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The June 2022 issue included:
– more on David Devant’s early career.
– Uri Geller and mind power.
– Sakkaku Scale by Tenyo – a magical optical illusion.
– create wooden Japanese furniture by taking a block of wood to pieces. It’s a puzzle putting it together again.
– the link between World War II gas masks and Davenports conjurers’ wax.
– the Old and the New Magic: a look at Davenports 1956 catalogue.
This is a clever combination of a traditional optical illusion and new thinking. It builds on the plot of the traditional boomerang trick. The magician shows two plastic strips with cats on them. To the eyes of the spectators, it appears that the two strips stretch and shrink. For the climax, the magician proves that the two plastic strips have actually changed size. The trick was originally available in Japan from Tenyo. Complete with instructions in Japanese and English.
The magician invites a spectator to insert her finger into a hole that passes through a transparent frame. The magician then slides a solid blade into the top slot and lowers the blade. Magically, the blade penetrates completely through the spectator’s finger. Magicians have invented numerous guillotine illusions in the past, however none have utilised the principle incorporated in Smart Guillotine. Complete with instructions in Japanese and English.
This was a gift given to all attendees of the FISM magic convention in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1991. The novelty is that when a coin is dropped through the slit in the top of the box, it immediately vanishes, although it can still be heard rattling around in the interior which apparently contains no more than a top hat floating in mid-air. This is a well made puzzling illusion. US Patent No. 4967953. Created by Tenyo. Made in Japan.
This is a mysterious novelty. Put a coin in the slot at the top of the money box and watch it vanish before your eyes. The box can be opened only by those who know the secret.
Bought by John Davenport in Japan. When a coin is dropped into the top of the money box, it lands in the internal small box at the bottom and is seen to have mysteriously shrunk.
Made by Tenyo, Japan. Although this is strictly a magic trick, it partly depends on an amazing optical effect, the details of which are not divulged here so as to protect the secret of the trick.
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