FAUST'S MAGIC IN STORE

All illusions are in wooden boxes, painted black.  All small tricks are in Taylor-Made "scrimmed"travel boxes, painted black.  All prices shown exclude postage or delivery charges.

1.   Cingalee's "Broken & Restored Dinner Plate". Complete with all the original accessories.  Hammer, tray for pieces of plate, paper bags (and how to prepare them), a stage cloth, special circular tray for vanishing small piece of plate found on the stage, 40 white dinner plates, and Faust's switchboard for final restoration of plate in frame. Plus 6ft Dragon plywood cut-out, "scrimmed" and painted, on stand to hold paper bag if working with one assistant. Unique. Offers invited around £1,000.

2.   Amac's Giant Three Card Illusion "Find the Lady", with sole performing rights throughout the world.  Featured in turn by Amac, The Great Lyle, and Faust. Positively the Most Amazing Illusion Ever Conceived. Offers invited around £75,000.

3.   Taylor-Made Thin-Model Dove in Balloon.  £175.

4.   Abbott's Duck Pan.  Plated.  £75.  (Used by Faust to produce three doves.  The doves, plus one from balloon, were then vanished in the Dove Cage Vanish).

5.   Vanishing Bowl of Water on Tray.  Mephisto-Huis large copper bowl and original aluminium circular tray.  Plus large circular brass tray from Port Said, Egypt, for improved appearance.  £150.

6.   Giant Botania, in a large brass bowl (Bowl from Egypt) on a low wooden stool.  Improved method of fixing the flowers for easy repair if necessary, designed by my mechanic Arthur Cradock.  £150.

8.   The Mutilated Parasol.  Bought in Japan. 2-in-1 version, plated.   My promoter's favourite small trick.  £175.

9.   The Smoke Vase.  (A replica of Chung Ling Soo's from Dick Ritson).  Delayed action.  In padded travel box. £250.   (Price reduced to £125 because the lid has a small piece of glass broken out of the rim.  The prop works  perfectly well, and the working of this delayed action is a closely guarded secret.  I can give the buyer the address of two glassblowers who could make another glass lid to fit the vase.)

10.  Vanishing Radio.  Robert Harbin version.  Taylor-Made.  £250.

12.  Upside-Down Production Box.  (Robert Harbin).  Taylor-Made. £250.

16.  Dove Bottle.  Made for me by Nelson Metalcraft.  £45.

17.  Production of two trays of beer glasses from under a cloth, with special antique style table.  Taylor-Made.  £250.

19.  Giant Die, Ribbon, & Frame.  Taylor-Made.  £95.

22.  Automatic Lighting Fire Torch.  Made for me by Arthur Cradock.  £75.

23.  Broken & Restored cotton, smoke from mouth, chrome balls from mouth, followed by a long string of flags.  Balls made for me in POrt Said.  With authentic classical Egyptian routine taught to me by Gali-Gali magician Mohammed Selim.  £150.

24.  Dove from large Egg.  Replica of Cingalee's.  Taylor-Made.  £15.

25.  The Money Machine.  Geared mechanism by Arthur Cradock.  Taylor-Made.  £150.

26.  Smoking the Thumb.  £45.

28.  Large Tear-Apart Dove Vanish, with easy fix panels for paper, and folding table stand.  Taylor-Made.  £250.

29.  Changing Ladle.  Taylor-Made.  £150.

34.  Stanyon's Jumbo Size 3-Card Trick, with Display Stand.  £30.

43.  Blackamoor Figure in Papier Mache. A stage set-piece on its own base.  (Bought from Lucille Lyle).  £150.

44.  Small Brass Gong. 12" diameter.  With padded striker.  £5.

48.  Replica Coronet.  £35.  Worn by Court Lady in Faust's re-creation of Devant's "Guarding the Crown" as staged in Japan.

50.  Sony Reel-to-Reel Professional Tape Deck.  In strong wooden travel box.  £450.

58.  Canary thro' Mirror into Cage inside Locked Box.  Taylor-Made.  Based upon the Howard de Courcy original, with my own methods, not necessarily those used in the original.  £950.

59.  Black Velvet Banner, 5ft. wide and 7ft. drop, on an ornamental pole, with black nylon hanging cords to attach to theatre batten, to work billiard ball manipulations in front.  £45.

60.  Flowering Rose Bush.  Taylor-Made.  Growing 21 real roses. Brass leaves.  Modified wind-up gramophone motor mechanism.  6-months to make.  £2,500.

