A very simple, yet beautifully made prop. A bank note
or blank piece of paper is placed into the tray. The blotter is then rolled
over the paper, changing it into a bank notel.... Bills/Money not included!
Price: £48
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Collector's
Money Maker
A very simple, yet beautifully made prop. A bank note
or blank piece of paper is placed into the tray. The blotter is then rolled
over the paper, changing it into a bank notel.... Bills/Money not included!
Price: £48 |
| ‘EXPERT
MANIPULATION OF PLAYING CARDS’ by Lewis Ganson For some years Davenports wished to reprint Lewis Ganson's "Expert Manipulation of Playing Cards" as we have long felt this work stood alongside the best ever written on the subject. Within the copy of the book, Lewis refers the reader to a book entitled "Exhibition Card Fans". Our feeling was that we should include the relevant parts of this long out-of-print book within this work to ensure that the information contained within the section on Card Fanning is as Lewis originally intended but to do this work justice we had to rephotograph the entire book. We believe this work to be one of the very best on the subject of classic card manipulation, including as it does a comprehensive section on card fans, techniques and methods rarely seen or used today. Here are extracts from Paul Fleming's Review III regarding "Expert Manipulation of Playing Cards". "We have no hesitancy in pronouncing it one of the very best discussions of back-hand card manipulation we have ever seen. So far as the material itself is concerned - and especially the section on back-palming - it is of so high an order that we can scarcely conceive of any card manipulator, whether expert or beginner, denying himself the pleasure and profit that a study of this book is sure to provide. Regarding the Card Fan sections. The instructions are so complete and so well illustrated that they should enable the would-be card-fanner, springer, spreader, and catcher to practice to his heart's content with every assurance of acquiring the desired skill." Hard Bound
with gold foil lettering, large format A4 size on quality paper, 121 pages
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Temptation By Gordon Bean. The effect is that a Three then an Ace jump around a trio of cards, and finally the Two jumps to a seemingly impossible location. The strength of Temptation is that a different card is used for each phase. This effectively short-circuits any suspicions along the lines of "There must be a duplicate of the card I'm looking for," since there obviously aren't six cards in your hands. The real strength of this routine is that since all the cards are examinable at the end, it is a practical as well as mind-blowing effect. It is therefore the perfect walk-around version of the Three-Card Monte .Price £13.50
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Finish by Jay Sankey
If you liked Jay's original Big Finish trick, you're going to love the new and improved Bigger Finish. A card is selected and returned to the pack. Four cards are then removed from the deck and the spectator is asked if her card is among them. It is! All four cards are given to the spectator to hold between her closed hands, but when she opens her hands she finds that they have melted into a single jumbo card! When she unfolds the jumbo card, it's found to match to her selection! Comes complete with two specially-printed jumbo cards, one for red bicyle decks and one for blue. The trick does not include the standard Bicycle deck you need for the trick, if you do not have one we can supply one at an aditional cost of £2 Price: £12.50
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Absolute
Magic by Derren Brown Following the success of Pure Effect, Derren Brown offers a detailed study of the most difficult task facing any close-up magician: how to make magic convincing. This is a rich and witty journey through the thinking of Britain’s foremost current magical performer, whose television specials have revolutionized mentalism and drawn massive viewing figures. Absolute Magic offers the profoundest thinking, expressed in the most memorable and vivid prose, and is a necessary modern classic for the magician or mentalist striving to make his performances more powerful. This is a manifesto for performing excellence, not a mere collection of routines. Those who study it carefully will find much practical information, not only on close-up magic (Derren’s emotion packed presentation for the floating ring, for example) and mentalism, but also his unique approach to theatrical pick-pocketing.Originally privately published by the author, Absolute Magic was only available directly from Derren via his password protected web site. Those fortunate few who were able to negotiate the web site and place their order have cherished their copies. With his performing career no longer affording him the luxury of filling orders, he has authorized its publication and the book is now available. Warning: This is not a book for the casual reader nor one who is easily offended! 251 pages, cloth bound.
