T. J. Crawford

Thomas J. Crawford ( 1871 - 1952) was one of the founders of the Cercle Magique of Nashville, Tennessee, a President of the IBM, a former editor of The Linking Ring, and a specialist in coin magic.

T. J. Crawford
Born	Thomas J. Crawford August 21, 1871 Columbia, Tennessee
Died	October 3, 1952 (age 81) Nashville, Tennessee

Crawford was a printer-postal clerk by profession, considered himself an amateur, but performed often for the public.

He is the originator of a number of popular moves in manipulative magic, and one of his original coin vanishes is described in the "Art of Magic," by T. Nelson Downs.

Crawford edited the Amateur Column in the Sphinx for sixteen years, starting in 1904. He also contributed the column "OLD TRICKS IN NEW CLOTHES" for the Thayer's Magical Bulletin.

Crawford was the organizer of the Cercle Magique of Nashville, a President of the IBM (1938-1939) and an editor of the Linking Ring in the late 1930s also. Later he would also do the column "Have A Card" in the Linking Ring (during the 1940s.)

He died in Nashville at the age of 81.

References

• Who's Who in Magic, Sphinx, July, 1931
• Cover Genii 1938 February
• Obit Genii 1952 November