_EF Volume 7 of 8. Volume 7, lessons 84 to 91 in the course series. includes wonderfully clear directions for doing over 200 magic tricks, organized in the following chapters: More Mental Magic, Card Magic, Rope Magic, Novelty Magic, Money Magic, Silk Magic, Illusions, and Late Arrivals. This final volume in the 7-volume set was …
The Flip-Over Vanish was invented by Jack Gwynne c.1928 , and first marketed by Thayer c.1933 and first published in The Sphinx in March 1935 (Jack Gwynne by David Charvet). Though some claim that Gwynne did not invent the box at all. For example, Okito (Theo. Bamberg) wrote a letter to Alton Sharpe on Jan. …
Read a great article by Nick Lewin about Roy Johnson here. For me The Dunbury Delusion of Chapter five was almost as important to me as Paul Curry’s Out of This World. It was one of my favorite routines for years, and I think high time I brought it back into rotation! _EF Illustrated by …
_EF Though equally as convincing as the Magna Coin Box, the possibilities here are completely different. This is a thin walled, light-weight Okito type box that will stand minute examination, yet has a gimmick machined into it so undetectable that even we can’t spot it. Transpositions, penetrations, vanishes and productions are all possible with this …
_EF An Okito Box routine with an endless variety of incredible vanishes, productions, and penetrations plus a knock-out finish. Spectator places coin in box and covers with lid. Box is set on address book and instantly, coin passes through box and address book. Routine is climaxed by spectator seeing five coins in box up until …
If you like Coin Boxes you’ll love what you can do with this special Box from Fred Lowe. It certainly takes some practice to perform the routines smoothly but no more than most other Okito boxes. The box and coins are perfectly made and you can perform pretty much anything you can do with a …
An interesting coin box from John Mulholland that comes with a unique coin gaff created specifically for the box. Look in the expanded version of Bobo’s New Modern Coin Magic (pg 491) to find some effects for this box. _EF Through a cross-breeding of the Okito Box and the Al ‘N’ Nate Coin Box Mulholland produced …
_EF Illustrated by Nelson Hahne, edited by John Braun. New Modern Coin Magic includes four additional Chapters in over 150 additional pages- that are not in Modern Coin Magic. It is my understanding that when Magic Inc. renewed the copyright for The New Modern Coin Magic, they didn’t realize this didn’t include the previous version of the book, Modern …
The Travelling Blocks, Baffling Blocks, or ABC Blocks began life as The Filtering Block Illusion manufactured by Floyd Thayer c. 1929 and invented by William Wisnewski c. 1928. It has been a popular item with many craftsmen and dealers ever since including: Conradi-Horster, Okito, Abbott’s, Mel Babcock, and Viking Mfg. This set was built by …
_EF Amusing anecdotes and great Kid Show Advice. This is the second book I’ve read by Frances Ireland (Marshall) written in 1952. It’s not as informative or detailed as her other one, You Don’t Have To Be Crazy, but it still makes for interesting, light reading. It has many anecdotes of famous and not so …