Stuff

A Collection of Original Magic

No publication date given. Introductions in the book are dated 1983, first advertisements for the book found early 1986.
1985 ca.
Written by Eric Mason
Work of Eric Mason
161 pages (Hardcover), published by Westbrook Publishing
Illustrated with drawings by Eric Mason
Language: English
122 entries
This publication has been reviewed by
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Fred Robinson Introduction
Barrie Richardson Introduction
Gordon Bruce Introduction
Eric Mason Forword
1
Eric Mason The Impeccable Double - Triple - Quadruple!? handwashing sequence that hides a card in right Tenkai/Rear palm, that card (or double, triple..) can be dropped onto table or other hand while holding the deck or something else
 		2
Eric Mason Orringinal stack of fifty-two matchboxes held between the performer's hands vanishes when the performer turns around, also with card cases
Inspired by
  • "Orrin's Matchboxes" (J. F. Orrin, marketed)
 8
Eric Mason Framed card appears in picture frame
 		11
Eric Mason Card on Window signed card through window, with assistant
 		12
Eric Mason The Card on Ceiling
13
Eric Mason Note in Cigarette "A Simple Method"
borrowed bill changes to giant gag bill, original is then found in cigarette, with torn corner proof
 		14
Eric Mason Kapala card vanishes from deck and appears folded inside a folded bill that's sitting on the table since the beginning, inspired by Fred Kaps
 		16
Mercury Fold under the deck in fourths
 		16
Eric Mason Ashram top card of tabled deck changes, replacement to bottom
Related to 17
Eric Mason Desiderata chapter of handlings for various sleights, intro
 		19
Eric Mason The Pass
19
Eric Mason The Gravity Pass
20
Eric Mason The Gravity Riffle Undercover Pass Riffle Cover Pass
 		22
Eric Mason A Gravity Middle Double Lift top and center card extracted toward the left as in cover pass action
 		22
Eric Mason Gravity Dribble Dribble Cover Pass
 		22
Eric Mason Slow Motion Display Cover Pass, as ambitious card phase
Related to 22
Eric Mason The Double Lift right-hand end grip to turn card over book-wise, with spring unload from that grip
 		23
Eric Mason The Bottom Lift right-hand end grip to turn top and bottom cards over book-wise
 		25
Eric Mason The Returned Bottom double turned over and face card dragged to bottom, as transposition of top and bottom cards of the deck
 		25
Eric Mason The Peek post-peek book break glimpse from right thumb break
 		26
Eric Mason A One Handed Pass
27
Eric Mason Kelly? Ovette? with third finger
 		27
Eric Mason Riffle Force (One Hand) slip, top half thrown into other hand
 		27
Eric Mason The Recurring Card Theme
  • And again...
 		29
Eric Mason Snap Turnover Forton Pop-Out type action, card does not start reversed
  • With the Right Hand Only
 		31
Eric Mason Overture - An Open Change of a Card one of two cards is switched, related to Bilis Switch, also for packets or exchanging two halved while turning a single card over
Inspired byAlso published here 34
Eric Mason Sublimason requested Ace changes into selection
Also published here 35
Eric Mason For Johan
Also published here 36
Eric Mason Cul Bōn'o?
Also published here 36
Eric Mason Abundance Royal thirteen cards chosen, they are all the cards of one suit
 		37
Eric Mason Caboodle "A Universal Count"
five-as-four count, showing them all as double backers
Also published here 38
Eric Mason Eca Tuoba Ecaf borrowed deck, transforms into a rainbow deck after Chicago Opener opening
Inspired byAlso published here 39
Eric Mason Deck Holder made from cardboard
Also published here 39
Eric Mason The Eric Mason Turnover Change right hand holds two cards and hidden underneath half a deck, a packet in the left hand is turned over and exchanged for the hidden half, also for single cards
Also published here 41
Eric Mason Short Routine with the Eric Mason Turnover Change using change as switch, force, ...
