110 entries in Cards / Props & Apparatus / Card Box (e.g. with Flap)
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Voyage d'une carte expliqué Card in a box travel to another card in another box explained, box with flap
1786 86
The Jumping Cards "Two or three Cards having been drawn, returned, and shuffled, to make them jump out of the Pack"
using prop box
1876 130
Changing Card-boxes, and Tricks performed with them
1876 134
The Mechanical Card-box
1876 137
The "Card and Bird" Box
1876 138
The Changing Card-Drawer Drawer Box for card tricks
1876 347
Card-Boxes No. 1
No. 2
No. 3
No. 4: "Card-and-Bird" Box
No. 5
No. 6: Bland's Brass Card-box
No. 7: The Card-Drawer
No. 8: The Double Card-Drawer
1889 151
The Improved Card Drawer "To produce Two Cards in succession from an Empty Drawer", with routine suggestions, including having the spectator decide whether the two selections should appear in the box face-to-face or back-two-back
1890 118
A New Changing Card-box, an Tricks therewith
1890 121
Das Kartenkästchen No. 8, card box with second bottom
Related to 1895 74
Das Kartenkästchen card box with second bottom
Related to 1896 179
The Card Box prop
Related to 1897 138
The Mechanical Card Box prop
1897 139
The Brass Card Box prop
1897 141
The New Brass Card Box prop
1897 142
Carl Willmann Die magische Kassette wooden card box, rather high design, for vanish, appearance, transformation, restoration, even for birds
Apr. 1901
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 7 No. 4)
54
Professor Hoffmann My Friend in Thibet card put in a box, two blank cards in envelopes with pencils, on chosen blank card name of selection appears
1903 497
Tricks performed with the Aid of Card Boxes
1911 116
Bland Bland's Brass Card Box
1911 116
To Produce Two Cards in Succession from an Empty Drawer wooden box apparatus
1911 120
Oswald Rae The Impossible Possible using a Spirit Box, name of card written down on paper and locked in box, blank card in envelope changes to that card
1926 22
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli Eine magische Restauration card torn and pieces placed inside a card box, card is restored, with matching corner
1927 110
Ralph W. Hull Hull's Marvelous Card Prediction three cards predicted, one thought of, two methods, one with Thayer's Lock Flap Card Box, predictions written on billets in clever way
1932 6
Laurie Ireland The Automatic Jig Saw Puzzle Worker using P&L nickle Card Box
1935
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1935, "New Card and Coin Manipulation")
3
Eddie Joseph The Spirit Crochet selection is placed inside box with needle and thread, chosen symbol is found woven on the card
1940 ca. 10
Charles-Emile "Prof. Rex" Sauty Une Nouvelle Présentation de la Boite à la Carte different model and presentation for card box
May 1941 7
Lloyd W. Chambers Ethereal Cards selection vanishes from deck and appears in card case, magnet holds back selection when deck is previously in case
1941 20
Gaston "Gasbor" Borgeaud Kofrapla blank card placed inside card box changes one by one into four selections and back to blank card, followed by french translation
1943
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 5 No. 1)
12
Newton Hall Hypnosthesia three spectators see a card even though that one is apparently removed
Also published here 1944 297
Dr. William Weyeneth Eureka, ich habs! Die Cigarettenschachtel als changieretui oder die Schachtel mit zwei Deckeln cigar box as switching device, followed by french translation "Eureka, j'ai trouvé! La boite à cigarettes pour échange ou une nouvelle boite à double fonds"
Related to Jan. 1945 1
Bruce Elliott Lu-Site box to exchange cards
May 1948
The Phoenix (Issue 151)
609
Hans Trunk Die beste & billigste Kartenkassette der Welt card box made from cigarette box
Related toAlso published here
  • in "Aladin"
1954
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 15 No. 5)
231
Don Tanner Royal Box image of skull appears on blank card in a box, spectator has thought of any dead president, gag
Mar. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 9)
10
Tony Corinda (12) The Three Cards three cards put in a box and are divined, changing card box
1958 157
Oran Bailey Dent Trickities II more ideas
  • Scarf Tray (scarf on table to reduce mess of confetti etc.)
