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Houdini, Harry. Houdini-owned packing box challenge broadside. Swansea, South Wales Post Newspaper Co., 1911. Half-sheet poster (20 x 30”) describing the escape from a packing box Houdini would make on stage at the Swansea Empire on May 5th, 1911. Houdini has written the word “reward” in the lower third of the poster. Expertly restored; framed, and not examined out of frame.


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Date:
2014-08-23

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