Shell

26 entries in Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Shell
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Unknown Hollow Deck Shell to produce coins, see also page 194 for other model
 		1889 Tricks with Cards 193
Unknown Hollow Deck Shell for handkerchief
 		1889 Tricks with Cards 195
Unknown A Pack of Cards Transformed into a Handkerchief, and vice versa handkerchief and cards in leather case change places
 		1890 More Magic 231
Unknown Hollow Deck Shell
1890 More Magic 232
Unknown Changement mehrerer Münzen mit einem Kartenspiel No. 5, deck changes place with three coins, both covered with paper boxes, two deck shells
 		1895 Der Kartenkünstler 92
Unknown Ein Tuch verwandelt sich in ein Kartenspiel silk to deck of cards
 		1896 Der moderne Kartenkünstler 159
Unknown Das sich in Blumen verwandelnde Kartenspiel deck to spring flower bouquet
 		1896 Der moderne Kartenkünstler 172
Unknown Karten-Etui deck placed in a case vanishes or transforms into silk, etc.
 		1896 Der moderne Kartenkünstler 201
Unknown Einfacher Kartensteiger deck shell
 		1896 Der moderne Kartenkünstler 207
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli XIV. Telepathie
  • 1. Die Geisterschrift (slates, multiple versions, total of chosen number appears)
  • 2. Die Fernschrift (message appears on paper sealed in envelope, remote writing)
  • 3. Die Rosenverwandlung (rose changes from red to white, red writing appears on paper)
  • 4. Das spiritistische Kartenspiel (deck appears under box and vanishes again, hollow card deck imitation)
 		1902 Moderne Magie 146
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli XVI. Trifolium
  • 1. Das verwandelte Kartenspiel (deck changes to silk, shell placed in shell)
  • 2. Das Tuch in der Kerzenflamme (silk appears in flame of a candle)
  • 3. Das plötzlich erscheinende Seidentuch (silk appears)
  • 4. Seidentüchlein auf Reisen (silk vanishes and appears knotted between two others, with glass tube)
  • 5. Die magischen Knoten (knotted silks unknot)
 		1902 Moderne Magie 164
Stanley Collins Deck Switch with case, shell
 		1920 Deceptive Conceptions in Magic 29
Edward Bagshawe Perambulating Pasteboards hat covered with handkerchief, cased deck put in container, it vanishes from there (black shell), cards removed from hat in string, case also in hat
 		1924 Exclusive Problems in Magic 32
Capt. J.E. Stone VI. Using a Prepared Cardcase deck shell
 		1938 Greater Magic 208
Robert Parrish Okito Box Deck Switch openly placing bottomless box (quasi a deck shell) from deck to another deck (see Blizzard Switch)
 		1939 Do That Again! 35
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Vanishing Deck deck placed in metal box, silk vanished, deck vanished except selection and silk in box too
 		Winter 1969 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 5 No. 3rd Folio) 300
Unknown The Deck of Cards to Handkerchief Effect inside wooden box
 		1978/76 More Classic Magic with Apparatus 100
Peter Kane The Nudest Nudist Deck with card case transformation kicker
  • Printing the Card Case
 		1982 Kane 130
Unknown Deck Shell
May 1983 Apocalypse (Vol. 6 No. 5) 769
Unknown Deck Shell
1984 The Collected Almanac (Vol. 2 No. Summer Extra) 221
Simon Lovell Crispy Spectator cuts deck, produces pile of potato crisps. Bag of crisps is opened to find selected card.
Inspired by
  • "The Searcher" (Bob Ostin, Magic Mag, vol. 1, no. 3)
 1989 Close Up Magic To Tapdance To 21
Bob Driebeek Aenigmas Vollkommenes Wunder signed card from blue deck transposes with same card from red deck
Also published here
  • Bob Driebeek's "The Perfect Miracle" in "The Gen" July, 1958. P. 77.
 1996 Aenigmas Rätsel 71
Bob Driebeek Aenigmas Vollkommen(er)es Wunder signed card from blue deck transposes with same card from red deck, variation
 		1996 Aenigmas Rätsel 84
Christopher Faria New Wave Tidal Wave impromptu brainwave, one deck used as two decks, deck peeked in blue deck which is cased and pocketed, red deck taken out and selection shown reversed
Inspired by 2001 Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 1 No. 2 July/August) 35
Karl Fulves Loco-Motion follow-up for "Auto Kinetic", toy car replaced in card case, then full deck removed from it, case balances on edge of one-handed fan, signed card to case
Inspired by 2006 Prolix (Issue 1) 5
Tom Stone Cognitive Color Change exploiting change blindness
 		Mar. 2011 Genii (Vol. 74 No. 3) 41