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Petrie-Lewis Manufacturing Company
Petrie-Lewis Manufacturing Company (P&L) was located in New Haven, Connecticut from 1919 to 1968.
Named after the partners, John Petrie (1870-1954) and Thomas C. Lewis, it was founded when Petrie left the Mysto Magic Company to go into a partnership with Lewis in 1917. The company was later incorporated in 1923.
Lewis, a non-magician, left in the 1920s and was replaced by Petrie's son, J. Walter Petrie.
On John A. Petrie's death in 1954, proprietorship passed to J. Walter Petrie.
Its name and logo was purchased around 1969 by Abbott's.[1]
The firm's illustrious name was revived briefly around the mid-1980s by a dealer in Seffner, Florida.[2]
Honors
At the Yankee Gathering XII in 2008, NEMCA issued a medallion honoring the Petrie-Lewis Manufacturing Co. celebrating its contributions to magic collecting and conjuring history in New England.