The Card Box One of the most useful accessories in card conjuring is the Card Box, Fig. 49, which is invaluable for causing cards to appear, vanish or change into others. To all appearances it is a plain box of polished wood, consisting of the parts A and B hinged together, either of which will serve as top or bottom of the box. The inside is usually blackened; but there is another part, not noticed by the spectators, and that is a very thin slab, C, of blackened wood, nicely fitting the inside of the box and held in place by one of the fingers as the performer freely shows the open box from both sides, inverting it to prove that it contains nothing. Fig 49 We will suppose for an illustration that in B lays a card, face downwards, being hidden by the slab C. The box thus prepared may be freely shown, (apparently empty) as described above, and then closed by means of lid A. (This, at least is the method usually adopted, although I myself let A form the bottom of the box and adroitly close prepared side B on it as the cover. But doing this, I dispense with the necessity of turning over the box.) In placing the closed box upon the table, or giving it to some person to hold, the box is secretly turned over so that B is now uppermost. The false slab C falls into A, causing the concealed card to be revealed when the box is opened. By using a reverse process, the box is made to serve for the vanishing or changing of cards. Home | Card Tricks | Card Trick Skills | The Pass | The Force | Changes False Shuffling | The Glimpse | Card Palm | Card Sleights Copyright © 2003-2006 HowToDoCardTricks.com. All rights reserved worldwide.   You can quickly get a copy of every trick on this web site in a downloadable PDF book. That's over 40 classic card tricks to amaze and astound your friends, all stored on your computer to refer to at any time! Just click the link below to get your own copy today for just $5.