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misc:sponge_rabbits [2014/05/24 18:25] stephenminchmisc:sponge_rabbits [2014/11/07 00:53] stephenminch
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-Frances Marshall, in //The Magic Dealer//, Vol. 2No. 5, credits the Sponge Rabbits to Jack Strothers. However, in //Magic Manuscript//, Vol. 8 No.2, Sept./Oct. 1986, p. 39, Charles Reynolds claims that Carlo (Sommer) invented the idea behind the Multiplying Sponge Rabbits, by marketing a trick in 1930 called "The Gopher Birds". Bob Nelson is commonly credited with the later sponge-rabbit variation, which he marketed as "Peter Rabbit Goes to Town".+Frances Marshall, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14214/The+Success+Book+Volume+Two/170|The Success Book]]// and also in //The Magic Dealer//, Vol. 2 No. 5, credits Jack Strothers as the first to cut and sell sponge rubber in the form of little rabbits. 
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 +In //Magic Manuscript//, Vol. 8 No.2, Sept./Oct. 1986, p. 39, Charles Reynolds claims that Carlo (Sommer) invented the idea behind the Multiplying Sponge Rabbits, by marketing a trick in 1930 called "The Gopher Birds"(See also //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13439/Magicol+No+151+160/115|Magicol]]//, No. 152, Aug. 2004, p. 3.) Bob Nelson is commonly credited with the later multiplying sponge-rabbit variation, which he marketed c. June 1941 as [[http://askalexander.org/display/37603/Linking+Ring/73|"Peter Rabbit Goes to Town"]], showing himself as the creator. Coincidentally, in early 1942 Jack Strothers moved from Chicago to Columbus, Ohio, to work for [[http://askalexander.org/display/37725/Linking+Ring/63|Nelson]].
  
 See also [[misc:sponge_balls|Sponge Balls]]. See also [[misc:sponge_balls|Sponge Balls]].
  
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