Description

Stuff is a beautifully designed and produced book (now available as ebook) of top quality magic and contains detailed descriptions of several marketed props and routines. These include the Beta Wallet, the Breese-Mason Wallet, Cummupence, the Silver Retriever, the Golden Retriever and Pandora. Eric Mason was not only a brilliant inventor and magician; he was a creative and talented illustrator. You will find several examples of Mason’s skill as illustrator in this ebook.

Eric Mason was a highly talented and exceptionally creative magician and illustrator. He was the Art Editor of Pabular magazine and illustrated countless books. He released many commercial magic effects including the Beta Wallet, the Breese-Mason Wallet, Cummupence, the Silver Retriever and the Golden Retriever and many of these effects are described in this ebook.

Eric used to share the spotlight with Fred Robinson at the Marlborough Arms public house near the Magic Circle on Monday evenings. There the alternative Magic Circle met and Eric was always ready to perform a seemingly impromptu miracle; seemingly impromptu because his pockets were always so jammed full of props that David Britland once described Eric as, ‘Rattling with magic as he walked’.

He was a great sleight of hand performer and was so adept with coin sleights that he could back-clip an old English penny and hold a half dollar coin in the palm of the same hand. He used to throw the half dollar up in the air and as it landed back on his palm he would back-clip it and simultaneously release and display the penny concealed between the back of his fingers. As far a spectator could see, Eric held a half dollar in his open hand tossed it up in the air and by the time it landed back in his hand it had changed into a penny.

Early in his career, Eric and his wife Eileen lived in a caravan in Cornwall for several years where Eric spent his time designing, painting and illustrating. Unusually, many of his paintings were published in miniature form on matchbox covers.

1st edition 1989; 170 pages.

Table of Contents

ContentsPreface to Second EditionIntroduction by Fred RobinsonIntroduction by Barrie RichardsonIntroduction by Gordon BruceForwordOrringinalFramedNote in CigaretteKapalaAshramDesiderataOvertureCaboodleEca Tuoba EcafUbique Sed NonA Birthday CardThe Wimbledon AcesAcemblagePut and TakeSpread EagledMy Card – Your Card – Anybody’s CardTopsyturvyOne Million To OneBanditryAnything For A ChangeThe One Handed FiddlerClassical BitThe Problem IsBeauidealThe Married LadyBillett-DouxBrainwaveThe Mason SpreadArise ComradesThe Pit-A-Patter of a Tiny FeatFred Trick The GreatSock It And SeeUrikerAmasonMake A Note Of ItWatchFor A Borrowed NoteImpromptu Coins AcrossTwenty To OneSnap Backclip ThrowThe Coin In A BottleA Pound With A BottleA Peep Into A BottleCome In Jimmy HerbertOne Green BottleCumuppenceMonikerPapierOn ReflectionN.C.R.TactoscophyKinetoMagnifiqueThe CuffsThe Silver & Golden RetrieversPandoraReviewsCollarboonNefertitiMental Magic SquareCard In Cigarette PackPopMatchlessMason Colour Improvement to the Monahan PaddleEric Mason WalletViolistik
word count: 50564 which is equivalent to 202 standard pages of text