  • Portable Flash Pot Filament
  • Simplicity Card Box (to vanish or produce a card, Z-Fold)
  • Wallpaper Decoration
1959
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1959)
5
Don Tanner The Houdini Card using a card box, card in envelope is placed in box vanishes
Related to 1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
50
Don Tanner The India Rope Trick using a card box, rope trick presented with illustrations on cards
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
50
Don Tanner Tearing a Woman in Half torn card restores inside a card box
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
50
Don Tanner Instant Flowers seeds placed in card box change to spring flowers
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
51
Don Tanner Spirit Cut Ups paper placed in card box, cut out design appears of chosen ESP symbol
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
51
Don Tanner Prediction card box used for two-way out prediction
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
51
Don Tanner Automatic Check Casher check inside card box turns into bill
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
51
Don Tanner The Invisible Seamstress needle threads itself on thread inside card box
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
52
Don Tanner Want Ad Test torn ads, one is placed inside card box and revealed by performer
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
52
Don Tanner Design Duplication using symbol cards and a card box
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
52
Don Tanner Mental Journey cards with different cities, one is chosen an placed unseen in card box, then revealed by performer
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
52
Don Tanner Comedy Spirit Painting skull appears in paper inside card box
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
52
Don Tanner Answering Questions using a card box
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
53
Don Tanner The Spook Spoke in Error face of selection appears on blank card inside card box
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
54
P. Howard Lyons P. Howard Lyons Routine selection vanishes from card box and other card appears on its place, selection is found reversed in the deck, is torn and finally restored in the card box
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
54
Don Tanner Card on the Ribbon card on the end of ribbon, inside card box
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
55
Don Tanner Message in Ashes name of selection appears on business card inside card box
Related to 1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
55
Don Tanner Ghost Card selection between two other cards is sealed in envelope and placed inside card box, selection vanishes
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
55
Don Tanner A Simple Revelation blank card inside card box turns into selection
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
56
Don Tanner Pip Pip blank card and several pips are placed inside card box, when opened again some pips attached to blank card to from selection
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
56
Don Tanner True Value card with all suits and values is placed inside card box, when opened again value and suit from selection are circled
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
56
Don Tanner Card in Orange - Cigarette card vanish from card box, brief
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
56
Don Tanner Clairvoyance card placed unseen in card box is revealed
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
56
Don Tanner Penetrating Card selection placed between two other cards and in card box, selection penetrates card box
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
56
Don Tanner Simple Matter of Addition Eight and Six of Spades change into Fourteen of Spades inside card box
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
57
Don Tanner Ringer gummed reinforcement rings and business cards placed inside card box, when opened rings found on card to form selection
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
57
Don Tanner Invisible Transit card travels from one card box into sealed envelope in second card box
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
57
Don Tanner A Two Faced Trick blank card placed inside card box, faces of two selections appear on card
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
57
Don Tanner Stabbing in the Dark card and small dagger placed inside box, when opened again, card is found pierced
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
57
Don Tanner Visible Flight card vanishes from box and appears in Tanner's Card Frame
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
58
Don Tanner Under Cover miniature card vanishes from a box and appears between two stapled cards in other box
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
58
Don Tanner Easy to Please changing pip card in card box
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
58
Don Tanner Transpositions using two card boxes, brief
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
58
Don Tanner Blank card turns blank inside card box
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
58
Don Tanner The Lineup cards from Ace to Five are shuffled and placed inside card box, when opened again, cards are back in order
1962
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962)
58
Gerald Kosky The Spirit Writes writing appears on blank and marked card, using mechanical Card Box
Also published here 1969 91
