Kaymar Magic Co.

This trick has a novel way of divining a card. The trick involves eight cards, each with the name of a tune and a picture of a record on it. The cards are shuffled and one removed, but its face is not shown to the magician. The magician discovers the tune by placing the card upside down on a match stick and spinning it, apparently listening to the ‘tune’ it makes. The magician then names the tune correctly. The cards all have a small hole in their centre to aid the card being spun on the match stick. Complete with instructions copyright Kaymar Magic, a company owned by Harry Baron.

A card trick with an unusual plot. A blank miniature card is shown and dropped into a small stack of regular sized cards, noting the value of the card which it is dropped in front of, let’s say the Four of Clubs. The magician then SQUEEZES the pack and, when the cards are shown again, the noted card is now blank and the previously shown miniature blank card has now turned into a miniature Four of Clubs. Complete with instructions but missing some of the cards. A Kaymar Magic trick.

This coin stack is from The Kaymar Magic Co. in Billericay, England. It was a gift from Harry Baron, the owner, to John Davenport in 1986. Six tenpenny pieces are placed in a stack on the back of a spectator’s hand, and then covered with the tray from a matchbox. The cover is lifted, the tenpenny pieces have vanished, and in their place is a stack of pound coins. Complete with instructions which give a routine by Harry Baron. The instructions also include a routine by Gus Davenport who was a very good friend of Harry. Harry explains that Gus made quite a cameo out of this trick in the earlier days when people were familiar with collar studs that men had in their collars. Gus would patter about Lord Derby, a famous racehorse owner of the time, who was also an inveterate one for making wagers. The story is that he was induced to wager his valuable Stud of horses on a certain race. The stake of cash was put up (represented by the stack of coins). However the culmination of the proceedings was that the gambler lost his money and Lord Derby still had his “STUD” . . . at which point the matchbox is lifted to show that the coins have vanished leaving a STUD in their place.