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 (7th October 1892 - 5th September 1982)
Born in Chicago, Illinois. Inspired at age 13 reading old magic catalog. Pro comedy magician (mostly small tricks and an occasional illusion) and MC. IBM Member #4 in 1922. Toured Australia in 1927. SAM President 1931-32. Author of patter books including Trix and Chatter (1921, 286pp), Dorny on Trix (1954, 40pp), and Dorney's Comedy Blackouts (1962, 64pp). Named 6th SAM Dean of Magicians in 1973. 1978 AMA Masters Fellowship. SAM Hall of Fame. Articles. Chuck Stanfield was writing a bio at the time of his own death in 1991. | |
 (23rd September 1879 - 30th December 1958)
Born in Albion, Michigan. Pro name of Donald H. Alsdorf. Pro mail-order dealer ("Donald Holmes") in Texas in 1909, later in Kansas City, where he issued catalogs by 1916 (#3) to at least 1930 (#19) and, as house organs, Holmes' Trade Sheet 1916 (4 issues) and Holmes' Magical Notes and Comments 1917-20 (39 issues).
Wrote Some Modern Conjuring (1909, viii+78pp), New Card Tricks (39pp), Tricks with Prepared Cards (32pp), and The Magic Art (1920, 234pp). This last volume was announced as the first in a complete course in magic; but no further volumes appeared. | |
 As a seven-year-old, Mark Piazza got hooked on magic when he saw a man in a corner store make a quarter disappear, and also when his father encouraged him to pick out a few magic tricks from a Johnson Smith catalog back in the sixties.
A graphic designer and love of comic books (Batman, Hellboy and The Sandman are his favorites), he has been performing magic for kids and magick for adults for over 20 years, in addition to creating some of his own routines.
Currently, he is working on a book of seances and, on the other end of the spectrum, a book of his unique kids' routines. | |
 From the time he was a small child, Cameron has been fascinated with magic. At the age of ten he acquired a colorful Mak Magic catalog and was completely entranced by the shiny boxes, rice bowls, colorful silks in the pages within. On weekends, Cameron would beg his father to drive him to the magic store where he would spend all of his hard earned allowance money on whatever exotic props he could afford. From elementary school up until he left for college, Cameron put these props to good use and performed his share of birthday parties, school events and Cub Scout meetings. During college, however, magic fell to the wayside as he spent more time focusing on becoming an actor (Plus it was really... | |
 (St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, England: 24th April 1905 - 15th October 1989)
Stage name of Sidney Richard Johnson since 1915. Moved to Canada at age 9. Inspired seeing carny Harry Usher do the Sphinx and other tricks. Learned in 1914 by buying carnival slum magic. Commercial artist. Illustrated many magic books, magazines and catalogs. Semi-pro comedy magician. Billed as "The Magical Chatterbox" on Toronto radio 1930-32.
1977 AMA Best Lecturer. 1982 FFFF roastee. 1984 AMA Literary Fellowship. SAM Hall of Fame. With wide contacts, a good memory, and fine files, he was a major and generous reference source for many magicians.
Invented Slop Shuffle (in 1924) and Triumph (by 1937) and marketed... | |
 (1983 - )
Born in the North of France, Raphaël became seriously interested in magic after his father read an ad of a French magic shop. A few days later, he received a catalog full of professional magic tricks and his first purchase was a Brainwave Deck. At the same period, a popular French magician Sylvain Mirouf performed card tricks almost every day on a TV show and Raphaël understood all the potential of a single deck of cards.
His favorite magicians are Aldo Colombini, Peter Duffie, Jay Sankey and Dominique Duvivier.
Otherwise, he is particularly interested in magic with rubber bands and ropes.
He also has a great passion for cinema and is currently writing his first full feature... | |
 (4th March 1946 - )
Became interested in magic in his pre-teens, and paid his way through an engineering degree with magic performances. Unaware of magic dealers in those years, he "created" and made most of the magic props he used with effects culled from a Douglas Magicland Catalog he got through an ad in Popular Science. Some of these were just "reinventing the wheel", and some were original, as he found out years later.
When he got better acquainted with the whole big magic fraternity in the late 60s, he started contributing his "ideas" for various magic magazines, like the Magigram, New Pentagram, Abra, and several others.
Inspired by the Jinx, he started his own magic monthly... | |
 After 16 years as a working magician, Gregg turned to illustrating, writing, and in some cases "ghost" writing technical magic.
