CLOSE-UP MAGIC.
CLOSE-UP MAGIC BOXES FOR SALE.
All items are complete and in working order. Please do not ask for any items to be transferred from one box to another. Each box sold with contents as listed. Collectors will find some "gems" here, such as vintage locking Card Boxes.
Close-up Magic Box Number THREE: Acrobatic Matchbox, Piatnic Trick Set of Cards, Piatnic Classic Deck (Blue), Piatnic Classic Deck (Red), Special Matchbox for Card in Cigarette, Vanishing Coin in fold of trousers, Vanishing fan of four 10p Coins, Six Crown Coins (For Coins thro' Table), Four Dollar Coins, The Vanishing Nickle, Squirting Cigarette Lighter, Al Koran's Linking of 3 Finger Rings, Mini Slates, Vanishing Lit Cigarette "Pull", Close-up Mat, Noisy Watch Winder, The Captain's Card Trick (Harbin), Svengali Deck, Miracle Wallet, "Drink" Cards, Oliver Mackenzie's Drink Trick (Dealer version), Oliver Mackenzie's Drink Trick (From Peter Nicol, with original cards), Faust's "Find the Lady" Novelty Card, The Egyptian Five Card Trick, Japanese "Find the King", Novelty Book Matches. PRICE: £75.
Close-up Magic Box Number FIVE: Steel Ball thro' Glass (Locking version), Collection of rare special coins, Brass Roterberg Card Box, Thayer Locking Card Box, Watch Box, Decks of Cards, Red, White, and Blue (Davenports), Stack of Pence (Davenports), Eight Colours Box (Davenports), Repair Bill, Loaded Dice, Every Inch a Lady Card Trick, 'Brema' Nut, Klondyke Coin Box, Zig-Zag Cigarette. PRICE: £125.
Close-up Magic Box Number SIX: The Perfect Pen (John Cornelius), Twister (Tenyo), 'Brema' Nut and Nut, Bolt, & Chain (Presto Magic), Ultra Thin Rising Cards (Keith Bennett), Colour Divination Box, Nest of Four Boxwood Coin Boxes (1920's), A 'Dural' Ultimate Rising Wand (Taylor-Made to fit this box), The 'Raven' (Magnetic 'Pull'), Eddie Gibson's "Twist-Off" Nut and Bolt, The G.T.Magic Car for finding selected card, The Golden Wand (Rising Wand, brass, Taylor-Made), The BAT (Kinetic Rings etc.), Spooky Spots (Inzani-Henley. Made in Germany), The Flying Ring in Zippered Key Case (Roy Roth), The Matrix (Red and Blue back sets). PRICE: £125.
Close-up Magic Box Number EIGHT: Hot Rod, Card Prediction Glass, Coin Penetration Box, 1964 Folding Half Dollar and matching half dollar, Turned wooden Rattle Bars, P.& L. Royal Rising Pencil, Topsy-Turvy Match, Carl Rosini's Jumper Buttons, Rare Old German Card Trick, Card of Nosferatu, ViennaMagic Examinable Finger Chopper, Vintage Vest Pocket Bathing Beauty Card Trick, Glass Tumblers Suspension, Harbin's "Dippy Magnet", Wenk's Punchline, Dayton's Stretching Quarter, El Duco's Fireproof, Brass Houdini Token, Two Pairs of Mini-Handcuffs in leather pouch, Thumb Cuffs, Vintage Ralph Peirce Magic Pencil, P.& L. Penetrating Thimble, Supreme Shell Penny & Insert, Bitten 10p (Eddie Gibson), Fred Kaps Fire Wallet (With Card in Wallet), Incredible Shrinking Card Case (Examinable), Playing Card Tattoo, Vintage Linemar Magic Sword Fakir, Vintage Cutting a Fakir in Half, Invisible Thread Reel. PRICE: £150.
Close-up Magic Box Number NINE: Adams' Radar Pencil, Burling Hull Ghost Card Trick, Siberian Gang Chain Escape, 3 Cups Mystery, Cigarette thro' Handkerchief, Harry Potter Playing Cards, Coin Rattle Box, Coin Catcher, 'Paradise' Hindoo Cones, Adams' Chinese Linking Rings (3-1/2" Set), Adams' Chinese Linking Rings (5" Set), P.& L. Handkerchief Casssette, Shrinking Card Case (Peter Kane), Forcing Packs (1-way, 2-way, and 3-way), two packs of blue-backed Bicycle Cards, P. & L. Lit Cigarette Vanisher and Re-producer, Vintage Salt Thimbles (a la Rice Bowls), P.& L. Ghost Cigarette, Early 70's Electric Shock Playing Cards, Kunard's Coins, Wrist Reel (Made by George Hammerton?), Davenports Pencil Mystery, Cigarette Penetration Tube, Cigarette thro' Playing Card, Dell O'Dell Tunnel, Chinese Ring Mystery, Adams' Shooting Coaster, Cigarette Surprise (Howard Brooks), 5 'Ike' Dollars, 'Snappy' Silk Production, Comic 'Raveling' Joke, Revolving Cane Gimmick, Moving Matchbox, Poker Bicycle Card Deck (Red backed). PRICE: £125.
Black Hardtop Briefcase: Bert Allerton's Aspirin Box, Subway Card Trick (Will Goldston), Match Magic Booklet, Bag and Instructions for 'Demon' Production of 4 glasses of wine, Slydini Paper Tear, 3-Card Trick using four cards!, Rice's Double Colour Changing 12" Silk, Wonder Mouse, Blue back Bicycle Rider Poker Deck, Blue back Bicycle Rider Poker 3-Way Forcing Deck, Folding Half Dollar (Profile cut), Joe Kerr Jnr. Joke Letter, Talking Dollar Bill, Talking & 'Flashing' Queen of Hearts, 3 Decks of red back Bicycle Rider Poker cards (Un-opened), Dancing Doll, The N'Gai Dog Race, "Yoma" The Mystery Lady (Cutting in Half...with original vintage packaging). PRICE: £100.
A BOX OF JOKE NOVELTIES, all from 1920's onwards era: Clockwork Joke Cigarette Tin (Cigarette Egyptiennes), Clockwork Vibrating Matchbox (Sakerhets Tandstikor), Clockwork Hopping Matchbox (Sakerhets Tandstikor), Jack-in-the-Box Matchbox (Sakerhets Tandstikor), Disappearing Matches (Sakerhets Tandstikor), Drawer Spring-Out Matchbox (Sakerhets Tandstikor), Sparking Matchbox (Elk), Explosive Lead Pencil, Vibrating Matchbox in original packet, Vintage Adams' Explosive Lipstick Case. PRICE: £75.
All prices exclude postage and packing.
Boxes 1-7 inclusive are Taylor-Made wooden cases, painted black, with nickel-plated clasps, lock, and carrying handle. Numbers 8-12 inclusive are in aluminium cases. Number 13 is a "scrimmed" Taylor-Made wooden box. Joke Novelties are in a black velvet box.
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