What’s in the Box?

Yesterday I mentioned that I paid $15 for a box of magic stuff. All I had to go off of was the picture below:

box of magic tricks

Well, when I went to pick it up, it was actually 4 boxes!

used magic tricks

This led to a challenge as I’m travelling right now, so my car has my show in it and I won’t be home for a few days. Also quite often old magic has a musty smell, and I don’t want to have that smell in my car all week and I just don’t have space for it.

I stopped at a grocery story and used their parking lot to sort through the boxes. Like most boxes of used magic, most of the stuff is junk.

used magic tricks

Here’s an overall look at some of the boxes:

The VHS tapes have great material on them, I dont’ have a VHS player and there’s really no market for them. I did find a lo

used magic tricks

The stuff that I didn’t want filtered down the magic food chain. These were left at a performer’s house who lives near where I got the boxes.

Here’s the pile of stuff that I kept:

used magic tricks

There’s a MAK french arm chopper, MAK Chen Lee Water Suspension, snake basket, multiplying bottles (india), sword thru neck (india), and a lot of other misc stuff.

One of the surprises were two Ormand McGill books and they both were signed!

These boxes of magic were a solid buy for $15 and since I was in the area and didn’t have to travel to get them.

-Louie

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