Landry would use the jacket throughout his career in the same manner pioneered by Houdini. Accompanied by a sheaf of documents, newspaper articles, and photographs tracing the ownership of the jacket from Houdini to his brother Hardeen, and then to a Hardeen’s one-time assistant, a Massachusetts-based magician Armand Landry. Fabric considerably worn from use, with broken stitching and re-stitched areas throughout, several holes, and other points of stress, but overall intact and well-kept. Height from base to top of leather collar 30”.
A heavy canvas jacket reinforced with leather across the neck, back, arms, and waist, owned by the famous escape artist who made a trademark attraction of his escape from these restraints, used to protect the “murderously insane” from themselves, as Houdini’s advertising matter declared.
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