Lady Valerie, Gene Nielsen Star Mate with zodiac cards, matching, locking-flap Card Box
1970
Magick (Issue 7)
33
Stewart Judah Substitution Trunk card case prop with flap, card inside and outside transpose
VariationsAlso published here Autumn 1974
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 10th Folio (Part One))
804
Werner Ritter, J. B. Stadler Was noch nachzutragen wäre! Aus München ideas for the Emsley Count with business cards (Ritter), the card box using a handkerchief and hair curlers for building props (Stadler)
1975
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 36 No. 5)
98
Gerald Kosky The Spirit Writes writing appears on card with famous person on it, Hypnotic card box
Also published here 1975 184
Gerald Kosky Mass Hypnotism pseudo hypnotism act, audience is apparently hypnotised, things written on slates are different, scarfs are not knotted and cards are different then remembered
1975 194
Stephen Minch Anthropophagic Jacks Jack put on card, card becomes blank with bone picture, more cards become blank between two Jacks, rubber-banded Three become miniature card, card with fly picture vanishes, Jacks transform in flap card case, partial rough-smooth
1977 11
Robert Albo Card Boxes various models
1978/76 42
The Deck of Cards to Handkerchief Effect inside wooden box
1978/76 100
Ken De Courcy The 20th Century Card Discovery silk with print of selected card appears between two other silks, selection in card box became blank
1980 37
Richard Himber Card Box (Himber)
1982 199
Card Box (Gammage)
1982 200
Stewart Judah Die Karten-Fluchtkiste card case prop with flap, card inside and outside transpose
Also published here July 1985
Intermagic (Vol. 11 No. 3 & 4)
136
Rudolf Braunmüller Die Kartenkassette intro
Dec. 1986
Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 3 & 4)
180
Philip T. Goldstein Der Kartencomputer card travels into card box prop
Dec. 1986
Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 3 & 4)
180
Oscar H. Paulson Ein Anruf im Jenseits unknown card put in card box, then divined, comedy routine
Dec. 1986
Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 3 & 4)
182
Earl Rybolt Noch ein paar Effektideen - 1. card travels into card case apparatus with ribbon going through a hole
Dec. 1986
Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 3 & 4)
183
Don Tanner Noch ein paar Effektideen - 2. skull appears on business card in card box prop (freely named but dead person)
Related to Dec. 1986
Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 3 & 4)
183
Don Tanner Noch ein paar Effektideen - 3. using a card box, card in envelope is placed in box is then outside of envelope
Related to Dec. 1986
Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 3 & 4)
183
Lu Brent Noch ein paar Effektideen - 4. thread, needle and paper put in card case prop, thread sews chosen symbol into card
Dec. 1986
Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 3 & 4)
183
Peter Wilker Und sie bewegt sich doch first performer's card travels to card box, then spectator's card
1987
Magische Blätter (Vol. 1 No. 7)
15
Peter Wilker Das Datum deck with numbers, cards are cut in packets and top cards changed, cards form date or birthday, using card box
Also published here
  • George Blake's "Four Ace Finale" in "Commercial Card Tricks" 1969.
1988
Magische Blätter (Vol. 2 No. 1)
1
Thomas Alan Waters Inflexion design duplication, card box with mirror flap
Sep. 1990
Magick (Issue 445)
2225
Diabelli Die Gerechtigkeit open prediction with Tarot cards, stopped at card is placed in box
1991 19
Peter Warlock Childs Play card placed in box divined by medium, magnetic card box
Mar. 1992
New Sorcerer (Vol. 1 No. 1)
11
Steve Dusheck Card Force Box
1992 143
Zig Zag Bill using a card box for bills
Related to 1993
Rigmarole (Issue 2)
20
Karl Fulves Zig Zag Bill on the flap card case and the history of the Zig Zag illusion
Related to 1993
Verbatim (Issue 3)
17
Don Tanner Kartenchangier-Kassetten-Tricks
  • skull appears on business card in case, gag
  • "Houdini" written on business card, put in envelope and then in card box, card is then outside
Related to 2000
Intermagic (Vol. 23 No. 4 & 5)
144
Al Baker The Houdini Escape card travels from wooden card box into deck, torn corner convincer
Also published here
  • The Sphinx, Vol. 29 No. 6, Aug. 1930
2003 629
Al Baker Roterberg Card Box Trick card with torn corner from box to pack
2003 733
Al Baker Simplified Roterberg Card Box Trick
2003 735
P. Howard Lyons Confusion selected card placed in flap box changes, selection appears reversed in deck and is torn up and placed in box where it restores
Jan. 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 1)
77
Chris Wardle The Time Machine top card put in black card box prop, it vanishes and is back on top
2003 19
Max Maven Cushion Shot Aces placed in card case prop, they change into three selection, then vanish from box and all seven cards appear in collectors fashion in deck
Feb. 2005
Antinomy (Vol. 1 No. 1)
30
Doug Edwards In A Whisper! whispering joker routine, using Wayne Sanderson's card box
2006 134
Tom Stone Hip Hip Hurray! using Tenyo hinged/flap card box and two blank cards with "Hip" written on them
Also published here 2007 4
Tom Stone Hip Hip Hurray! using Tenyo hinged/flap card box and two blank cards with "Hip" written on them
Also published here 2011 185
Alfred "Berlany" Hoffmann The In-and-Out Switch gimmicked box
Related to
  • MAGIE (June 1932)
2013 135
Patrick G. Redford The Light & Heavy Card Box
  • Phase One: Spectator is unable to lift up the deck from performer's hand
Variations 2018 10