Collectables

Given the Magic Collectors' Association convention in Chicago right now, I've been thinking about what makes a magic something collectable. Is it antiquity? Rarity? Comprehensiveness? Awesomeness?

Looking through my own personal library, I wonder if anything there would be coveted by collectors, or if there's something we have in stock in the FUN Inc. warehouse that could become a collectable in a few years time. Here's a few things you might want to snag - while you still can.

Revolutionary Card Technique: First it was in print, then out of print. It's in print now, but who knows for how long? This tome is the ultimate bible for any aspiring cardician. Bill Malone lists it as a must-have for his proverbial "desert island".

Harbin X2: It is widely agreed that Robert Harbin was one of magic's most inventive geniuses. He is the inventor of the Zig Zag and other illusions that rank among the most performed stage effects of the twentieth century. However, this was merely the tip of Harbin's creative iceberg. In fact, he invented so many illusions, escapes and tricks of all types, they could not be fit into one book. Hence, this handsome two-volume set, including cloth slipcase.

Dotto & Blotto: Like the Topsy Turvy Bottle trick, but better! The magician shows two pictures of magicians and places them in an envelope. One envelope is handed to a spectator and the other is handled by the magician. The magician then mixes up the position of his magician and asks the spectator to follow his lead. No matter how often the envelopes are turned upside down and right side up and how closely the spectator follows the magician's moves, the magician's magician is facing a different direction that the spectator's.

Once these are gone, they're gone for good! Invented by Roy Baker, and first marketed by Edwin's Magic Arts of the United Kingdom.

Edwin's Magical Arts: Edwin the Magician is at it again with another fine book of magic tricks that you can build and create yourself, plus his own personal history in pictures and stories. As always, the book is filled with illustrations and instructions teaching you how to make many wonderful magic props. Out of print. We've got the largest supply of these on the planet! When they're gone - they're gone.