5 out of 5 This beautiful item was created by Owen’s c. 1973 as a limited edition. It is a truly beautiful prop and an amazing production item. In essence this is a oversize version of the classic Bran Vase first described by Ponsin c. 1853 and later described in Professor Hoffmann c. 1876 (The …
4 out of 5 Locking Card boxes have been around at least as early as 1876 with Professor Hoffmann’s seminal Modern Magic and also 1897 with the publication of August Roterberg’s amazing and detailed book New Era Card Tricks but the locking mechanism’s in both Hoffman’s and Roterberg’s designs use springs and/or pressure. Even Thayer’s …
5 out of 5 This looks amazing!Here’s one from “Modern Magic” by Professor Hoffmann built with great precision by Douglas-Wayne Illusioneering. The little box is shown empty and placed on top of the column. Then a coin is borrowed and signed if desired and dropped in the small draw in the base. After the magic …
The Tenth of the Dr. Albo Books limited to 500 copies. _EF This is departure from the typical Albo book in that nearly 200 of the 444 total pages are dedicated to history rather than apparatus. The history chapter includes the following sections: Annals of the Priests, Magi, Jugglers, and Sorcerers – 2000 BC to 500 …
_EF They were the work of passion, these three volumes, and they were beautiful. They revealed the finest of magic sifted from a lifetime of experience. They were unique. Typewritten by the recipient of the A.M.A. Literary Fellowship and author of over 26 books of magic. Filled with hand drawn watercolor artwork and illustrations, and …
The Demon Handkerchief first appears in Professor Hoffmann’s Modern Magic c. 1876 (pg. 195) and it is basically the same as what we call the Devil’s Handkerchief today. _EF Viking’s Devil’s Hank is the finest on the market and affordable. With our hank you can vanish any small article without that tell-tale bulge found in …
This is a version of the Afghan Bands which is based upon the mathematical principle known as the Mobius Strip discovered by mathematicians in 1865 and adopted by magicians by the end of the 19th century. A description of the Afghan Bands appears in Later Magic by Professor Hoffmann (1904) and also in Vol. 4 …
This is another beautiful brass item from the craftsman Terry Roses. And as with Terry’s other brass collectible line it comes in a beautiful inlaid oak carrying case. I think we’ve all seen these types of device in Professor Hoffmann, however I’m not sure how many of us have actually used one. It really is …
The vanish of a deck of cards vs the vanish of a card case are two different but related effects. In the first effect you vanish the cards themselves but not the deck and in the latter you vanish the whole card case including the cards. When referring to a Vanishing Deck on this page …
This effect is described in Hoffmann’s More Magic (The Eight Coins and Two Brass Covers, pg. 163). _EF A mind-boggling, pocket-sized coin illusion during which a heap of four British large pennies pass mysteriously, one at a time, to join another heap of four large pennies. Each heap is momentarily covered with a beautiful, little …
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