NIXON, David (1919 – 78). David Nixon’s Stopwatch, Cigar Cu...

NIXON, David (1919 – 78). David Nixon’s Stopwatch, Cigar Cutter, and Ephemera Archive. 1950s – 70s. Including two early candid photographs of Nixon with the president of the Magic Circle Francis White, a later photograph of Nixon holding the Circle’s Maskelyne Award, a number of brochures and cards advertising his popular television programs, a die-cut brochure with rabbit motif for Nixon as the star of the 1960 Magic Circle Festival at London’s Scala Theatre, four issues of TV Mirror with stories regarding Nixon and one featuring him on the cover, three British theatre programs featuring Nixon on the bill, a small engraved brass cigar cutter bearing Nixon’s initials “DN” below the cutting mechanism, and a sturdy stopwatch engraved with Nixon’s name in intersecting lines on the back of the case.