Auctions, is happy to speak with you in greater detail about the sale. He can be reached at
773- 472- 1442.
Potter & Potter Auctions Features Material From the Beverly Hills Hilton along with a Survey of Contemporary, Fine, Outsider and Folk Art. The auction will be held live at Potter & Potter's gallery, located at 5001 W. Belmont Avenue in Chicago, as well as live streamed on the company's website at www.potterauctions.com. Phone and absentee bids are welcome. Please contact the auction house directly for more information.
Image: Lot #351, After Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) MYTHS: Superman, The Witch, Santa Claus, Mickey Mouse, Mammy, Howdy Doody, Dracula, The Shadow, The Star and Uncle Sam. 1981, 38 x 38”. $6,000-8000
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Advertising & Coin-Op
April 10, 2025
Our first spring sale features a large and diverse advertising collection, including porcelain, litho tin, and hand-painted trade signs of all types from a noted Midwest collection. Complementing these pieces will be patent models of all types, and coin-operated machines in all popular categories, including slots and trades, vending, and arcade games.
Absentee bids are now being accepted. Live bidding for this session begins on 4/10/2025 at 10:00 AM CDT
Celestial & Terrestrial Exploration
April 18, 2025
This auction will feature fine books and documents regarding human exploration of the land, sea, and sky. Chronicles of and relics from polar, north American, European journeys of the last three hundred years, as well as other areas of exploration will cross the block, alongside books and ephemeral objects related to American and Russian space exploration.
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April 26, 2025
Relics from the shows and life of the world's most famous magician - Harry Houdini - are set to cross the block this April. Vintage stone lithographs, \"challenges\" made to Houdini, autographs, and a remarkable link between Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle will be highlights of the sale. The auction will conclude with a strong offering of vintage magic memorabilia, including apparatus, posters, and books.
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The first 70 lots are related to a collection of Charles and Ray Eames design material. A few drawings by Eames, blueprints and presentation fabric samples by Alexander Girard for Herman Miller, a Noguchi table shipped to Charles Eames and two matching Sofa Compacts with Girard fabric. Within the collection that came with this group are also 11 prints by Harry Bertoia, a major work on panel and another on paper by Hans Hofmann. I can go on and on ... Keane paintings, Niffenegger, Mesple, Fitzpatrick, Joseph Delaney, Duckworth, Wirsum, Jacobsen, Golub, Warhol, and Philip Turner (sort of a male Vivian Maier, undiscovered!, with hundreds of photographs in one lot and his Leica and Hasselblad cameras!).
In Fine Art there are small drawings by a Canadian regionalist, Samuel Huyghue, a classic farm landscape by Walter Parke (1945), a large group of stained glass and sketches for stained glass designs. In Outsider... Godie, Finster, Tolliver, Pierce, Sudduth and more. In Folk a complete mini circus, side show banners, a hook and ladder with great paint and many ladders, a battleship named \"The Terror\", canes, quilts, weathervanes and the list goes on! I'll stop now. Thanks for reading and looking!
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June 5, 2025
Our Contemporary, Fine, Folk, and Outsider Art sale features works from all time periods and categories. Contemporary highlights include works by Hans Hofmann, Woodrow Blagg, Hans Bellmer and Tony Fitzpatrick. In Fine Art we offer works by Samuel A. Kilborne, Louis Kronberg and Samuel Huyghe. In Folk Art we have exceptional early 20th century examples of a monumental battleship, an impressive hook and ladder fire engine, and a later Folk Art Circus complete with many rides, wagons, and concession stands. Rounding out the event with Outsider Art we present many stellar artists such as Elijah Pierce, Lee Godie, Mose Tolliver, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Minnie Adkins and William Dawson.
Fine Books & Manuscripts, featuring Mystery & Detective Literature
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Cabinet of Curiosities Absentee bids are now being accepted.
Live bidding for this session begins on 9/27/2025 at 10:00 AM CDT
Join us this September for an auction replete with the rare, the odd, and the unusual. From medical curiosities and tattoo flash, to sideshow imagery and carnival wheels, horror classics by Stephen King and movie posters for sci-fi thrillers, this is a seasonal sale of the macabre and the magnificent. A diverse grouping of vintage automatons from the Parisian workshops of Labert, Vichy, and Roullet & Decamps will also be part of this exceptional, can't-believe-it offering.
