UPCOMING MAGIC AUCTION FEATURED ON ABC NEWS IN CHICAGO

FROM ABC NEWS IN CHICAGO: Gabe Fajuri and his father, Sami, will auction off the posters on Saturday, March 26th. For fans of this type of memorabilia it will be a rare chance to look back and maybe buy a piece of the golden age of magic. "I would say that stone lithography had its heyday from the 1880's to the 1920's and most of these posters are from that period," said Sami Fajuri. Is it art? "Absolutely." A 1902 Houdini poster valued at about $20,000 is the rarest of the lot. It shows Houdini in a German court accused of being a swindler and a fraud by German police. But Houdini demonstrated his magic for the judge. "He won and forced a public apology to be issued by Kaiser Willhelm II," Gabe Fajuri said. "He escaped again." More than 100 hundred posters will be up for auction.