61.  Flowering Rose Bush.  Taylor-Made. Growing 12 real roses.  Brass leaves. Modified wind-up gramophone mechanism.  6-months to make.  £1,500.

62.  Three Juggling Balls. Black and silver leather. Plus 2 more each red, blue and green. With Juggling video. £20.

66.  Faust's Snake Basket.  Taylor-Made. Rising and falling mechanism designed by Faust's friend "Marco".  Clockwork motor. 15 months to make. £1,250.

68.  Drawer Box. Taylor-Made. Made from Brazilian mahogany, with locking inner drawer and brass fittings.  Large enough for a rabbit.  £250.

69.  Glass Penetration Frame.  Taylor-Made.  Based upon the original Chris Charlton model, but much larger, and made from "Duralumin", with an improved design.  £350.

70.  Flowering Bouquet.  Taylor-Made.  Growing 7 real roses.  Made almost entirely of brass, like the flowering rose bushes and the Citrus Tree.  2-months to make. Hand operated.  £750.

76.  Dove Cage Vanish for Six Doves.  Taylor-Made. On Brazilian mahogany antique style pedestal table.  £750.

77.  Coin Ladder.  Taylor-Made.  Small electric motor, battery operated, delivers a coin every 5 seconds.  Holds 20 coins.  Plus two coin holders, built into the table, each holding 20 coins, for a shower of coins from the hands for finale.  £1,250.

78.  Combined Close-up Carrying Case/Table top.  Taylor-Made.  Brazilian mahogany.  £375.

79.  Vintage Rosini Silk Winder.  £40.

83.  Davenport's Wonder Box.  Plated. With silks. £45.

85.  Penetraspheres (Jack Hughes).  £175.

92.  Abbott's Travelling Garter.  £80.

94.  Owen Oversized Dr.Q Spirit Slates.  £300.

99.  Vintage Egg "Pull".  £15. 

100. Merv Taylor Por-Mor Pitcher.  £20.

103. Tannen's Glass Gone.  £30.

104. Airborne Champagne Bottle.  £25.

107. Abbott's Hole in One. £175.

108. Vampire Diminuendo.  £125.

111. Taylor-Made "Spacious" Production Box on Pedestal. (Jack Hughes).  £175.

117.  Vintage De Muth Salt Shaker.  £15.

118.  Petrie & Lewis Windlass for Rising Cards.  £30.

123.  Double locking Drawer Box.  Taylor-Made.  Brazilian mahogany with brass fittings, and brass nameplate engraved "Taylor-Made Magic".  £150.

125.  Another double locking Drawer Box, to produce the props required for a close-up magic act.  Brazilian mahogany with brass fittings, and brass nameplate engraved "Taylor-Made for FAUST".   £150.

126.  Flying Ring Purse.  Mak Magic Co.  Complete with original instructions, and in a Taylor-Made "scrimmed" wooden travel box. .£40.

128.  Lightweight 4-legged Table, with shelf, for solo act.  Aluminium tubular legs.  Dismantles and packs flat.  Taylor-Made. £125.

134.  Demon  Improved Pillars & Cords.  Two sets available.  £35 each.

136.  Visi-Vanish.  The vanish of two doves, visibly, inside a "Perspex" front box.  Made for Faust by Gil Leaney for Faust's Japanese tours. Rare.  £75.  Doves re-appeared inside next two items.

137.  The Devil's Birdcage.  Visible appearance of a dove in a cage.  Taylor-Made.  As featured in Faust's Show touring Japan.  £100.

138.  The Crystal Casket on Small Stool.  The visible appearance of a dove inside the crystal casket.  Taylor-Made.  £150.

142.  Vintage Jack Hughes original Coins in Glass. Pedestal version. Complete with glasses.  £125.

145.  Arabian Vase & Rope.  Large authentic brass vase from Turkey, rope inside, and vase remains suspended, and can be swung from side to side.  Spectator tries, but cannot do it.  One only.  £35.

