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blindbo
Special user
Bucks County, PA
786 Posts
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Posted: Jan 2, 2005 8:13pm
This is an old gimmicked trick in a playing card box titled "No. 1571 Demon Playing Cards Imported". The box has the image of a devil inside a spade pip. Upon closer observation, there is a peek window flap at the lower right of the box.
The cards inside are USPCC Steamboat 999. The cards are glued back to back on their upper and lower halves to adjacent cards and folded in half. As you close one card on its fold, another appears. The whole lot is glued to an unfolded card.
Does anyone know this trick and any history?
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MField2000
Special user
Hastings, East Sussex, England
579 Posts
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Posted: Jan 3, 2005 6:51am
The Demon name and logo are associated with London's Davenports magic shop, although I am unfamiliar with the specific trick.
Matt Field
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Kevin Connolly
Inner circle
New Jersey
1260 Posts
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Posted: Jun 14, 2005 10:12pm
I just ran across on of these decks just now. They are still sealed. On the paper wrapper tht goes around the box, someone wrote A-H. The first card in the sealed deck is a Ace of Hearts. Any new info on this deck? It looks circa 1910.
Thanks,
Kevin
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Curtis Kam
V.I.P.
same as you, plus 3 and enough to make
3419 Posts
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Posted: Jun 14, 2005 11:51pm
Sounds like a repeat color change? The pip eating spider, perhaps? See Billy McComb's "25 Years Wiser".
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