Lovick, John, Owen, Anthony

Book

2017
Written by John Lovick*, Anthony Owen
Work of Anthony Owen

237 pages (Hardcover), published by Vanishing Inc.
Illustrated with drawings by Tony Dunn
Language: English

66 entries

This publication has been reviewed by

David Britland (Genii, Vol. 81 No. 4, Apr. 2018, p. 90)

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
Andy Nyman	Foreword			1	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Anthony Owen	Introduction			3	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Anthony Owen	Interview	with Anthony Owen		5	Articles / Interviews
Anthony Owen	Chapter One - Sticky Tricks	on Changin' Glue, chapter intro		11	Cards / Principles / Sticky Articles / Articles
Anthony Owen	SOBW	3&3, three phases, last one phase up	Also published here SOBW (Anthony Owen, Some Tricks, 2003)	13	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / Oil & Water / One Back Color
Sebastien Clergue	Lava Lamp	alternate handling for last phase of SOBW, face up oil and water sequence, 3&3	Also published here Lava Lamp (Sebastien Clergue, Some Tricks, 2003)	26	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / Oil & Water / One Back Color
Anthony Owen, David Regal	SOBW Further Thoughts	Examination In the Spectator's Hands David Regal's Get-Ready for Phase Three		30	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / Oil & Water / One Back Color
Anthony Owen	Voodoo Tattoo	card chosen and returned to deck, any letter written on paper and burned, letter is found burned into selection, twenty-six double facers with same card on one side	Also published here Branded Card III (Anthony Owen, Channel One, 2000) also in: Branded Card III (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 2007) Inspired by The Burned Card (Eugene Burger, Secrets and Mysteries for the Close-up Entertainer, 1982) also in: The Burned Card (Mastering the Art of Magic, 2000) Brandzeichen II (Jörg Alexander Weber, 7 Close-Up, 1996) Related to Anthony Owen's "Branded Card 3" 1997.	34	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Sympathetic Effects / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Anthony Owen	Brainwash	named card has large X on the back, same card is found in performer's wallet	Also published here Brainwash (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 2007)	38	Wallet Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects
Anthony Owen	Pred-Ikea-Ction	cards with different pieces of furniture on one side, on the other side prizes, chosen one has "Sold Out" on the back	Also published here Pred-Ikea-ction (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 2008) Related to Remote Control Improved (Orville Wayne Meyer, Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, 1937) also in: Remote Control Improved (A History of the Brainwave Principle, 1983) The Happy Horoscoper (Philip T. Goldstein, The Red Book of Mentalism, 1977) also in: The Happy Horoscoper (A Phil Goldstein Collection*, 1989)	42	Cards / Principles / Sticky Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous
Anthony Owen	Sticky Intruder	card with mark on face is chosen	Also published here Sticky Intruder (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 2008) also in: Sticky Intruder (Anthony Owen, The Sticky Blue Book, 2009) Inspired by Pentagram, Vol. 10 No. 12, September 1956 also in: Open Intruder (The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2, 1994) Open Intruder (Mr. Gadfly, 2001)	48	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Open Prediction Theme Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Jack Avis	Spread Switch			49	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Spread Switches / Miscellaneous
Anthony Owen	The Light Card	odd-backed "signed card" type effect, card to wallet	Also published here The Light Bulp (Anthony Owen, The Sticky Blue Book, 2009) Inspired by The Dream Card (Darwin Ortiz, Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table, 1988) The Autograph Exchange (A Card In Wallet) (Alan Wakeling, MAGIC, 1992) also in: Card in Wallet: An Autograph Exchange (The Magic of Alan Wakeling, 1993)	51	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Illogical Things / Signed Card & Mystery Card Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Wallet Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Backer / Same Color
