The magician shows three jumbo cards and wraps them in a mat. Removing two of them from the mat, the magician says that the third card has vanished. The audience is not impressed because they see the third card peering out from behind the mat. After the usual business, the audience demand to see the card which turns out to read STUNG. Still not satisfied, the audience ask to see the back of the card. The magician finally turns it round to reveal STUNG AGAIN.
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.
Worn as a buttonhole, it changes colour on the command of the wearer. The YIMKA logo is on the back.
A candle placed in the case, vanishes, and in its place is found a silk handkerchief. Complete with Davenport instructions. Made of cardboard, this trick was sometimes included in magic sets made by Gus Davenport. Another example, in different fancy paper, may be seen in the lower drawer of the double decker magic set N3287.
The magician places a number of different coloured silk handkerchiefs on a chair and a member of the audience selects one. The magician takes the handkerchief and rolls it up in his hands, at which point it turns into a billiard ball of the same colour. Complete with Davenport instructions.
The performer wears a white carnation-like flower on his lapel. At his command, the flower transforms into a large sunflower. The transformation is surprising and amusing. Complete with instructions from the Abbott Magic Novelty Co., Colon, Mich.
This is a bizarre trick by any standard. It is reasonable to ask why a butterfly should be produced from two slices of toast. I will not begin to explain it, but urge readers to look at Leat’s own three page description which I have included with the illustrations. The advertisement reveals not only the play on words on which the humour depends, but also an insight into Leat’s sense of humour.
You show an illustrated silk that is not faked in any way and then – by pulling it through a borrowed ring – find that the illustration has changed to an entirely different one. The second image here shows how the illustration has changed. This is a clever idea and the illustrated advertisement includes a patter story from Leat. The advertisement is from Leat’s Leaflets No.30, September 1933. In order not to give the secret away in the advertisement, note that Leat has used a very different image for the transformed figure.
This is an example on silk of the well-know illusion: Is it a rabbit or is it a duck? Manufacturer not known.
This is a magical gag rather than a deeply mysterious trick. A number of ribbons are shown and they suddenly turn into a string of sausages. Despite being a strange plot, or perhaps because of it, ribbons to sausages usually causes a big laugh, as the advertisement promises.
This idea by Allan Lambie was sold by Davenports with instructions copyright L. Davenport & Co. They also called it The Invisible Birth of a Flower. The effect is that a length of ribbon about three feet long attached to a circular tag is shown freely. Then instantly, without covering in any way, it transforms itself into a flower which the performer places in his button-hole.
The basic plot is that a spectator signs a card which shows a boy climbing up the rope. However, when the spectator next looks at the card the boy has vanished, to be replaced by a sign saying OUT TO LUNCH. The cards are missing, but the instructions give a price of 3s 6d for purchasing additional cards. Although the manufacturer is not known, it is likely to be a UK firm given the mention of UK money. See N3116 for a Davenports Demon Series version of the same trick.