5 out of 5 I missed this item when I first received it and finally had time to take some new photos and read the instructions properly. What a great idea this is! Watch the video and see Daniel Cros perform some amazing miracles, not one shell is involved, and nothing is added or taken …
Jack Avis originally created Poker Pot c. 1967. Louis Gaynor has recreated Jack’s idea and produced this wonderful version. _EF Jack Avis took two classical principles and by blending them together has produced a clean cut magical effect for performing what is known as “CHINK-A-CHINK.” The box removes the need for shells or “extra units” …
_EF A summit meeting in the rarified atmosphere of Jack Avis and Lewis Jones. When two of the finest creative thinkers in magic get together, there is an inevitable outpouring of theory, digital skill, originality, and presentation that opens new avenues of performance. These are guaranteed to delight the close-up magician be he beginner or …
_EF With hundreds of tricks published in magazines over the past forty years, Jack Avis is one of the most prolific creators of modern close-up magic. Jack’s classical, thoughtful magic with cards, coins, mentalism, ring and rope, and assorted objects will impress you with its simplicity and elegance. Tricks Include: Christmas Coin Vanish Movie Coin …
This appears to be Jack Avis’s Poker Pot c. 1967 under a different name. Although based on what Daniel Cros himself says I’m not sure this is anything to do with Daniel Cros … This is my own handling of POKER POT; originally invented by Jack Avis and introduced to the public by Ken Brooke. …
_EF The routines in this book use subtle moves and principles rather than difficult sleight-of-hand producing entertaining card effects that anyone can do and, more importantly, use no gimmicks and no set-ups whatsoever. Grab an ordinary – even borrow – deck of cards and you’re ready to perform high-impact routines which will amaze your spectators. …
_EF In the tradition of Eugene Burger, Robert E. Neale, Ariel Frailich and others, here is a collection of card tricks that will entertain your spectators as much by the magic as by the interesting presentations with which they are clothed. The tricks are based primarily on prearrangement and most requite no sleight-of-hand; the ones …
_EF This book was first published in hardback in 1983 and reprinted twice. Then it was released as a quality large format softback and now it has been printed twice as a softback. Copies have just arrived from the printers and the book looks great with its new front cover and excellent printing. The book …
FOREWORD BY PETER WARLOCK _EF Still awaiting demobilisation from the army, the idea of publication of the Pentagram came into being. The spur, when reading Bruce Elliott’s comment regarding the birth of Abracadabra in February 1946, that this was obviously a domestic magazine. First the matter of name and then so many letters to friends …
FOREWORD BY PETER WARLOCK _EF Still awaiting demobilisation from the army, the idea of publication of the Pentagram came into being. The spur, when reading Bruce Elliott’s comment regarding the birth of Abracadabra in February 1946, that this was obviously a domestic magazine. First the matter of name and then so many letters to friends …