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The E-Sylum: Volume 22, Number 20, May 19, 2019, Article 14

MORE ON MAGICIAN PROFESSOR KING

Last week Jud Petrie asked for more information about the enigmatic magician "Professor King". -Editor

1875 King Ventriloquist Token obverse 1875 King Ventriloquist Token reverse

Jud Petrie adds:

I do have some information, but don't have the personal information on him, such as dates and places of birth and death. Bill Groom wrote an article on Professor King in the June 2017 NATCA 'Talkin Tokens'. King was probably a charlatan and fraudster. He was involved in a lawsuit over a scam in St. Albans Vermont where due to an error a prize went to someone other than the predetermined winner. I also have a newspaper article from February 1905 where Professor King, or someone using that name, performed a magic show in Homer, NY.

Ron Haller-Williams writes:

At http://www.magictoken.org/mtg.pdf you can find a catalog of magic tokens, of which 9 relate to ventriloquists (if you count all 3 versions of MT018).

See also (from over 7 years ago) http://ventdj.blogspot.com/2011/10/professor-king-token-1875.html and check out the pieces advertised at the right-hand side of http://maherstudios.blogspot.com/ plus the "hall of fame" ones at http://hofcoins.blogspot.com/

Julia Casey writes:

I wanted to forward a few notices I found from 1863 newspapers. I think based on the legends of the token being a near match to the wording used in the advertisements that this token can be dated to the Civil War token era.

St._Albans_Daily_Messenger_1863-08-06_2 New-York_Daily_Reformer_1863-06-05_3

Thanks, everyone. Julia also sent me the complete text of Bill Groom's article. -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: MAY 12, 2019 : Information Sought on Magician Professor King (https://www.coinbooks.org/v22/esylum_v22n19a10.html)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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