Collector’s ESP Die by Secret Factory

As cool and reliable as the latest version of Anverdi’s Mental Dice is there are plenty of magicians that avoid any sort of electronics in their magic.  Luckily, there have been a number of effects where you can discern the value of the die on top without any electronics.  They began c. 1971 with Fred …

Review by Andy Martin for Collector's ESP Die by Secret Factory

5 out of 5 As cool and reliable as the latest version of Anverdi’s Mental Dice is there are plenty of magicians that avoid any sort of electronics in their magic.  Luckily, there have been a number of effects where you can discern the value of the die on top without any electronics.  They began …

BDM Safe Box by Bazar de Magia, Martin Pacheco

It has been 22 years since Bazar de Magic released Murphy’s Chest c. 1998 and this is their follow-up.  I really like it, I know it is not a cool wooden box which collector’s like the best, but as a practical and suspicion free lock box for a Seven Keys type of effect it is …

Review by Andy Martin for Betcha by Kent Bergmann

4 out of 5 One more from the talented Kent Bergmann! Before Kent became the king of 3D printing he created quite a stir with his Z-Wood (Zebrawood) line of magic. This is a rare beauty from those times. Anything from his Z-Wood Magic line is highly sought after by collectors. Betcha looks really pretty, …

Creating an Online Magic Collection

“It was twenty years ago today …” Twenty years ago, I began MartinsMagic.com.  I didn’t consider myself a serious collector, but I was accumulating a decent, modern collection including items from: Alan Warner, Mel Babcock, Richard Gerlitz, Collectors’ Workshop, Viking Mfg. My profession was creating complex web-systems and so I built a website for my …

Dice Mysteries by Steve Drury

If you love dice effects – and who doesn’t – you will love Steve Drury’s new book 🙂 It is a wonderful treasure trove of ideas, history and effects and at 582 pages it is huge! It is very detailed and thorough and is jam packed with useful information with almost everything to do with …

Review by Andy Martin for Dice Mysteries by Steve Drury

5 out of 5 If you love dice effects – and who doesn’t – you will love Steve Drury’s new book 🙂 It is a wonderful treasure trove of ideas, history and effects and at 582 pages it is huge! It is very detailed and thorough and is jam packed with useful information with almost …

Micro Run Rabbit Run (Limited Edition) by Holland Magic Studio

Harry Leat’s masterpiece, Run Rabbit Run, has never looked so good 🙂  Since my early teenage years, like 100’s of magicians before me, I saw the incredible entertainment value of Run Rabbit Run when working with children of all ages.  To this day I think it is one of the best children’s effects ever devised …

Review by Andy Martin for Keyrumba (Key Box) by Carl Williams

5 out of 5 My favorite Anverdi item is his very clever and perplexing Key Box c. 1982 from almost forty years ago!  Until recently I thought it was at the top of the food chain for effects that became known as The Seven Keys to Baldpate by Annemann and invented by Joseph Kolar c. …

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