146.  Doves from the Air.  Chu's Magic Studio Dove Basket and Taylor-Made Net.  Produce two doves from the air.  £75.

147.  Another Dove Basket, made by Jack Hughes.  £45.

149.  Beer from an Empty Barrel.  Featured in Granville Taylor's "Devil's Bar" act, and on all of Faust's seven tours of Japan.  Copper Barrel made for Granville Taylor in Sheffield, with brass tap.  Taper ball socket for tap made by an engineer friend.  Stainless steel spring for spring-loaded socket made by John Martin.  Taylor-Made stand for barrel.  Perfect for getting sponsors to supply the beer at every performance, and to print the paper sheets for sealing the barrel.  Includes champagne bucket to hook on front of barrel stand, a large batch of papers for sealing ends of barrel, four circular stainless steel trays, and all glasses required (in a wooden travel box, partitioned and padded for each glass). Unique.  £750.

151.  Fire Box. (Taurus Magic). Stainless steel box with open top and bottom is shown empty.  Fire appears from box, then is suddenly extinguished, silks produced, more fire from box, fire extinguished, and dove appears from box.  £65.

153.  The "Bean" Card Shooter Holdout.  Taylor-Made.  £85.   Several available.

154.  The "Miracle" Billiard Ball.  Taylor-Made.  £10.   Red.  48mm.

155.  Multiplying Billiard Balls.  Three red wooden balls, 48mm diameter, with fibreglass shell.  Shell is a perfect fit, so a ball with shell can be tossed in the air without separating.  Taylor-Made.  £40.  Also available in white.

158.  Wooden Box for transporting four doves, with removable framed wire mesh insert, so that the lid can be left open in the dressing room.  Complete with a wooden perch, water and food containers, and canvas bags for food and grit.  Also suitable for transporting a rabbit. Measures 46 x 30 x 24 cms.  £20.

159.  Wooden Box for transporting canaries.  £20.

162.  Tip-Over Rabbit/Dove Vanish Box.  Professional model Taylor-Made.  As used by Murray and Faust. £45.

165.  The Nikola Coin Vase.  See one of the Hoffmann books for the workings of this trick with a special table.  Glass Vase & Lid only.  £50.

166.  Carmo's Beads Mystery. £15.

167.  Box of various Coin Holders.  Made by "Marco" in brass for Faust to use for "The Miser's Dream" with an ordinary champagne bucket.  A pair of coin droppers for 1/2 dollar size coins (coins drop one at a time), a Kellar type Coin Holder for 1/2 dollars, a pair of spring-loaded coin producers with finger clips for 2p size coins, and a pair of coin holders fitted with safety pins for producing two stacks of 2p size coins.  Lot for £40.

168.  Untying Rope, with brass reel.  £20.

169.  Red velvet cushion with gold tassel corners for Coronet (item No.48) previously listed.  £15.

173.  Finger-Flame.  Made by Theatre Effects.  £5.

174.  Candles to Silks, with brass candelabra.  A replica, Taylor-Made, of the trick as performed by Cingalee.  £40.

177.  Large Petrie & Lewis Reel for Rising Cards.  Classic windlass version. With original instructions.  £45.

188.  Rice's original Double Colour Changing Silks.  Mint.  £25.

189.  A  Bartl "Flying Ring" Reel, with backing plate for fixing to waistband of trousers.  Superb quality. Plated.  Next best thing to a Martin reel.  £225.

191.  Very large Firebowl stage set-piece.  Chrome plated.  Measures 11-1/2" diameter on a stand 10-1/2" tall.  Bowl has a slotted tube in its base containing material for soaking in paraffin or whatever to keep the bowl burning for at least 3-4 minutes, or longer if simulated asbestos is used.  £30.

192.  Polished Stainless Steel Hoop, 40" diameter, 3/4" tubing. For levitation or suspension illusions.  £50.

195.  Cane to Bouquet.  £45.

196.  Cane to Parasol.  £35.

206.  Battery operated Flash Wand.  Brass, with chrome plated ends. Ignition by 3-volt glo-plug.  Two wands for sale.  £30 each.

211.  Six 9-Bloom Feather Bouquets, four to resemble white roses and two to resemble red roses, made by Wauldron for Faust.  Each is 14" long including ring at the end. Complete with individual load bags.  Never used.  Ideal for Wunda-Villa production, or similar.  £125 lot.

216.  Abbott's Interchange of Form.  Silk in one hand becomes a white billiard ball, and white ball in other hand becomes a silk.  Comprises a metal Handkerchief Ball, approx. 2" in diameter, and a metal shell with a wire loop insert.  £15.

218.  36" Devil Silk.  Silk King Studios U.S.A.  Excellent condition.  £35.