Andy Nyman, Anthony Owen	Miracle Monte 2.0	blank cards with face of a Queen	Inspired by Andy Nyman's "Monte" in "The Dungeon" March, 1994, Miracle Monte (Andy Nyman, Anthony Owen, Bulletproof, 2010)	56	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Three Card Monte / Packet Trick with Monte theme
Edward Marlo	Flushtration Count Variation			59	Cards / Sleights / False Display / All alike
Trevor Lewis	Monte Plus Move			60	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Monte Throw & Switches
Anthony Owen	Caravan Travellers	Kings travel to table and change to Aces	Also published here Caravan Travellers (Anthony Owen, The Sticky Blue Book, 2009) Inspired by Travlrs 1 (Chris Kenner, Totally Out Of Control, 1992) a routine by Paul Hallas in "The Dungeon"	63	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Open Travelers Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Backer / Same Color
Arthur Finley*	Tent Vanish			64	Cards / Sleights / Vanish / Tent Vanish
Anthony Owen	Sticky Blue Danube	fusion of two cards, signed on both sides	Also published here The Blue Danube (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 1997) Inspired by Heat (Aldo Colombini, Apocalypse, 1997)	68	Cards / Effect Themes / Signature Effects Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Backer / Same Color Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Anthony Owen, John Lenahan, Chuck Fayne	Signed Card Anywhere		Also published here Signing On The Chairman (John Lenahan, Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 1997) also in: The Signed Card In Anything (John Lenahan, Anthony Owen, Chuck Fayne, The Sticky Blue Book, 2009) Variations Mark of Death (Anthony Owen, John Lenahan, Secrets, 2017)	72	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Anything Pen & Pencil / Special Ink Cards / Principles / Duplicates / Pseudo & Impromptu Duplicate
Anthony Owen	On the Cards	two blank cards, with signature and pictures, pictures transpose	Inspired by On the Slate (Roy Johnson, Peter Warlock, Second Time Around, 1971) Jon Allen, John Gordon & Richard Pinner's "Stick to Business" in the instruction booklet for the Glink pen	75	Cards / Effect Themes / Signature Effects Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Miscellaneous
Anthony Owen, John Lenahan	Mark of Death	signed card to wallet, held by spectator	Inspired by Signing On The Chairman (John Lenahan, Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 1997) also in: The Signed Card In Anything (The Sticky Blue Book, 2009) Signed Card Anywhere (Secrets, 2017)	77	Cards / Principles / Card Index Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Wallet Cards / Principles / Duplicates / Pseudo & Impromptu Duplicate
Anthony Owen	Chapter Two - Sleights and Sorcery			81	Articles / Chapter Heading
Anthony Owen	The Caravan Move	face up Tent Vanish		83	Cards / Sleights / Vanish / Tent Vanish
Anthony Owen	The Caravan Change			84	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Anthony Owen	The Caravan Peek	peek with business cards		85	Business Cards Mental Magic / Principles / Glimpsing
Roy Walton*	Navarac	production of four Aces, reversed Caravan move		86	Cards / Effect Themes / Appearance & Production / Face up on the Deck
Roy Walton*	The Caravan Sandwich	Kings vanish and found next to selection		87	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Simple Sandwich
Roy Walton*	The Caravan Kings	transposition of red and black Kings, two Kings in pocket and two held by spectator		87	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Miscellaneous
Peter Duffie	Trick Photography	Aces in pocket change into selection and Aces are found reversed in the deck		88	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Asymmetric Transposition
Anthony Owen	WSBP Window Stealing Bottom Palm			91	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Side Steals (not to palm!)
Anthony Owen	Ambitious Card Finale	additional sequence after the Braue Pop Up Move	Inspired by The Pop-Up Card (Frederick Braue, Expert Card Technique, 1940)	94	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Climaxes
Anthony Owen	Chapter Three - Coins			97	Articles / Chapter Heading