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We will be offering a range of fine and vintage photography in this auction, curated by Eric Robbins. Highlights include archives of space photography, Lewis Hine photographs, iconic pop culture imagery, studio and vernacular photographs of the 19th and 20th century in a range of subjects, panoramas, a comprehensive collection of \"headless\" trick photography, and photo albums.
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Mar 26, 2026 10:00AM CDT
We will offer over 500 lots of vintage posters in an array of categories, including a strong representation of early and mid-century travel posters, advertising, sports, concert posters, and pictorial maps.
Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce a landmark auction of tattoo art and memorabilia to be held April 9, 2026. This sale celebrates both the rich history of early-twentieth century tattooing and the life and legacy of legendary tattooer and underground cultural luminary Jonathan Shaw.
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A choice offering of Houdiniana and rare magic memorabilia, books, tricks, and posters. Among the highlights will be challenges, photos, and autographs from the Houdini family collection. The Houdiniana will be complemented by an assortment of collectible magic books, posters, ephemera, & apparatus.
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Potter & Potter's spring book sale will feature fine books and manuscripts in all fields, with a focus on of modern literature, travel books, original art, autographs, photography, rare newspapers, and classical works.
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This is an auction replete with standouts. Works by Magritte, Tamayo, Ed Paschke, Karl Wirsum and multiple mixed media collages and prints from the celebrated Tony Fitzpatrick will cross the block.
A significant work by Bill Traylor leads the Outsider Art session, alongside major works by Howard Finster, Yoakum, Dial, Sparrow, and Dawson. Folk art includes a carved grotto Jesus and Devil train set sculpture from Wisconsin, and three oversize leaves by Ivan Albright lead the fine art session. Design collectors can settle in to a Bouloum Chair by Oliver Mourge for Airbourne International.
Also featuring Chicago art featuring the late Tony Fitzpatrick and many of his artist friends, interspersed with his influences like tattoo flash, animals and Chicago Architecture with a capital A by Zani Jacobsen. All in the first 66 lots. There's some high value works by artists like Bill Traylor, and 4 other artists from the seminal Black Folk Art in American exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1982: William Dawson, Sam Doyle, Inez Nathaniel Walker, and Mose Tolliver.
Previews May 26-27, 9 am – 5 pm in our Chicago gallery
In addition to classic designs by Cappiello and Cassandre, our summer auction of vintage posters will feature an array of posters in travel, music, movies, politics, war and propaganda, magic and theater, sports, advertising, and counterculture. Highlights in various genres have been drawn from Michael Corsi's Poster Art collection.
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This sale encompasses Hollywood, sports, and music memorabilia; as well as toys, comics, and pop culture collectibles. Highlights include a Walt Disney letter from a newly discovered trove of material belonging to actor Chester Morris; a pair of cast and crew mugs gifted by John Wayne; an original Charles Addams cartoon published in The New Yorker; and a complete Harlem Globetrotters player-issued uniform.
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This diverse sale - made up of fine, vintage, and vernacular photographs - will focus closely on the snapshot. Once considered mere \"fabrics of yesteryear,\" these fleeting images have been recently reclaimed by the collecting community, and appreciated for their candid, historical, and visual depth. But all genres of photographs will be represented, with featured lots to include space and NASA material, sideshow cabinet cards, fine art photos, and vernacular works of all types.
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This auction features relics, posters, books, and props from the shows, collections and workshops of modern magic masters. Included are items owned or used by The Amazing Jonathan, Johnny Thompson, and Tom Mullica. Antiquarian items, posters, ephemera, and nearly 200 pieces of finely-crafted apparatus from the workshops and store rooms of Owen Magic Supreme will round out the auction.
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This sale includes a cross-section of relics of rebels in music, art, and literature. Highlights include an archive of early skateboarding memorabilia and trophies, Raymond Pettibon fliers, guitars, and material from the collection of Howie Pyro. Also crossing the block will be assorted memorabilia from New York's punk rock headquarters, CBGB. Hey-ho, let's go!
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Join us for Weird Tales! Explore rarities of tattooing, enter a crypt of the odd and curious, and prepare to believe that life exists beyond our world. Featuring narrative art of UFO abductions by David Huggins, rare tattoo flash and memorabilia, and curios across several categories, Weird Tales! is one of Potter & Potter’s most eclectic auctions to date. (And that's saying something.)
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