Besides his own collections of his newsletters for magicians, he worked on the Tannen catalog, Tannen's Top Hat Topics, Sam Sharp's Mechanical Secrets, Genii Magazine, Richard Robinson's ALL MAGIC web site, David Roth's 3-Ball Trick lecture notes, two books for Doug Edwards, dust jackets and a few interior illustrations for Steve Minch's Hermetic Press, and he has helped build, sculpt, or decorate props for a number of working pros.
Gregg still invents magic, writes his newsletters, and occasionally still performs. His Zarrow Shuffle draws praise when seen from... | |
 Edgar Heyl was born in Philadelphia in 1911. Educated as a chemical engineer, he has had many years experience in industrial research and development work.
His interest in conjuring began early in life as his father, the late Earle G. Heyl, had long been a semi-professional conjurer. Ultimately he began collecting conjuring books, but with the death of Leo Rullmann, he changed from collecting to dealing. Since 1948 he has issued over 70 catalogues, mostly on conjuring books.
In the course of his work with books, he began to carry out studies on various aspectsof conjuring bibliography. These resulted in numerous papers which appeared in some of the leading conjuring magazines. | |
 ... Annual, Sphinx, Abra, Magic Wand ("Collecteana" column), Magic Circular, Conjuriana, Magical Bookie, and Magic Cauldron. Also wrote articles under pen name of "Criticus".
His superb collection of magic books, willed to his son, Dr. David W. Findlay, was dispersed at public auction in 1979-80. A catalog is Findlay's Ninth Collectors Annual (1975, 280pp). | |
 SALVATORE CIMÒ (1912 - 1985) è stato un sacerdote italiano che, nel corso della sua vita ha raccolto e catalogato centinaia di effetti magici con il proposito di poterli divulgare, attraverso le sue pubblicazioni, ai tanti appassionati dell’Arte Magica. Proprio per questo suo meticoloso ed encomiabile lavoro, un’illustre rivista magica francese ha definito Padre Salvatore Cimò come il «Tarbell della letteratura magica italiana». | |
 ... Order. Amateur card expert, known to fellow magi as "Father Cyp". Wrote several booklets on card and close-up magic. See Frank Garcia, The Elegant Card Magic of Father Cyprian (1980, 80pp) and Richard Vollmer, The Very Best of Father Cyprian (1983, in French). Also has compiled world's largest catalog of films involving magic (over 500 titles) plus "several thousand pieces of memorabilia". MIMC 1988. SAM President 1989-90. | |
 ... of Self-Working Card Tricks (2 vols, [1936], [1937], 451+150pp). Wrote Jap Box Tricks (1937, 123pp), Final Selection (1957, 89pp), Glenn Gravatt's Treasure Trove of Tricks (1971, 290pp), Fifty Modern Card Tricks You Can Do! (1974, 50pp), Fifty More Modern Card Tricks (60pp), Thayer Quality Magic Catalog Instruction Sheets (4 vols, 1978 etc), Collected Writings of Glenn Gravatt (1974, 254pp), More Collected Writings of Glenn Gravatt, & Goldmine of Magic (1984, 232pp). Many articles in magic magazines, including Genii. | |
 ... near the front. After 1919 toured USA and Canada, working fairs, vaudeville, and his own show. Also did a pseudo-Chinese act as "Lung Chang Yen" and a mind-reading act as "Mar-Jah".
Moved to Canada. Worked with assistant-wife Frances. Dealer (Treasure Magic) in Cornwall, Ontario, with 1927 catalog (50pp). Died of throat cancer in a Buffalo hospital. His collection of magic books was acquired by Lloyd Jones.
Invented the Master Move = Kelly Bottom Placement by 1927. Edited Echo 1932-35 (16 issues). Co-edited "Hocus Pocus Parade" in Linking Ring 1941-42.
Wrote Magician's New Field (1916, 30pp), Trickery Tricks (1917, 24pp), Advanced Magic (60pp), Practical Telepathy, Publicity... | |
 (Dayton, Ohio: 9th December 1908 - 4th October 1970)
Inspired as youth seeing many famous vaudeville magi and learned from aunt's gift of Hoffmann's Later Magic. Pro commercial illustrator and later art director in the advertising field. Amateur magician. Since 1924 illustrated over 23 magic books plus catalogs and The Linking Ring since 1924 at age 18. Invented the Penetrating Silk (1926), which Joe Berg marketed; and the color-changing "Poker Chip of Camelio" (by 1932). Retired in 1960s to Pompano Beach, Florida, where he died of cancer.
Co-authored 3 booklets: Here's Magic (1930, with Joe Berg), Modernism in Pasteboard (1934, with Ralph Hull), and Smart Magic (1935, with Ralph Hull... | |
 ... Dec 1943 when retired from touring. Continued to write on magic and play local dates.
