Obviously this doesn’t need to be done using a miniature (half size) deck of cards. Hand the padlock key to the guy with the box and allow him to open it, removing card, and matching it with the other half. Using magician’s skills vanish your section. Using Magician’s Choice force the actual signed half on the spectator. (Incidentally, if he chooses he can go over the thing with a magnifying glass and he’ll find nothing wrong.) Just make sure he knows he’s holding a locked wooden box. Don’t instruct him to examine it too much because so far no trick has been done. Hand box to a spectator allowing him to do with as he wishes. Remove box from lap/pocket loading torn card as you do. Everything looks copasetic however, because of the crimp in the “x” piece you know which is which. Openly display the two torn halves in right hand and toss them to left hand, actually retaining one section hidden in right hand. Secretly obtain the “x” half card in left hand. In other words, each folded half card will contain part of the signature. Take card and fold it in half long ways, then tear it in half from side to side. In other words you want the name to run across the center of the card so the signature will appear on each half when the card is later torn. Have a card selected and allow spectator to sign it clear across the card. Place this “x” half any place where you can secretly retrieve it in your left hand. Fold this torn piece in half and crimp the corner allowing you to immediately identify it later. Throw away one half and retain the other. Also tear any miniature “x” card in half. If standing have the box in your right jacket pocket. The business: If seated have a Lippincott Coin Box in your lap, locked and set to receive the item. These cards are about half the size of a normal deck and commonly used in magic for a shrinking card routine.) (The cards used are either the Miniature Bicycle Cards or the brand called Playtime Cards. One half is made to vanish and reappear in the locked box. I have been told that the late Rick Johnsson had a similar thing using a bill tube.Įffect: A miniature card is signed and torn in half. There is nothing really new or different here as it is just my handling of a signed card to the Lippincott Coin Box. What follows is an unpublished routine from my notebook dated 1974.
version of the same book has three routines on pages 349, 429, and 430. The original Bobo coin book makes no mention of the prop, yet the revised Magic Inc. Later I published an improved version in The Complete Mike Rogers, page 148. It’s one of those things that comes and goes in cycles, so if you are interested I’d suggest you act without much delay.īack in the 60s I published a handling for the Lippincott Coin Box in my MUM column. It is a dealer item and can be obtained from Stevens Magic Emporium. It is small enough to fit comfortably in a jacket pocket and it can be loaded instantly without fumbling. Yet being made in wood, if it has been well constructed, it lends itself to exotic old world patter lines. The fact is, it is simply another device allowing for a marked object to be discovered in an impossible location. Yet through it all it is gaffed in such a way that a marked coin, bill, or ring can be found inside the locked box.
The construction is such that when locked it will withstand intense examination and handling.
It is a nifty looking little prop, and when in the locked condition there is no way an item can be placed in, or removed from, the box. For those unfamiliar, it is a small wooden chest about half the size of a pack of cigarettes, and locked with a small padlock.
#MIKE CIOPPA MAGICIAN MAGICMENU TV#
Ace was among the pioneers of magic on TV and he used the box frequently in different ways. About forty years ago the late Ace Gorham introduced me to the Lippincott Coin Box. Will magic stand for another signed card to impossible location? If so, read on.
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