Illusion Card Box
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Illusion Card Box
Product ID: 1852
The ultimate Card Illusion of making a signed card magically appear inside a closed wooden box.
You bring out a small wooden box complete with a lid, placing it down in full view on a table where it can be viewed from all sides. A playing card is freely chosen (no force) and signed by any spectator. The signed card is replaced back into the pack.
You hide the pack behind your back and shuffle it then attempt to find the signed card but fail. A spectator looks through the pack to find the card has vanished.
Anyone lifts the lid of the box to see a folded card inside, when you remove and unfold the card it proves to be the signed chosen one!
Illusion Card Box is nicely made of wood and measures 2.38 x 1.94 x 1.50 inches (6 x 4.9 x 3.8 cm). Cleverly gimmicked to perform the necessary secret switch. Note, the box is made for Bicycle Rider backed cards, use your own pack.
At the conclusion the box can be left on the table for examination by audience members.
This classic prop has a long history. Most people associate it with the late great Fred Kaps who used a ring box. This was one of the highlights of his lecture, where he made it clear that the method used had been shown to him by a German magician named Bruno Hennig.
Kaps had also shown it to his good friend Scotty York, who in turn modified the prop to allow a rattle of the card in the box before revealing it. It was York who later developed some of the best handlings and presentations of this prop.
Later variations were put out by Jamy Ian Swiss, Italian magician Bruno Canaldi, and in 1985 an 8-page section by Tommy Wonder in his excellent Books of Wonder vol.1, as the Card in the Ringbox.
Expensive models have also appeared from France, Germany and various manufacturers in the states. In 1997 this item was being sold at between £40 and £50 ($64 to $84), however we offer you this superb quality prop while our present stocks last at a Mr.'E' bargain price!
Only £19.95