Boston Box

58 entries in Coin / Effect Themes / Coin Box Routines / Boston Box
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Der Changier-Cylinder coins placed in small cylinder coin box vanish
 		May 1896
Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 1 No. 9)
138
Carl Willmann Willmann's Whistmarkendose routine with coin box, done with some kind of poker chips or coins, box has loose bottoms, boston feature and more
 		Mar. 1898
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 4 No. 3)
38
Der Changiercylinder Boston box, with or without lid, short sequences
 		Nov. 1899
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 5 No. 11)
168
George Boston The George Boston Combination Coin Box coins penetrate box and hand
 		1952
Modern Coin Magic
230
Copper Silver Transposition with the Combination Coin Box
1952
Modern Coin Magic
231
Rolland Hamblen Routine No. 16 with boston and lippincott coin box
 		1952
Modern Coin Magic
349
Lewis Ganson Boxes and Brass introduction to coin boxes
  • German Box
  • Okito Box
  • George Boston Box
  • Brass Coin Cap
 		1967
The Art of Close-Up Magic — Volume 1
56
Fred Lowe Boston Three Step without the handkerchief and an extra penetration of a coin
Inspired by 1967
The Art of Close-Up Magic — Volume 1
72
Sam Schwartz Incredi-Box Magic combination of Boston & Okito box with shims in bottom and lid
  • Construction
  • Instant Push Through (coin through bottom of box)
  • Quick Change (four half dollars change to four quarters in box)
Related to Mar. 1972
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 7 No. 5)
510
Karl Fulves Modified Boston Boxes
Apr. 1974
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 6)
729
Alex Elmsley Boston Two Step small coin travels from handkerchief to box with half dollars, then all coins travel to handkerchief and box is empty
Variations 1978
A new look at the Okito Box
27
Bill Tarr The Okito Box intro
  • The Boston Box
  • The Incredi-Box
  • The Current Okito Box
 		1978
The second now you see it, now you don't!
186
Bob Gabrielle Something Happened coins travel from box to different spot on table
 		May 1979
Apocalypse (Vol. 2 No. 5)
197
Tommy Wonder Coins Across - A Presentation Part 1
 		Feb. 1979
Pabular (Vol. 5 No. 2)
634
Tommy Wonder Coins Across - A Presentation part 2
 		Mar. 1979
Pabular (Vol. 5 No. 3)
652
Tommy Wonder One In the Eye
Apr. 1979
Pabular (Vol. 5 No. 4)
660
Alex Elmsley Boston Two-Step small coin travels from handkerchief to box with half dollars, then all coins travel to handkerchief and box is empty
Also published here 1979
Das Mike Skinner / Piet Forton Seminarheft (Issue Das Mike Skinner Seminarheft)
12
Steve Beam Pandora's Box II boston box, coins appear in box
 		1982
Steve Beam On Coins — Volume II
45
Mike Bornstein Your Favorite Ace four coins travel from box to under four cards
 		1982
Triumph Outdone
48
Fred Kaps O-Korto For Two long routine in which coins and box penetrate hands and box shrinks so coins do not fit in any more
Related toAlso published here 1984
Arcane (Issue 11)
137
David Roth Metamorphosis Box Switch (Opening Production No. 1)
 		1985
Expert Coin Magic
215
David Roth Opening Production No. 2 (The Boston Palm Load) Four coin production from coin box
 		1985
Expert Coin Magic
216
David Roth Opening Production No. 3 four coin production from coin box/ box switch
 		1985
Expert Coin Magic
218
Russ Burns Banned in Boston okito box used as boston box
 		Dec. 1987
Apocalypse (Vol. 10 No. 12)
1434
Jay Sankey Monty Hall Goes Close-up borrowed ring in one hand transposes with four coins in coin box
VariationsAlso published here May 1987
Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 1 No. 10)
1
Bob King Chinese Surprise four half dollars taken from box, they change into copper, halves back in box, then four Chinese coins appear in box
 		1989
Magician Foolers
18
Mike Bornstein Ace to Fifty Coins from Box to under four Aces
 		June 1990
Apocalypse (Vol. 13 No. 6)
1798
Bob Kohler Brass-Ackwards Production four coins produced from Boston Box at once
 		1990
Impossibilia
94
Jay Sankey Monty Hall Goes Close-Up borrowed ring in one hand transposes with four coins in coin box
Also published here Feb. 1990
Intermagic (Vol. 15 No. 2)
58
Dean Nicholas Boston Box Routine three phases, coins appear in box, one-by-one traveling, as finale all coins travel from box to hand at once
 		Oct. 1992
New Sorcerer (Vol. 1 No. 3)
10
Steve Draun An Okito Favorite coins penetrate hand, spectator cannot place coins into box, box penetrates hand and coins remain
