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Leo Keller
| Leo Keller | |
| Born | September 8, 1883 Heiligenbrunn, Austria |
|---|---|
| Died | January 23, 1949 (age 65) Allentown, Philadelphia |
Leo Keller (1883-1949) was one of the early S.A.M. members and an authority on German made apparatus.[1]
Biography
Keller came to the United States in 1903. As a young boy in his teens, he attended magicians'school in Vienna, Austria and later attended schools in Kansas City, Kansas, and in New York City.
He performed many of his own shows in Pennsylvania, in the region around Allentown and Northampton.
He was thoroughly interested in rising card tricks and had one of the largest collection of them at the time, with more than twenty-five different forms of mechanical apparatus designed to cause cards to rise from a pack.[2][3]
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