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The Breakthrough Card
System by Richard Osterlind Imagine being able to name a card a spectator has chosen without looking at the cards. You just look in their eyes and name it as if you were reading their minds! Or, imagine standing on a stage and allowing a spectator to choose a handful of cards from a jumbo deck and naming the cards he holds one at a time. They'll swear that you're even able to tell which one they're looking at. These are not pie in the sky ideas. Every one of them is possible with the Osterlind Breakthrough Card System. It's a stacked deck but, unlike other cyclical stacks, defies detection by even the most astute spectators, with absolutely no tell-tale number or color sequences. Even a skilled mathemetician would be unable to unravel its diabolical secret, yet you'll learn it in no time flat and use it for the rest of your performing life. Since the publication of the slim manuscript that originally introduced Richard Osterlind's system to the magic and mentalism communities, he's developed learning aids, performance tips and, most significantly, killer effects that will literally leave your audiences speechless. None of this additional information was in that little book but it's all here now in one place, ready for you to put right into your act. These are the same effects Richard Osterlind uses for corporate audiences all around the world...and now they can be yours. It was a breakthrough in card magic in 1983...and it's only gotten better! Softcover, fully-illustrated
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Penumbra
Issue Five Price: £9
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Card College Volume 5 It's finally here! In the fifth volume of the acclaimed Card College series, Roberto Giobbi has prepared a graduation party! In previous volumes the reader has been given a remarkable collection of tools for creating astonishing card magic. In the same vein, Volume 5 begins with a meaty chapter of new techniques and strategies, which include methods for covertly arranging stacks during performance, obtaining a duplicate of a spectator's signature with his knowledge, and secretly conveying cards to and from the deck-powerful tools indeed. But then Volume 5 diverges from the established Card College formula. Judging that the reader now has more than a sufficient number of tools in his grasp, Mr. Giobbi provides eight chapters filled with tricks and routines that illustrate how various techniques are applied to create world-class card magic. These effects, however, are not mere constructions meant for teaching. Most have been drawn from Roberto Giobbi's professional repertoire-and because of this, even the classics of card magic are given a fresh gleam as Giobbi adds refinements won from years of performing experience. His choice of material is impeccable, featuring not only original effects and handlings of his own, but tricks and routines by world-masters as well. One finds such gems as Fred Kaps' presentation for The Signed Card in Box, along with Giobbi's cunning treatment of this modern classic, Henry Christ's fabulous Ace routine and a superb handling of a forgotten masterpiece by Charlie Miller. And everything is taught with the clarity and attention to detail for which the Card College series has become known. Open this book and welcome to the party-prepare to graduate! Some of the topics covered in Volume Five include: Making Secret Setups
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Watch Crystal A spooky and
bizarre effect using a round, flat, clear crystal glass and soft cleaning
cloth with a perfect image of a watch face. You tell a story about an old
pocket watch you once had and then invite a spectator to choose a series
of times which may or may not be important in their past life. With a free
and secret choice these times are used by the spectator to determine a time
on the cloth. When the time has been agreed and the spectator no longer
wishes to continue, you then breathe on the crystal to reveal the same time
that was determined by the spectator. Very easy to do, and the crystal and
superb quality cloth comes complete with a lovely carrying pouch and full
instructions. Unusual, simple and effective. Price £39 |
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Psychophysiological Thought Reading by Banachek and How to Read People's Minds by H.J. Burlingame Literally two
books in one! On one side of this 180-page hardcover is a reprint of H.J.
Burlingame's 1907 paperback release How to Read People's Minds which includes
some history on muscle reading and how it works along with a fascinating
section on training your dog to read minds! |
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Healed and
Sealed Soda It
was the talk of the 2001 FFFF convention, performed by David Blaine in his
national television special, "Vertigo" and now you, too will be
able to literally devastate both magicians and laymen alike with Swedish
magician Anders Moden's Healed and Sealed Soda. The Effect: An opened, emptied and crushed soda can slowly and visually heals itself, returning to it's original state-the hole in the top even magically reseals itself closed! To top off this mind-blowing routine you can even open the can with a pfzzzt! and pour the contents out into a glass! You'll receive the only authorized manuscript with variations in preparation, handling and performance plus a section with questions and answers which allows you to utilize this principle to it's fullest! Price £9.50 |
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Reality
Twister By Paul Harris A spectator examines your
new experimental "Reality Twister." It bears a remarkable resemblance
to a normal pieceof clear plastic, about the size of a credit card. The
spectator also looks over a pen ...which bears a remarkable resemblance
to a normal pen. Your spectator holds the pen on her open palm as you hold
the clear Reality Twister lens just above the pen so she can see the pen
directly through the lens. You give the lens a twist ...and the center of
the pen becomes transparent ...and then completely invisible! She can even
see right through her spread fingers where the pen was a moment ago. Another
twist of the Twister and the missing center of pen suddenly becomes visible!
You then slowly twist the Reality Twister and in full view the center of
the pen visibly distorts ...then melts itself into an extreme twist! Price
£12.50 |
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Vanishing Bandanna.You
explain to the audience that you subscribe to a mail order magic company
that sends you magic lessons on cassette tapes. You received one today and
brought it to show the audience how you learn your tricks. You open the
shipping box and remove a cassette tape. With any cassette player, you put
the tape in and start the lesson. After a short music introduction a pleasant
female voice explains that this is "The Lesson of the Vanishing Bandanna."
The voice tells you that you will need two props for this trick. The first
is a large dark colored square of fabric and the second being a yellow bandanna.
Upon these words you reach into the shipping box and bring out a piece of
dark fabric and a yellow BANANA, not a yellow bandanna! The voice continues
to explain that this lesson is about "Palming" and instructs you
to fold up the yellow bandanna and vanish it in the dark square of fabric.
This is done, but you are really folding and mashing up the banana...which
will get a great response of laughter fom the audience. The trick ends with
you vanishing the folded and mashed BANANA in the dark fabric square! Price
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Touching
Sky by Andrew Mayne A Guide to Levitating. Andrew
Mayne presents six ways to defy gravity. Whether
you're performing on stage or on the street, there's a method here for you!
Along with new presentations for three classic effects, Andrew presents
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| Impuzzibilities
by Jim Steinmeyer
Strangely Self-Working Conjuring. This 30-page booklet contains 13 self-working items including interactive tricks which are suitable for television or radio audiences. Contains: The Nine Card Problem, The Full Deck Problem, Dimes & Pennies, A Quarter to Nine, The One O'clock Mystery, The Three Mystery, The King Mystery, Understanding the Bermuda Triangle, The "Ten Boys" Poker Deal, The Five Card Mix, Automatic Poker, Three Card Monte, Teleportation Soft cover, staple bound, 30 pages. Price: £11.50 |
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Cardinal
Cards by Meir Yedid Price £8.50 |
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Wallet Wallop
by Hen Fetsch
In an instant a selected card vanishes under impossible conditions and appears in your wallet! You explain that the first time really wasn't fair for the audience because they didn't know what to expect...so you offer to repeat it. The spectator again chooses a card and it, too vanishes in an instant! You ask the spectator to pick up your wallet from the table and open it up...inside they find the missing card! A true one-two punch in the world of card-to-wallets. Uses any standard
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