Auction Reports

Potter and Potter Auctions

Auction Info

Auction Name
Puzzles, Games, & Playing Cards
Auction Date
02/19/2026 - 02/19/2026
Sale Number
#21926
Total Lots
326
Sold Lots
291.0
Lots Sold
89.26%
Unsold Lots
35
Total Sales (USD)
154,188.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
86,365.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
139,600.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
97,845.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
158,925.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
97.02%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
8

James Y. Humphreys "Seminole Wars" Playing Cards

 ca. 1819 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,125.00
5

Brick (12) of Jerry's Nugget Playing Cards

 ca. 1980s USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,750.00
125

[TAROT]. Martin Dupont Belgian Tarot cards

 18th century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,500.00
192

Three antique Parker Bros. war games

 late 19th/early 20th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 4,250.00
26

A. Dougherty "Murphy Varnish" Transformation Playing Cards

 ca. 1883 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
126

[TAROT]. Marseilles Tarot cards

 ca. 19th century USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 3,500.00
41

[BOXING]. Game of Boxing

 1923 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 2,500.00
171

Game of Sky Riders

 ca. 1940 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,375.00
13

L.I. Cohen Playing Cards

 ca. 1840 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 2,125.00
19

[CIVIL WAR]. American Card Co. Union Playing Cards

 1862 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,125.00
157

Pair of boys' war games

 -1898 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 2,000.00
98

Michigan Souvenir Playing Cards

 ca. 1900 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,875.00
323

[PUZZLES]. Collection of over 150 puzzle booklets

 late 19th century to mid-20th century USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,875.00
11

Caleb Bartlett American Manufacture Playing Cards

 ca. 1830s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,625.00
198

The West Point Cadet Game

 ca. 1900 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,625.00
322

[PUZZLES]. Nuts to Crack. Group of 6 puzzle prints

 Circa mid-19th century USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,625.00
40

The National Card Co. Apollo No. 33 Playing Cards (baseball backs)

 ca. 1890 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 1,500.00
200

Zippy Zepps Air Game

 ca. 1925 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,500.00
155

The Amusing Game of Kilkenny Cats

 ca. 1890 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,500.00
31

Grandebes "Cartes a Rire" Transformation Playing Cards

 ca. 1819 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,375.00
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  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.