Three cards.
One of them is lying.
Turn one over. Behind each is a class of apparatus we have been making since Edwardian parlours were still a going concern.
Click a card to turn it
The deck you are handling is stock No. 1108 — also for sale.
Four things we make well,
and nothing else.
We started with cards.
We never quite stopped.
Everything else in this catalogue exists because a card trick needed it first. The cane was built to produce from a silk that had just held a chosen ace. The ladder came later, and for worse reasons.
Our stock is cut from linen-finished board, air-cushion finished, and broken in by hand before it ships. It fans when it is cold. It will still fan in a year.
Fig. 1The No. 1108 spread, seven cards shown. The ace is face up because one always is.
Currently in the catalogue
The House Deck
Linen-finished stock in oxblood. Marked on the back, if you ask for it in the note field.
$24Any hands
No. 214
Six-Foot Cane
Folds to a packet the size of a postcard. Opens faster than the eye tracks it.
$58Some practice
No. 087
Pocket Ladder
Four feet of it, brass hinged, out of something that lived in a breast pocket.
$46Some practice
No. 442
Trinket Casket
Rosewood and brass. What goes in does not come out, which is the entire point.
$39Any hands
Every effect ships with its method.
We have never understood shops that sell you the apparatus and keep the secret. A trick you cannot perform is an ornament.
The apparatus
Made to the plate you ordered, tested once by the person who made it, and marked with their initials on the underside.
The handling
Printed, folded, and written in plain language. Where the move is hard we say so, rather than calling it self-working.
The practice
None of it works the first time. The sheet tells you roughly how many attempts to expect before it does.
“If the audience can work it out, we have not finished making it.”
The workshop rule, 1908
The catalogue runs
ninety-one effects deep.
Most of it will not suit you. A few pieces will spoil you for everything else you own.