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Envelope with left border having great advertising for the magician Ray Corbin:
Mailed to 'Jimmy Cain, The Magician, P.O. Box 1654, Marion North Carolina'. Postmarked ‘WESTMINSTER MD NOV 11 1962’.
No contents.
Light vertical fold left side, light creases.
4 ⅛” X 9 ½”
Ray-Mond (1916-2003), born Raymond Monroe Corbin, began a professional performer as a teenager with Dr. Miles medicine show.
By 18 he was working as a mentalist-mindreader act as "Rajah Ramo". At the age of 22, he was performing stage magic in Vaudeville. He would bill himself as the "Aristocrat of Deception" after seeing a Hellmann's Mayonnaise truck advertising its product as the "Aristocrat of Mayonnaise."
Opened his Ray-Mond's Studio of Magic in Westminster, Maryland in around 1946.
He founded the Ray-Mond Assembly S.A.M. in Westminster, Maryland, was one of the organizing founders of the Society of Young Magicians and served as the National SAM President (1984-85). He was a Silver Star member of the Inner Magic Circle, London, England and a member of the Order of Merlin Excalibur in the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
Ray-Mond was also elected into the Society of American Magicians Hall of Fame in 1990.
