Cleopatra’s Ring Tower by Dietmar Willert, Wolfgang Grosskopf

Here we have another Egyptian styled item from Dietmar Willert, this time Willert has recreated Wolfgang Grosskopf’s amazing Ring Tower.  And what a wonderful job he has done too.  This is the first one I have seen of these and I’m not sure if they ever arrived in the USA via Joe Stevens when he was promoting a few of Dietmar Willert’s other items c. 1990.  On the bottom it shows “1/88”.  This does not mean 1 of 88 made but #1 and the year it was manufactured: 1988.  So this is likely the first one that Mr. Willert made.

The effect is a really wonderful impossible vanish from the clever mind of Wolfgang Grosskopf.  The thing that is interesting about Grosskopf’s original routine is that it is different from how the later ones from Vienna Magic (and others) were described – instead of a ring penetration, this is a ring vanish and reproduction from impossible location.  You could perform either effect but I prefer the presentation where the ring just completely vanishes and is found somewhere else as I think it gives less clues as to what possibly could have happened.

I found a really cool ring appearance that works very well with this.  However, for the routine I show in the video you would need to have a duplicate ring which was not a problem for me, but might be for you.  In which case you would need to use a different method to retrieve the ring such as a RSVP Hero box.

Includes:

• The Ring Tower
• The stand, cover, and staff.
• AppeaRing by Bopoco Magic ($130 retail bonus).
• Two duplicate rings ($5 bonus).
• Copy of printed instructions for Grosskopf’s original routine

Effect: This is the kind of effect that will even fool yourself! You’ll do it, and you won’t believe your eyes! Borrow a ring and place it under a clear Plexiglas cover, as shown in the photo. The ring, trapped under the clear plastic, is covered with the Magic Tower. The top of the tower is removed to show the ring still inside the plastic box. The tower top is replaced. A small magic wand is pushed through the sides of the tower, well above the ring and plastic box.

When the tower is removed, the ring has vanished! The crystal box is empty! The wand is removed and the tower is also shown to be empty and the ring is found in some other safe place (use your favorite method, but this RSVP Hero box is perfect.)

Basic Routine: Introduce this tower as the place where Cleopatra keeps her most favored diamond ring which is said to have magical powers. To safeguard it, the ring is kept under a protective box, inside the special tower, and secured by a magic staff.

One day there was a lot of action in the tower because the ring had disappeared, but Cleopatra was not concerned because the ring was magical and would automatically travel to an even more secure location by her night stand, a red ring case.

Completely mechanical.  No threads; no magnets. The method will delight you, for sure. Easy to do.

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