Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce the results of this 379-lot sale held on Aug. 26. The auction had a 99 percent sell-through rate. All prices noted include the company's 20-percent buyer's premium.The top lot in this sale was #315, materials used in the interactive illusion from "The Magic of David Copperfield XIV: Flying - Live the Dream" TV special. These were estimated at $1,000-$2,000 and skyrocketed to $36,000. They included 14 custom-printed and designed images used in the performance of an effect performed for millions of viewers of his 1992 ABC TV special. The trick worked like this. Television viewers were asked to choose one of 12 symbols suspended on a sheet of glass positioned close to the camera. They included images of The Eiffel Tower, The Statue of Liberty, and other large, well known landmarks. Viewers were invited to move about their screens, fingers on the glass, from one symbol to another. Then, Copperfield began eliminating symbols one at a time, causing them to fall from the glass as if by magic. Finally, a large pointer was affixed to the glass at the center of the remaining images. The dial then rotated as if guided by a mysterious force, until it pointed to one symbol, a picture of the moon. At Copperfield's command, the other images remaining on screen fell away, leaving only the moon, the object chosen by the viewers, affixed to the glass. This apparatus was only the second screen-used prop from Copperfield's storied career to come to auction through Potter & Potter Auctions, as well as an important piece of magic history, if not television history. It is also one of only two items from Copperfield's career that have been offered for sale with the express consent of the Copperfield organization.Other highlights from the sale included an antique poster, "Thurston the World's Greatest Magician. The Lady and the Lion." It was estimated at $10,000-$15,000 and made $43,200. This one-sheet poster depicted three illusions from early in Thurston's career. It was published by the Strobridge Litho. Co. in 1909. The book, Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin's "Memoirs of Robert-Houdin," was estimated at $6,000-$8,000 and delivered $31,200. This first English edition in two volumes was published in London by Chapman and Hall in 1859. It was inscribed by Houdini to his confidant and lawyer, Bernard M.L. Ernst; volume two was also signed by Houdini on the flyleaf."There is no magician more famous than David Copperfield, and now to his enviable list of accolades and credits David can add the fact that in our sale, one of his props brought $36,000, a record for any item related to or from the career of a living magician sold at auction. Nothing else even comes close, including our own sale of an item from one of David's other television specials," according to Gabe Fajuri, president at Potter & Potter Auctions. For further information, visit www.potterauctions.com.