Houdiniana & Magic Memorabilia

HOUDINI, Harry (Ehrich Weisz). Photograph of Houdini and Jack Maher. Melbourne, 1910. Candid photograph of Pathe camera man and theatrical personality Jack Maher standing with Houdini near the latter’s biplane at Digger’s rest in Australia where Houdini made the first manned flight in the country. Trimmed to 4 x 2 ½” from a RPPC. With contemporary inked notes to verso and ALS from an Australian bookseller from 1969 explaining the history of the photograph. Sold with a later photo of Houdini piloting the plane.