Inspired by May 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 9)
58
Chad Long Okito Revers-embly matrix type routine with Okito box in one corner under one of the cards, backfire
 		Dec. 1993
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 4)
57
Alex Elmsley Boston Two-Step small coin travels from handkerchief to box with half dollars, then all coins travel to handkerchief and box is empty
VariationsAlso published here 1994
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2
268
Chad Long X-tracting 4 coins from box to hand one by one
 		1994
The Lost Cheesy Notebooks — Volume One
17
Tommy Wonder Coins Across and Back with Interlude coins across twice with backfire, coin through box
  • Phase One: Silver Bullets
  • Phase Two: Copper Interlude
  • Phase Three: Perverse Reverse
  • Phase Four: Bertram Redux
Inspired byVariations 1996
The Books of Wonder — Volume 1
231
Tom Kechter, Eric Mead, Homer Liwag Lip Balm lip balm container as boston coin box, three quarters vanish from it and lip balm is there instead
 		1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue New Stuff)
37
Dominique Duvivier Duvivier Coin Box Okito box type of routine done with an extra black plastic box for the coin box itself, Okito box has flexible Boston Box feature
 		1996
Magie Duvivier
46
Mike Gallo Out Boxed lid travels on coin box, then coins penetrate box
 		1997
The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 63)
1241
John Derris, Jack Avis Namreg Coin Box Routine four coins appear at once in Boston con box that was shown empty
 		1998
Vis à Vis
15
Milton Kort The Okorto Box Routine Coins in coin box penetrate out through hand, then box penetrates hand
Related to 1999
Kort
209
Milton Kort CoBoxGo Coins vanish from box, box then vanishes (uses handkerchief)
 		1999
Kort
231
Milton Kort CoBoxGo 2 Half dollars in box transform into pennies, then box vanishes
 		1999
Kort
237
Wayne Dobson X-Change four coins travel from box to another corner of close-up mat or handkerchief
Inspired by 2004
Dobson's Choice 3
8
Bob Farmer Mojo Boogie Boxes Two-Box Routine
  • Flim-FlaMagic
coin travel from one coin box to another repeatedly, one in pocket and one on table
 		Oct. 2005
Genii (Vol. 68 No. 10)
28
Sam Schwartz Coin Thru Hand four coins through hand one by one, slotted boston box
Related to 2008
Prolix (Issue 5)
314
Sam Schwartz Coin Thru Hand Boston Slot Box
Related to 2009
Prolix (Issue 6)
362
Tom Stone Monty Walks Again four coins in coin box transpose with finger ring on string
Inspired byAlso published here 2009
Prey of the Prestidigitator
6
Tom Stone Monty Walks Again four coins in coin box transpose with finger ring on string
Inspired byAlso published here 2010
Vortex
23
Sam Schwartz Coin Thru Hand Boston Slot Box
Related to 2010
Prolix (Issue 7)
440
Sam Schwartz Conversion Coins four silver coins change to copper as they penetrate the bottom of the coin box
 		2010
Prolix (Issue 8)
524
Sam Schwartz Copper Escape copper coin between two silver coins put in box, copper coin penetrates box
 		2011
Prolix (Issue 9)
598
Fred Kaps O-Korto para dos long routine in which coins and box penetrate hands and box shrinks so coins do not fit in any more (translated by Jesus Etcheverry)
Also published here 2011
El Manuscrito (Vol. 4 No. 18)
562
Gregg Webb Journey Through Boston four copper coins dumped from box, then four silver coins, then they transpose
 		Feb. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 2)
40
Alexander de Cova Boxing Boston coins penetrate from box to inside handkerchief-covered glass
 		2015
Burners — Vol. 1
246
Geoffrey Latta Okito Arrives from Boston empty coin box fills itself with coins, box switch
Also published here 2017
The Long Goodbye — Latta on Coins
225
Carisa Hendrix The Polite Pickpocket five coins in spectator's hand, one vanishes and appears on spectator's shoulder, another vanishes, then four coins penetrate coin box and magician's hand
Inspired by 2020
Magic for BLM
139
Andi Gladwin Oh-Kito four coins, three travel into coin box one by one that is resting onto a shot glass, then the three travel back into the hand, then four coins put in box on top of glass with handkerchief cover, only box penetrates to under glass
  • Boston Box Version
Inspired by
  • last phase inspired by Paul Daniels performance on television
 2022
Ubuntu
53
Bob Farmer The Use of Abstraction in the Invention of Magic Tricks on the Mojo Boogie Boxes Routine, Roy Kueppers, Bammo Queen Monte Routine
 		May 2023
PM2 (Issue 28)
37