_EF Volume Three contains instruction on such invaluable sleights as the push-off double turnover, one-handed top palm, the Ascanio spread, gamblers cop, the Vernon addition, false displays and riffle shuffles, the convincing control, the Olram subtlety, and much more-including many powerful card tricks and routines. Mr. Giobbi includes original ideas and refinements, guaranteeing every reader …
Lennart Bondesson of Sweden invented Silkola c. 1966 and he sold it to Supreme Magic Co. of England when it was first marketed c. 1967. Although this was about the same time Tannen’s started selling it too. Howard Hale had produced the prettiest version until Michael Baker recently released his version. _EF This beautiful effect …
_EF Photographs by Hannah Ammar, Design by Barbara Palmer. Excellent coverage of the cups & balls in this finely produced, glossy page book from L&L Publishers. The word “Complete” in the title is not because this book is a full encyclopedia of every Cups & Balls move ever created. Rather, it is complete in that …
This was devised and manufactured by Steve Schieszer c. 1998. He had the idea whilst he was performing table side at Matthew’s Restaurant inside the Grace Inn Hotel. The handling to remove the quarter is based on John Bannon’s Vacuum Packed and is used with John’s permission. _EF The magician causes a quarter to magically penetrate …
_EF At Any Time during your performance hand out the Cup and Ball for examination! After you perform a Chop routine of penetrations and vanishes, hand it out to be examined. The mechanism is marvelous! Only Mikame would have thought of it! And only Mikame could manufacture this revolutionary, precision gimmicked Cup! The SUPER Cup …
_EF El Duco’s Dice Stack, a fantastic new close-up routine with dice. Bring out three 1″ dice. Two of the dice are yellow and one is red. Each of the dice has a hole drilled through the middle. Stack the three dice on a metal rod attached to a wooden base. The red die is …
_EF Volume 4 is beautifully produced in the same style as Vol 3 and the contents are even more outstanding. Edited by Martin Breese and Bob Gill and illustrated by David Britland. Contents (from book ToC): 7 Foreword 11 Psychic Roulette 21 The Unlimited Principle 38 Ultimate Challenge Thought and Clairvoyance 48 The Hot Chair 54 …
_EF (DrDanny): Illustrated by Earle Oakes. First of a planned trilogy about Larry Jennings’ work; this mostly covers the 1960s-early 70’s. Beautifully produced and written, typical of Kaufman’s work, and this is clearly a labor of love on his part. Required reading for cardmen. Six years in the making, Jennings ’67 contains vintage magic with …
_EF While Ed Marlo was famous for his ingenious creations with cards, he also devoted a great deal of creativity to magic with other objects including coins, bills, cups and balls, silks, mentalism, dice, linking pins, sponge balls, chop cup, and various small tricks usually sold to kids such as the ball vase, magic frame, …
_EF Mike Close as well as others constantly refer to many of the huge number of effects in this gold mine of interesting and useful material – featuring a very high percentage of non-card material. For over 30 years, Karl Fulves has published some of the greatest journals devoted to close-up ever produced. The Pallbearers …