Five Vintage Magic Catalogs From U. F. Grant.
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Five vintage catalogs from U. F. Grant. These are really great. Undated but probably circa 1940s and 1950s.***Please note conditions in photos (pages are generally intact, some covers are not attached catalogs)***
Ulysses Frederick Grant (1901-1978) was a magic dealer in New York City between 1925-1939 and later in Columbus, Ohio until his death in 1978. Magic maker R.N. Menge added many of his own inventions to the Grant line. Inventions to which both Grant and Meng...e contributed were sold as "G. & M." such as the "G & M Suspension Board", the "G & M Passe Passe Bottles", and so on. They parted ways and became rivals and Grant began working closely with Don Tanner who wrote and edited many of Grant's books. In 1964, Grant turned the business over to his daughter Mary Ann King becoming "MAK Magic". MAK Magic still manufactures many of his items, which is still run by his daughter and now grandson Jimmy P. King.
Grant was a prolific inventor: The Farmer and the Witch (c 1935), Walking thru a Ribbon (c 1937), Alagen Rope (with Winston Freer c 1939), 1942), Temple Screen (c 1944), Slate of Mind (1947), Devil's Newspaper (c 1948), Chink Cans (c 1949), Citation (1949), Pig Turns 'round Cow Trick (c 1955), Witch Doctor Can (c.1958), Chen-Lee Water Suspension (c 1962), Strat-o-Spheres (c 1962), and Candle-Lite (c 1963). Mystery of the Temple Jewels, Head Dagger Chest, Any Card Called For Napkin, Atomic Vision, Ball Box (Die Box), Brilliant Ring Box, silk magic inventions are described in Rice's Encyclopedia of Silk Magic and his rope magic inventions in the Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks.
U.F. Grant wrote: Illusion Secrets - Fifteen Great Illusions (1934), Six Modern Levitations (1943), Tricks for Kid Shows, Victory Carton Illusions (1955), Reading Secrets, Grant's Fabulous Feats of Mental Magic by Don Tanner (1954), Super Magical Secrets (1928) , G&M Magic Course (with Orbit (1963).Ulysses Fredrick Grant who was born in Millerton, New York on January 12, 1901, and would become one of the greatest minds in modern day magic. Grant was the great, great grandson of President Ulysses S. Grant. Gen as he was called by family and friends, became interested in magic at a very young age after his step-father took him to a magic show at the circus. Gen followed the magician all day. In the early twenties, Grant began to sell magic effects and props out of his Pittsfield, Massachusetts home. After living in New York and then in Colon Michigan, where he worked for the Abbott Magic and Novelty Company, Grant built a reputation as a developer of good solid magic. In the early forties, he moved to Columbus, Ohio with his new bride and set up the U.F. Grant Magic Company. Around 1944 he hooked up with R.N. Menge and began to produce products under the name G & M.
Ulysses Frederick Grant (1901-1978) was a magic dealer in New York City between 1925-1939 and later in Columbus, Ohio until his death in 1978. Magic maker R.N. Menge added many of his own inventions to the Grant line. Inventions to which both Grant and Meng...e contributed were sold as "G. & M." such as the "G & M Suspension Board", the "G & M Passe Passe Bottles", and so on. They parted ways and became rivals and Grant began working closely with Don Tanner who wrote and edited many of Grant's books. In 1964, Grant turned the business over to his daughter Mary Ann King becoming "MAK Magic". MAK Magic still manufactures many of his items, which is still run by his daughter and now grandson Jimmy P. King.
Grant was a prolific inventor: The Farmer and the Witch (c 1935), Walking thru a Ribbon (c 1937), Alagen Rope (with Winston Freer c 1939), 1942), Temple Screen (c 1944), Slate of Mind (1947), Devil's Newspaper (c 1948), Chink Cans (c 1949), Citation (1949), Pig Turns 'round Cow Trick (c 1955), Witch Doctor Can (c.1958), Chen-Lee Water Suspension (c 1962), Strat-o-Spheres (c 1962), and Candle-Lite (c 1963). Mystery of the Temple Jewels, Head Dagger Chest, Any Card Called For Napkin, Atomic Vision, Ball Box (Die Box), Brilliant Ring Box, silk magic inventions are described in Rice's Encyclopedia of Silk Magic and his rope magic inventions in the Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks.
U.F. Grant wrote: Illusion Secrets - Fifteen Great Illusions (1934), Six Modern Levitations (1943), Tricks for Kid Shows, Victory Carton Illusions (1955), Reading Secrets, Grant's Fabulous Feats of Mental Magic by Don Tanner (1954), Super Magical Secrets (1928) , G&M Magic Course (with Orbit (1963).Ulysses Fredrick Grant who was born in Millerton, New York on January 12, 1901, and would become one of the greatest minds in modern day magic. Grant was the great, great grandson of President Ulysses S. Grant. Gen as he was called by family and friends, became interested in magic at a very young age after his step-father took him to a magic show at the circus. Gen followed the magician all day. In the early twenties, Grant began to sell magic effects and props out of his Pittsfield, Massachusetts home. After living in New York and then in Colon Michigan, where he worked for the Abbott Magic and Novelty Company, Grant built a reputation as a developer of good solid magic. In the early forties, he moved to Columbus, Ohio with his new bride and set up the U.F. Grant Magic Company. Around 1944 he hooked up with R.N. Menge and began to produce products under the name G & M.
