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Otto Maurer
| Otto Maurer | |
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| Born | October 28, 1846 Gemeisheim, Germany |
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| Died | May 15, 1900 (age 53) New York City |
Prof. Otto Maurer a manufacturer of magical apparatus in America.
Beginning in the 1870s and for over thirty years, Maurer was established at 321 Bowery, New York City. He was the founder of the New York Magical Co., later located at 1460 Broadway, Brooklyn Borough, New York City. He sold props and gave lessons.
His customer and friends included Trewey, Imro Fox, Horace Goldin, Arnold De Biere, E. A. Hendrickson, Frank Ducrot, Herrmann, T. Nelson Downs, Harry Houdini and Howard Thurston.
According to Mr. Selbit's book, The Magician's Handbook, Maurer was the first to teach the Back Palm to American magicians, which he had learned it from a Mexican gambler.
Dr. James William Elliott claimed that he demonstrated the slight to Morrelliaux Berntz Cortelli who in turn demonstrated it to Otto Maurer[1]
His business was carried on by his son, Otto Maurer, Jr.[2]
References and External Links
- Cover - The Boy Magician, Vol. 1, No. 8 (Novmeber 1909)