221.  Merv Taylor Cigarette Loader, with original instructions.  £25.

223.  Three Jumbo Changing Cards.  Taylor-Made. Red back Bicycle Rider. For a Jumbo Rising Cards Routine.  Four of Clubs to Six of Clubs (or vice-versa) whilst held in hand.  Four of Spades to Queen of Hearts, and Eight of Diamonds to Queen of Clubs, whilst card is rising.  £40.  

224.  Tannen's Car Buggy.  Wooden car for finding a chosen card.  With instructions by Granville Taylor about how to repair it if necessary.  This model has been re-threaded with "Kevlar" thread, so should never need attention.  Complete with cards.  £25.

226.  Berland's Multiplying Thimbles.  With full instructions for Berland's routine, plus several Taylor-Made individual thimble holders.  Nine red thimbles, wood, plus one extra large red thimble.  £35.

227.  Pecking Mechanical Bird to find chosen card.  Tin-plate bird. With cards and instructions. £20.

231.  The Psychokinetic Nut & Bolt.  Red briefcase type model.  £75.

237.  A replica of Murray's coat-tails servante, with pockets for holding six shot glasses for the running gag whereby Murray produced a tot of beer from under his coat tails at the end of small tricks involving spectators from the audience he had invited on stage.  Two suitable glasses supplied.  Four more similar glasses required, plus rubber covers. £15.

258.  The Aldini Salt Shaker.  £30.

266.  Vintage "BANG" Book.  A surprise novelty.  Rare.  £8. 

267.  Vintage Bamboo Rod & Beads.  Superb quality with brass end pieces.  £50. 

270.  Wrist Reel from Harry Stanley's Unique Magic Studio for Flying Silk or for Card Rising from deck to hand above.  With watch face added to reel.  £15.

272.  "Snappy" Barehand Silk Production.  Silk appears at fingertips.  £12.

275.  "Snappy" Torn & Restored Newspaper.  £5.

276.  The latest from Taylor-Made Magic.  A 5-Bloom Flowering Rosebush, growing 5 real roses.  Brass leaves.  Modified wind-up gramophone mechanism.  £950.

280.  "Dovenus".  Made by the inventor, the late Professor Guy Higgins, for Faust.  £75.

283.  Six one metre square silks of heavy momme Taylor-Made by Granville Taylor for Faust for The Sympathetic Silks Routine.  Made from best quality pure Chinese Silk.  With instruction booklet. Two each of purple, yellow, and blue.  In canvas bag.  £50.

287.  The Six Card Repeat. (Barry Gordon). Two sets available.  Both brand new.  £4 each set.

296.  Vintage "Sympathetic Cubes".  £15.

300.  Faust's 'Gag' Letter.  Marked "For Adults Only".  When the letter is removed from the envelope, a whirring sound is heard and the letter vibrates.  Can easily be reset.  £5.

302.  Gimmick for Thayer's "KOBRA".  The charmed feat of India.  With instructions by L.Davenport & Co.  £10.

305.  The Guy Higgins "Liberty" Pull for vanishing a silk handkerchief visibly...no stuffing the silk into the closed fist!  £55

308.  Abbott's Dollar Bill between Metal Plates, with original instructions.  £35.

310.  Set of 2" lightweight plastic Multiplying Billiard Balls:  3 white plus shell, and one each of red, purple, orange, yellow, green, and blue.  Also one wooden handkerchief ball.  All in a "scrimmed" wooden box.  £65

313.  Duck/Doves Tub with Tray and Silk Production.  £45.

314.  Adams' Chinese Linking Rings.  Set of eight 5" diameter rings, with original cardboard box, with original instructions.  £10.

315.  Coin Dropper, with coins.  Made for Faust by his watchmaker/mechanic, Arthur Cradock.  Coins drop singly into the hand each time the pressure pad is depressed.  Worn under the jacket for "The Miser's Dream".  £10. 

316.  Paper to Money.  Blank pieces of paper change to real money. (Korean or Chinese notes in this case).  Complete with a black snake-skin wallet, instructions, and instructions for making another set in your own currency.  £15.

320.  A rare wooden tray for vanishing a silk handkerchief from a small tot glass on top of the tray.  A very fast instant vanish of the silk.  Pulley mechanism inside the tray.  Maker unknown.  £25.

324.  Repeat Changing Cards in Wine Glass.  Complete with miniature cards and a spare special wine glass.  With instructions and all in a Taylor-Made scrimmed wooden box.  £45.

