Copperfield buys Houdini poster for record price

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Copperfield buys Houdini poster for record price

Postby JohnCox » December 4th, 2013, 11:54 am

David Copperfield bought a poster for Houdini's silent film The Grim Game for what is a new record price for a Houdini poster at auction: $67,166.

http://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2013/12 ... s-new.html
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Re: Copperfield buys Houdini poster for record price

Postby Dustin Stinett » December 4th, 2013, 12:16 pm

John,
Do you know if there are there other examples of this poster out there or is this specimen unique?

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Re: Copperfield buys Houdini poster for record price

Postby JohnCox » December 4th, 2013, 7:06 pm

Dustin Stinett wrote:John,
Do you know if there are there other examples of this poster out there or is this specimen unique?

I believe there is one other on display at Roger Dreyer's Houdini Museum of New York.
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Re: Copperfield buys Houdini poster for record price

Postby Jonathan Pendragon » December 7th, 2013, 2:04 pm

That's probably more than it cost to make the film and it's gross at the box office combined.


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