The New Brass Card Box
Conjurers who desire something especially neat, novel and clever in the way of a Card Box will do well to purchase the New Brass Box, illustrated in Fig. 51. This box is of metal throughout and is just large enough to contain a card. It is scarcely an inch in height, thus making it appear as if there was no chance for trickery in the construction. Yet when a card is placed into it and the box closed and given to a spectator to hold, upon opening it the spectator will find that the card has either vanished or changed into an entirely different one, according to the arrangements of the performer.
Fig 51
The secret of the trick lies in the fact that there are really two boxes, B and C, neatly nesting and connected by the same hinges to the lid A, which is of such shape as to fit very snugly into part B. Previous to performing the trick, B, which is nearly of the same depth as C, is placed in the latter, and the box may, in this state, be freely shown. After the card has been placed in B, the box is closed, pressing A into B, in which it becomes firmly lodged. The box is then handed to a spectator, who, upon opening it, takes A and B to be one, thereby disclosing C. C may either be empty or contain a card, into which the card placed in B is supposed to have been transformed.
This trick is from the book “Card Tricks and How To Do Them”, published by A. Roterberg.
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