325.  Fibreglass Head with Blonde Wig for "Disembodied Girl" illusion, or similar.  The head has a bracket at the rear for fixing to the vertical panel at back of head box of illusion.  £15

327.  5 Billiard Ball Holders and 2 Thimble Holders.  £10.

328.  Faust's Video Collection recorded from TV over a 40-year period.  Lot for £50.  For full details of contents of videos please visit www.taylormademagic.co.uk.

329.  Three Fantasio Dove Harnesses, and one extra.  £10.

331.  Two Imitation Goldfish.  Weighted.  (Abbott's ?).  Ideal for use in Aquarium Production if you do not want to use live goldfish.  £6.

332.  "Numero" by Al Koran.  Two prediction routines.  Baffling to magicians and entertaining for laymen.  Uses three number counters, although only two are seen by the audience.  With full instructions by Harry Stanley (Unique Magic Studio) and three counters.  £10.

333.  Special Drinks Tray as used by Granville Taylor & Valerie in their Devil's Bar Act using Devant's original Magic Kettle. With plan showing layout of glasses and contents of each glass, and contents of kettle. I sold Devant's kettle some years ago.  Routine supplied is for using a pair of identical old--fashioned tin kettles that can still be bought quite cheaply.  Tray measures 20.5" by 14.5".  £20.

334.  Wood travel box of glasses as used for The Magic Kettle by Granville Taylor and later as Faust in his shows around the world.  21 glasses in individual padded compartments.  £15.

336.  The Dancing Cane.  Packs in two parts in a "scrimmed" cardboard travel tube.  £25.

337.  'Props' Trolley.  Breaks down flat for travelling.  Trolley measures 25" x 20" excluding handle at one end.  31.5" high.  £25.

338.  Chris Van Bern's 'One Jug One Glass' Wine & Water Routine with special celluloid fakes. Also Cingalee's Wine and Water Routine with one jug, two glasses and same fakes.  Use your own jug and glass(es).  £15.

339.  "Where do the ducks come from?"  Made for me by Gil Leaney.  Can be used to produce, ducks, doves or rabbits.  £100.

340.  50mm Coloured Balls & Shell.  Wooden balls, 50mm diameter.  One white with white shell, and one each of red, yellow, and blue.  Shell is a perfect fit, so that at the beginning of the routine the white ball with white shell can be tossed in the air without separating.  £40.  All in a Taylor-Made "scrimmed" wooden travel box with individual compartments.

341.  Cigarette Holder Vanish.  A long gold-looking cigarette holder is wrapped in a tabloid sheet of newspaper.  Paper is crushed into a ball and thrown on the floor or into an opera hat.  £8.

342.  Cane to Table.  With tapered socket fitting for your own opera hat/top hat, for Hat & Cane to Table.  Reverse the cane and supports drop out from inside the cane and spring open.  Place your hat on top to form a receptacle for cards, silks etc.  The perfect opening for your act.  £75.

343.  Brass Bowl 10.5" diameter and 8" high with wire gauze inside the bottom of the bowl, covering a clip to hold a lit cigarette, to produce smoke as unlit cigarettes are magically produced and thrown into the bowl. Plus a Cigarette Tank for 3 lit cigarettes, a dummy cigar, and a corncob pipe.  £30.

344.  Empty "scrimmed" wood travel boxes.  Small and medium sized boxes available.  £5 each.  Also empty wood travel boxes suitcase size with hasps and staples and padlocks.  £10 each. All Taylor-Made.

345.  Petrie Lewis Reel and a 22" Silk King Studios patterned silk in excellent condition for "The Flying Silk" or for "The Untying Handkerchief".  In a "scrimmed" wood travel box.  £25.

346.  Mechanical Ball.  1-3/4" diameter for "Silk to Billiard Ball".  Red  ivorine ball complete with winding key, instructions, and in a "scrimmed" wood, felt-lined, travel box.  £75.

347.  "Magic Feats" book by Majikans (Leo Burns) with coins with exaggerated milled edges by Granville Taylor for "Impromptu Coins" routine as described in the book.  £12.

348.  Battery operated Flash Magic Wand by LeMaitre.  Brass, with non-scratch black glitter finish with silver glitter ends.  £35.

349.  The David Devant Vest Servante.  £55.

For price lists of close-up magic,memorabilia, magic books, Faust DVD's, Faust posters, etc., for sale, please visit the appropriate pages on this site that you are now on.

Photographs of many of the tricks and illusions listed above can be seen on:  www.taylormademagic.co.uk.