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Posgate (often misspelled "Postgate"), who worked full time as a sales correspondent and direct mail manager, was a semi-professional kid-show magician. | '''Bruce Posgate'''(often misspelled "Postgate"), who worked full time as a sales correspondent and direct mail manager, was a semi-professional kid-show magician. | ||
Posgate was inspired seeing a magician at a very young age and started learning magic from library books. <ref>Bruce Posgate Bought A Magic Book by Sid Lorraine in Linking Ring September, 1955</ref> | Posgate was inspired seeing a magician at a very young age and started learning magic from library books. <ref>Bruce Posgate Bought A Magic Book by Sid Lorraine in Linking Ring September, 1955</ref> | ||
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| Born | Bruce Dale Posgate December 7, 1901 Sunderland, Durham, England |
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| Died | November 13, 1990 (age 88) |
Bruce Posgate(often misspelled "Postgate"), who worked full time as a sales correspondent and direct mail manager, was a semi-professional kid-show magician.
Posgate was inspired seeing a magician at a very young age and started learning magic from library books. [1]
He debut in London in 1924 and has performed as "Uncle Bruce". He moved to Canada in 1947 and was a long time "Forum" columnist for New Tops (1961-1989). He also wrote articles for the Magic Circular, Abra, and Linking Ring.
He served as IBM President from 1981 until 1982.[2]
He died at the age of 89 after a two-year struggle with cancer.[3]
Awards
- 1975 Louis Bertol Trophy.
Books
- Kid Showmanship (1961)
- Dove Pan-Orama (1972)
- Table Hopping (1975)
- Art of Blowing Bubbles (1980)
- Necklace Trickery (1982).