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Revision as of 20:26, 5 June 2009

Edwin D. "Ed" Wolff (July 18, 1881 - June 30, 1962), born in San Antonio, Texas was an amateur magician that started magic late in life at the age of 48. Wolff was the head of an advertising agency, Wolff Associates, in Rochester, New York.

In the Toronto Star, September 3, 1935, it describes one of Ted Annemann's bullet catches, with Wolff being the person the pulled the trigger.

He was married to Zada and died in Long Beach, California.

Contributions

  • Created and marketed one of the first vanishing Milk Pitchers.
  • English for Magicians (column) in Linking Ring starting on August, 1934 (page 528)
  • Simplicity Spelling Effect in Sphinx February,1933
  • "Mind Testing Deck" (a gag) in J.G. Thompson, Jr.'s book "My Best" (1954)
  • Rice's Encyclopedia of Silks (Page 168), "Production Supreme".
  • Astral Ad in Practical Mental Magic By Theodore Annemann
  • Transient Money in Jinx No. 8 May 1935
  • Double Divination, Sphinx Vol 36 (1937)
  • THE HANDCUFFED SEER in Tops Vol 6 (1941)
  • How To Kill Magic (article) Linking Ring Vol 31, No. 12 (February 1952)

Books

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