Stuff – A collection of Original Magic by Eric Mason

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. [In this digital reproduction we have added back, purely for historical reasons, the chapter “The Creation of a Magical Effect”, which is a socialist rant.] 1st edition 1983, 2nd edition 1989; 170 pages; PDF 177 pages. Table of Contents Contents Preface to Second Edition Introduction by Fred Robinson Introduction by Barrie Richardson Introduction by Gordon Bruce Forword Orringinal Framed Note in Cigarette Kapala Ashram Desiderata Overture Caboodle Eca Tuoba Ecaf Ubique Sed Non A Birthday Card The Wimbledon Aces Acemblage Put and Take Spread Eagled My Card – Your Card – Anybody’s Card Topsyturvy One Million To One Banditry Anything For A Change The One Handed Fiddler Classical Bit The Problem Is Beauideal The Married Lady Billett-Doux Brainwave The Mason Spread Arise Comrades The Pit-A-Patter of a Tiny Feat Fred Trick The Great Sock It And See Uriker Amason Make A Note Of It Watch For A Borrowed Note Impromptu Coins Across Twenty To One Snap Backclip Throw The Coin In A Bottle A Pound With A Bottle A Peep Into A Bottle Come In Jimmy Herbert One Green Bottle Cumuppence Moniker Papier On Reflection N.C.R. Tactoscophy Kineto Magnifique The Cuffs The Silver & Golden Retrievers Pandora Reviews Collarboon Nefertiti Mental Magic Square Card In Cigarette Pack Pop Matchless Mason Colour Improvement to the Monahan Paddle Eric Mason Wallet Violistik The Creation of a Magical Effect