Also published here 42
Eric Mason Ubique Sed Non double blank card changes into three selections
 		43
Eric Mason A Birthday Card spectator shuffles deck and deals cards one by one, stops anytime, the stopped-at card is the one written in a birthday calendar on the spectator's birthday
 		45
Mike O'Brien Snap Double double in left-hand dealing position is turned over into dealing position with a snap
 		48
Eric Mason Acemblage Aces lost, they travel into cigarette pack, then repeat with Aces under glass, third time they travel into the cigarette pack again cleanly (lapping and duplicates)
 		51
Eric Mason Cut Multiple Shift single cut from hands to table
Related to 51
Eric Mason Overhand Shuffle Clip Steal top card(s) palmed in right-hand clip and an overhand shuffle is done
 		52
Eric Mason Put and Take thumb palm loading action for card under beer coaster, or as a force loading the card onto the face of a packet or as a spread is squared, card vanish application
Also published here 53
Eric Mason Spread Eagled "(UP and down the Old Kent Road in and out The Eagle)"
card travels under mat, Master Move load under mat
 		56
Eric Mason Tabled Change on Deck face card on tabled deck changes, one-handed
 		56
Eric Mason The Wimbledon Aces "(another Acembly)"
named Ace travels from Ace packet to reversed in deck (Biddle type), the other Aces travel to join the Ace on top of the tabled deck one by one
Related to 57
Eric Mason My Card - Your Card - Anybody's Card selection lost, spectator deals cards onto performer's hand, performer shouts "stop" and there is a card with message "My Card", spectator stops and there is one with "Your Card" which then changes into selection, "Be Honest" phase, then a transposition of sandwiched card for tabled card which changes into card with message "Anybody's Card"
Related toVariations 57
Eric Mason Note "A" (Bottom Deal) stud deal from packet, for stop trick
 		59
Eric Mason Topsyturvy Note "B": "A one handed change of a card"
face card of deck changes one-handed, kind of perpendicular Clip Shift action
Related toVariations 59
Eric Mason Topsyturvy Fast! one-handed flash change on the face of the deck
Inspired by 61
Eric Mason The Rear Palm using Mason's Topsyturvy to steal a card into rear palm
Inspired by 61
Eric Mason Rear Palm Snap Change color change from rear palm
Related to 61
Eric Mason One Hand Bottom Rear Palm! using Mason's Topsyturvy to steal a card into rear palm
Inspired by 61
Eric Mason Dribble Control one-handed dribbling on the table, spectator stops and remembers face card, it is palmed out with previous one-handed rear palm as half is replaced
 		62
Eric Mason Riffle Control spectator stops and remembers face card of upper half, it is palmed out with previous one-handed rear palm as half is replaced
 		63
Eric Mason Rear Palm Tips holding pen or cigarette
 		63
Eric Mason One-Handed Rear Palm Switch mystery card application
 		64
Eric Mason One Million to One card bounces from table
Inspired by 65
Eric Mason Kelly Glide Riffle Force bottom card forced, also as stabbing force on page 67
 		65
Eric Mason Banditry face card (selection) of rubber-banded deck changes, using Topsyturvy move, the rubber band vanishes and is found around selection in center of deck
Inspired by 68
Eric Mason Anything for a Change slip force to add a card to the back of a selection, also one-handed on page 74
Also published here 72
Eric Mason Card Through Table
Also published here 72
Eric Mason The One Handed Fiddler one-handed routine, card vanishes and appears in the right hand which has been held behind the back from the start
 		74
Eric Mason One-Handed Vanish card rubbed onto table with deck in same hand
 		74
Eric Mason Classical Bit two cards on the table transpose
 		74
Eric Mason, Dominique Duvivier The Problem Is four cards change places, look all alike, change color three times, losing their backs and are finally for different cards
Also published here 75
Dominique Duvivier, Brother John Hamman Hamman Count Duvivier handling
Also published here 75
Eric Mason Beauideal cards turn over and change back color
Also published here 79
Alex Elmsley, Eric Mason Elmsley Count variation
Also published here 80
Eric Mason The Married Lady
Inspired by 81
Eric Mason Billett-Doux cards with different colors, prediction is in an envelope
Also published here 83
Eric Mason Envelope Load loading a card into an envelope, under card spread
Also published here 83
Eric Mason Brainwave (Billet Doux'd and Caboodled) brainwave, triumph and deck transposes with an other deck as a kicker
Also published here 85
Eric Mason The Mason Spread spreading a packet in a fan, one is double
 		87
Eric Mason Arise Comrades
  • Note (credit information)
Inspired byAlso published here 89
