From the 1930s. This is a full color lithograph cutout of Charlie McCarthy. Its mouth and eyes move via tab on the rear. Slight crease around mouth and slight tear where legs bend. You can put Charlie on your knee and talk to yourself! Click to enlarge photo.
Price is $74 plus shipping and insurance.
A classic coin effect based on the old comic strip Maggie & Jiggs. Made by Fred Haenchen. Mint condition. Coin vanishes and reappears elsewhere; then returns. One just sold on Martinka for $371!!
Price is $175 plus shipping.
Original and rare vanishing Heinz-shaped Ketchup bottles made by Norm Nielsen in the 1970s. No longer made because bottle shape is a Heinz trademark. In a recent auction, the "full" bottle sold for $225! This is for both the "Full" and the "Empty" versions of this well-made, durable effect. Click photo to enlarge.
SOLD.
These are the original Petrie & Lewis Stretch-It Boomerangs! As popular as this trick must have been, they are very hard to find. Except here, of course. Click photos to enlarge.
You know most of the effect. Ask the audience which one is larger/longer. When held like the photo, the bottom one appears longer. You pretend to stretch the "shorter" one and then hold it on the bottom. It now appears longer. Of course, P&L added a surprise ending. Their perfectly constructed gimmick (see photo), allows you to make one of the boomerangs shorter. What a great trick!
Each boomerang is hallmarked twice with the P&L logo and Pat Pend (once on each side). A fine collectible. Comes with photocopy of original instructions.
Price is $115 plus US shipping and insurance.
What you see above are two metal tubes in fine shape, two celluloid inserts and one glass. You can have the glass, when covered, vanish or produce liquids/fish/floating carrots from either tube. Just lift off the insert as you lift the tube. Or get a second glass and do a liquid passe passe or a "Flying Fish" effect. Click photo to enlarge. Only two known.
Price is $475 plus shipping and insurance.
Measuring 8 1/4 inches tall and 10 inches wide, this is a gleaming, lacquered Morrissey Lota. Slightly scratched. Click photo to enlarge.
SOLD.
This is it. The original Russ Walsh appearing table in pristine condition. In perfect working condition. Produce a table instantly at the beginning of your act. Or in the middle. Or at the end. A classic.
Price is $99 plus shipping and insurance.
Mel Babcock's original Flying Die with all pieces and instructions. 3" die. Mint. Click photo to enlarge.
Price is $155 plus shipping and insurance.
A beautiful and unused (no pin, nail or tack holes) handkerchief penetration frame. Very well constructed and sturdy. Click photos to enlarge.
Price is $39 plus shipping and insurance. SOLD.
This is the original Supreme Run Rabbit Run from the 1970s. A classic and wonderful kids trick was invented by Harry Leat in England back to the 1940s. This one is brightly colored and easy to work. The kids try to keep up with the rabbit who appears, vanishes, travels from home to home, etc. Brings laughter to kids and smiles from parents. Click photo to enlarge. Complete with two rabbits plus the rabbit head that peeks above the wall as it glides from one side to the other via rear lever. Durably made of sturdy metal. Entirely self-working. Mint condition.
Price is $140 plus shipping and insurance. SOLD.
From Thayer in 1945, this is a routine and patter for the production of different drinks from a single bottle or other container. Click photo to enlarge.
Price is $15 including US shipping.
From his famed performance at El Rancho Vegas in 1956, this is an original check payable to and endorsed by Carl Ballantine for $1,000. NOTE: Portions of the check were blocked for these photos but the original check is fully in tact with a crisp, clean signature. Click photos to enlarge them. This is more than rare; it's unique. One of a kind performer's payment at an original Las Vegas venue.
Price is $125 plus insurance. (International, add mailing.)
This is a 100% glass that is bottomless and has a round glass insert glued to the inside bottom. See photos. Click to enlarge. The glass insert makes it possible to put a silk in the glass (in the insert) and fill the glass with milk. Pour out the milk and the silk is either vanished (through the bottom) or still there completely dry. The glass is fluted so the insert isn't visible even when the glass is empty. Mint. No chips, cracks or repairs. It's a beauty.
SOLD.
You can stop searching! This is the seventy year old trick where a borrowed handkerchief is stuffed into an ink bottle (after real ink is shown to be inside). Later, the original handkerchief is produced from a potato (where else?) clean, ink-free and potato-y fresh!
SOLD.
You know the Sucker Die Box trick, right? Thayer invented the Double Door in 1912 and made hundreds of them. He was so successful that he expanded his product line to include small and larger sizes than the original 3-inch die box. He also made variations on the trick with billiard balls, coins, cigarette packs, alarm clocks and more. Among the very unique and quite rare version is the Break-Away Die Box.
This is a Thayer Break-Away Die Box (shown apart). The two compartments attach via a slide mechanism. There's still the sound of the die moving from side to side. But in this version, the sides are held feet apart, without connection until they are re-joined. Click to enlarge photo.
Very, very rare. Near mint.
Price is $975 plus shipping and insurance.
Beautifully machined by Owen Magic about thirty years ago. The classic close-up trick where you always select the bar that rattles despite the spectator's attempts to fool you. Or you them. (Click photo to enlarge.)
Price is $45 plus shipping.
Frank Klein's wonderful Zig Zag Coke Can from the 1970s. This is the original and it is in mint condition! Use any soda can, full or empty. A Coke Classic if there ever was one. It'll fool magicians and regular people. Click to enlarge photos.
Price is $180 plus shipping and insurance. SOLD.
This is the 1978 folder with photo instructions from Tom O'Lenick. And autographed by Tom O'Lenick.
Price is $6.50 including postage.