Invented Sympathetique card trick (well before 1934).
Wrote Namreh's Necromantic Novelties (1919-22, a series of booklets), Namreh's Potpourri (1927-29, a series of booklets), Namreh's New Magic (1928, a catalog), Namreh's Lincoln Rings [c1932], Money from Magic (1935, 32pp), Out of the Spook Cabinet (1947), etc. Tricks in Sphinx, Genii, and Hugard’s Magic Monthly. | |
 (USA: fl.1930s-70s). Inspired seeing a school-show magician. Dealer (The Lawston Fun and Magic Co.) in Queens Village, NY, by 1940 when he published a decent catalog (116pp). Thence moved his shop to various locations in Connecticut (by 1965) and Florida (by 1965 to at least 1970).
His eldest son Jeff manages his estate. Contact him through reflectivelyyours.com. | |
 ... psychic researcher. Magic collector. Presented his fine collection of books on magic and psychic phenomena to the London University Library in 1936.
Wrote several major books on psychic phenomena, including Revelations of a Spirit Medium (1922, as co-editor with Eric J. Dingwall), Short Title Catalogue (1929), Rudi Schneider (1930, 239pp), Leaves from a Psychist's Case-Book (1933), Supplement to Short Title Catalogue (1935), The Haunting of Cashen's Gap (1936, 211pp, with Lambert), Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter (1936), 50 Years of Psychical Research (1939, 383pp), The Most Haunted House in England (1940, 255pp), Search for Truth (1942), Poltergeist over England (1945, 423pp), and The... | |
 ... October 1846 - 15th May 1900)
At age 5 moved with parents to USA. Tin smith in New York City when began repairing magic props by 1868. Thence, since 1872, as prop maker-dealer, first as the Magical Bazaar from a basement room in his grimy house at No.321 Bowery, which issued its earliest known catalog (68pp) in 1875. In 1884 his catalog had grown to 120pp.
In 1887 Maurer was taught the back palm by a Spanish gambler from Mexico and he taught it to several magicians including Dr. J.W. Elliott and T. Nelson Downs who quickly spread its fame. Maurer operated since 1898 as The New York Magical Co. He died in New York City, his son taking over the business, but ran it only for a few years.... | |
(Britain: fl.1840s-90s)
Dealer (J. Theobald & Company) in London since c1840 in electrical goods, model steamboats, and engines, etc., added conjuring apparatus by 1877 when reported by Hoffmann and at least up to 1894, the year of its last dated catalog. Wrote Amateur Experimentalist (1876, 30pp) and The Amateur Magician (nd, 31pp). And as Prof. J.D. Theobald wrote Magic and Its Mysteries (1880, 144pp). | |
 (~1914 - 22nd December, 2003)
Ed Harris was a commercial illustrator and performed as chalk-talker from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was introduced to magic by his father Arthur, a professional magician. Drawing was his passion and so his father introduced him to chalk-talk, built him his first easel, and they performed together as "Arthur Harris and Son - Entertainers!"
He created the angled "Wheaties" logo that has appeared on boxes of cereal worldwide. In 1965, Ed started a business he called Magic-Art, supplying magicians with camera-ready clip-art kits for producing posters, flyers, postcards, letterheads, and ads. He had a column in New Tops called TricKartoons. He wrote several... | |
 ... mechanical abilities to build stage props for his use, as well as for other performers. Worked briefly with Thayer's until Jan 1950 when he bought the name and stock of retail supplies from Bill Larsen and moved the business to Traverse City, Michigan, where it almost immediately failed, the final catalog (#10) being printed but unpublished.
Wrote (as "Rudy Roxo") Modern Master Magic (1940, 47pp). Tricks in Genii, The Seven Circles, and The Die Box. | |
101 Tips for Psychic EntertainersRobert A. Nelson ... professional psychic entertainers that will make you an even better showman and performer.
Formerly sold for over $35 in today's money; now available in this revised and expanded edition for much less.
Are you a Nelson collector? This book was listed as No. 116 in the Nelson Enterprises catalog under the title 99 Tips, Tips and Wrinkles for the Crystal Gazer.
1st edition 1927, PDF 35 pages.
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1911 Supplementary Catalogue of New TricksAugust Roterberg From the introduction:
The splendid array of tricks offered in the following pages is the result of a most careful selection from several hundred new ideas. Of these new tricks, I have embodied in this catalogue only those which I consider to be the very best, this being practically the first time that the majority of these tricks have been offered for sale. All descriptive matter is original with me and the illustrations have been made from my own ideas, under my personal supervision, great care having been taken to neither exaggerate nor misrepresent the effects in either the reading matter... | $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
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