A classic card magic trick that will definitely blow them away!
Here's the effect: Let your spectator remove a card from the deck and sign it. Shuffle it back into the deck. Placing the deck behind your back, you brag that you can locate the spectator's card INSTANTLY, even without looking at the deck. When the spectator takes your challenge, you point to a small wooden box that has been sitting on a table in front of you the whole time. Picking up the box FOR THE FIRST TIME, you open it and dump the contents into your hand- IT IS THE SPECTATOR'S SIGNED CARD!
This beautifully constructed card box will make you the talk of your friends! It has a real WOW effect. And it looks great displayed on your magic library shelf!
Please note: this is an Intermediate Level trick, because you must know how to control a card in the deck. If you need to learn that move, please see instructional DVDs or books like Royal Road To Card Magic or others shown below.
History and Trivia
This prop has a long history. Most magicians attribute the original version of this trick to the late great Fred Kaps, who used a ring box into which a folded duplicate card was glued. 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. Mr. Kaps had shown it to his good friend Scotty York, who had modified the prop to allow a rattle of the card in a box before revealing it. It was Scotty York who later developed some of the best handlings and presentations of his 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. Wild Magic had made a series of these boxes, one for cards, one for money and one for blank billets. Models have appeared from England, France, Germany as well as from various manufacturers in the U.S.
- information supplied by Magic Makers, Inc.
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Illusion Card Box
