![]() ![]() ![]() The auctioneers set the value at $2 million. Radner says it is worth perhaps $4 million. Radner as owning "the greatest collection of Houdini material of anyone in the world." Mr. Auction materials quote a 1942 letter from Hardeen, in which he described Mr. The sale, being promoted with true Houdini hyperbole, is the buzz of the magic world. ![]() "Sid is very sad about it," said Jane Merrill of Capital Recovery Group, the auctioneers. Radner and museum officials, the 1,000-piece collection was packed up and shipped here, where it will be auctioned on Saturday in the windowless back room at the Liberace Museum and on eBay. ![]() But after a rancorous falling out between Mr. Until early this year, the collection was on display at the Outagamie Museum in Appleton, Wis., where Houdini's father was the town rabbi in the 1870's. Radner, then a student at Yale with a reputation for jumping from diving boards in handcuffs, as his protégé. Radner in the 1940's by Houdini's brother, another escape artist who went by the stage name Hardeen. Radner, aka Rendar the Magician, owns one of the world's biggest and most valuable collections of Harry Houdini artifacts, including the Chinese Water Torture Cell, one of Houdini's signature props from 1912 until his death in 1926. "But I have such mixed emotions about it all." "My wife just says, 'Take the money and run,"' said Mr. His eyes, set deep behind wire-rimmed spectacles, invite sympathy, not envy. Radner, a retired rug salesman from Holyoke, Mass., is awfully downcast for someone of good fortune. 26 - In a windowless room behind the snack bar at the Liberace Museum, an elderly man with a thousand magic tricks up his sleeve could pocket $1 million or more this weekend. ![]()
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