Eric Mason The Pit-A-Patter of a Tiny Feat winding the pack gag for rising card
Also published here 89
Eric Mason Fred Trick The Great named card is in envelope, with different back
Related toAlso published here 92
Eric Mason Sock It and See vanished card at end of rub-a-dub routine appears in sock, optional repeat
Related to 93
Eric Mason Uriker match slowly breaks in half
Also published here 94
Eric Mason Amason coin transformation, while tossed in the air
  • 1st Sequence
  • 2nd Sequence
Also published here 95
Eric Mason Make a Note of It bill is folded, tossed into the air, where it changes into a giant bill
Also published here 96
Eric Mason Watch! coin changes into spectator's watch when thrown into air
 		97
Eric Mason For a Borrowed Note... Noteworthy? torn and restored bill with humorous serial number memory presentation
 		97
Eric Mason Impromptu Coins Across four coins, with back clip
 		99
Eric Mason Twenty to One transformation routine of pocket change
Inspired by 100
Eric Mason Snap Backclip Throw coin vanishes and reappears in hand, featuring a transfer in which the coin is propelled into other hand during finger snap
Related to 101
Eric Mason False Backclip Take
101
Eric Mason The Coin in a Bottle intro
 		103
Eric Mason A Pound with a Bottle coin in bottle, forming a funnel with a bill
Also published here 103
Eric Mason A Peep into a Bottle whistling into bottle, bottle whistles by itself afterwards
  • Come In Jimmy Herbert
Related to 105
Eric Mason One Green Bottle... on sticking a bottle to the wall
 		106
Eric Mason, Stephen Wyllie Cumuppence ending with a coin really in bottle (marketed prop)
 		108
Thumb Flick Vanish propelling coin under mat
 		109
Eric Mason Moniker handle of a pint beer mug is threaded on a ribbon and under a handkerchief removed magically from it, vanish at the end, additional comments at the end
Also published here 111
Eric Mason Papier paper that dissolves in liquid
  • For Mindreaders (dissolving center tear paper)
  • For Gagsters
  • For Cardicians (paper dissolves and the foam that is left behind is the index of a forced or named card)
 		115
Eric Mason On Reflection impression with Blu-Tack and a mirror
Also published here 116
Eric Mason N.C.R. prediction of someone's wishes written on an Invoice, envelope & wallet
Also published here 117
Eric Mason Tactoscophy plate lifter prop used as open transmitter to help with contact reading
 		119
Eric Mason Kineto finger ring travels on second spectator's keys, magnet
Also published here 121
Eric Mason Magnifique finger ring travels into key case, magnets, updated handling
Inspired byAlso published here
  • marketed 1978 (Repro Magic)
 123
Eric Mason The Cuffs paper cover design to perform cups & balls with glasses
 		126
Eric Mason The Silver & Golden Retrievers
  • The Silver Retriever (marked cigarette vanishes (pull) and is found in tube)
  • The Golden Retriever (cigarette found in pen)
Also published here
  • marketed 1982
 127
Eric Mason Pandora signed card appears at the end of spring snake à la Jack in the Box, card is larger than box
Also published here
  • marketed 1980
 134
Walt Lees (reviewer) Pandora by Eric MasonAlso published here 135
Walt Lees (reviewer) A Peep in a Bottle by Eric MasonAlso published here 135
Walt Lees (reviewer) Magnifique by Eric MasonAlso published here 135
Eric Mason Collarboon collar stud button travels from one button hole to another as performer turns around with his arms up
 		138
Eric Mason Nefertiti switch of medaillon
Inspired by 140
Eric Mason Mental Magic Square
141
Eric Mason Card in Cigarette Pack slit in cigarette case to remove card from within
 		141
Eric Mason Pop pop sound with thumb tip
Also published here 143
Eric Mason Matchless - The Ultimate Penetration matchbox penetrates two metal plates in tube with window cut-outs
Inspired by
  • marketed penetration effect by Franz Biemans
 146
Eric Mason Mason Colour Improvement to the Monahan Paddle dots on paddle change color, mechanical paddle with movable insert
 		147
Eric Mason The Signed and "Thought Of" Card in Wallet with a Borrowed Pack no details on the wallet given, presentation by Eugene Burger
Inspired byAlso published here
  • marketed as The Eric Mason Wallet
 149
Eric Mason - Born 1921
150
Eric Mason Violistik wand is manually transformed into a violin-type string instrument
 		151
Eric Mason The Creation of a Magical Effect AI summary: "The essay links the history of magic and religion to social manipulation, critiques capitalism as outdated and harmful, and presents socialism as the rational, humane solution - framed poetically as the ultimate 'magical effect'."
 		154
Eric Mason The Socialist Party of Great Britain politics
 		160
Eric Mason Marketing Effects
161
Data entered by Denis Behr, September 2025.