1 review for Jo-Anne’s Country Cousin by Warren Hamilton
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Andy Martin –
There have been many versions of the Card Duck over the years. It was invented by Laurie Ireland and marketed by him as Otto, The Automaton Duck.
Warren Hamilton’s Jo-Anne – The Improved Card Duck has been the Card Duck standard for many years. The paint job is amazing and the mechanism to pick the ducks is consistent and reliable.
Warren created three main versions of his duck:
The main differences with the original and The Cousin are:
Otherwise the actual card picking mechanism is basically the same. Though I will say this Cousin is probably the most reliable duck I have ever tried. In tests I picked up twenty cards one after the other without a single skip or miss. That is one reliable duck 🙂
Performing Dickie and Jo-Anne for over forty years has helped me realize that it really doesn’t really matter what the prop looks like as most of the magic emanates from the performer. It does help if the duck can actually pick the cards smoothly on queue, but most of the other tweaks and improvements pale when compared with a solid routine and a charismatic performance.
This is true for most magic effects and why the best performers have relatively few actual effects in their repertoire because the audience wants to see the person perform almost regardless of what effect they actually perform.
That being said how could anyone not fall in love with Jo-Anne’s Country Cousin? 🙂