Anthony Owen	The Amazing Karate Pencil of Death	coin through pencil	Also published here The Amazing Karate Pencil Of Death (Anthony Owen, Some More Tricks, 2007)	99	Coin / Gaffed / Sticky Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Cigarette, Pencil, ... through Coin
Bob Elliott, Michael Ammar	Flipswitch			100	Coin / Sleights / Switches / Simple Switches
Anthony Owen	Elevated Matrix	ring as substitute	Inspired by High Hoe (Jay Sankey, 100% Sankey, 1990) Ringing In The Gaff (David Ben, Tricks, 2003)	106	Coin / Gaffed / Sticky Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Matrix / Four Cards
Anthony Owen	Chapter Four - Out Of This Chapter			111	Articles / Chapter Heading
Anthony Owen	Out Of This Street			113	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / by Spectator / Out of this World & Variants / Deck
Anthony Owen	Out Of This House	angle-jogging cards while dealing them on the table	Also published here Out Of This House (Anthony Owen, Some More Tricks, 2007) Inspired by The Green Angle Separation (Lennart Green, The Green Angle Separation, 1995)	117	Cards / Sleights / Culling / Red-Black Separations
Anthony Owen	Out Of This Book From The Library	blindfold spectator, two different backs, with alternate handling in two glasses	Also published here Out Of This Book From The Library (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 2006) Inspired by Stephen Tucker's "Out Of This Dimension" in "The Crimp" Nr. 6.	121	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / by Spectator / Out of this World & Variants / Deck
Anthony Owen	Chapter Five - Cards			127	Articles / Chapter Heading
Anthony Owen	Holey Security Guards, Robin!	Holy P.O.D., flap gaff, cards can be examined		129	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Point of Departure (often Traveling effect)
Anthony Owen, John Lenahan	The Miracle Card	with two blanked cards	Inspired by Abracadabra, Vol. 13 No. 335, June 28, 1952, p. 361 also in: Between Your Palms (The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2, 1994)	133	Cards / Effect Themes / Illogical Things / Between Your Palms
Bill Simon	Business Card Prophecy Move			135	Cards / Sleights / Force / Stabbing Force / Business Card Prophecy
Anthony Owen, John Lenahan	Card-Toon Free	Card-Toon variation, using Joe Stuthard's Trilby Deck, end-stripper & svengali		138	Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Card-Toon Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Svengali Principle / Trilby Deck
Anthony Owen, Paul Andrews	The Birthday Deck	deck with numbers and months, performer reverses some of them which match birthday of spectator, then numbers and months of other cards vanish	Also published here The Birthday Deck (Anthony Owen, Paul Andrews, MAGIC, 2008) Related to Dan Harlan's "Birthday Suit"	141	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Color Changing Deck Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous
Anthony Owen	Chapter Six - Situational Sorcery			145	Articles / Chapter Heading
Anthony Owen	Silk Handkerchief to Spectator's Sleeve - An Approach to the Approach			147	Silk & Handkerchief / Traveling / Miscellaneous
Anthony Owen	A Meal for Monteneuf	swallowing signed knife, x-ray to proof it, Le Fruit d'Or de Monteneuf	Also published here A Meal for Monteneuf (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 2008) Related to Happy Meal (Flip Hallema, Gordon Meyer, MAGIC, 2008)	151	Knife & Paddle / Vanish Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous
Anthony Owen, Marc Paul	The Perfect Match	two matches signed by performer and spectator travel and eventually fuse together	Also published here Perfect Match (Anthony Owen, Marc Paul, MAGIC, 2004) also in: Perfect Match (Anthony Owen, Marc Paul, Talk About Tricks, 2022)	155	Match & Matchbox / Match / Miscellaneous Match & Matchbox / Match / Traveling
Anthony Owen	Chapter Seven - Mantalism			159	Articles / Chapter Heading
Anthony Owen, Marc Paul, Andy Stone	Killer Kombustion	named card predicted in envelope, inspired by Kolossal Killer	Also published here Killer Kombustion (Marc Paul, Andy Stone, Anthony Owen, Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 3, 2000) also in: Killer Kombustion (Anthony Owen, Marc Paul, Andy Stone, MAGIC, 2007) Inspired by Kolossal Killer (Kenton Knepper, The Original Kolossal Killer, 1998 ca.) Related to Shorted (Alexander Fontana, MAGIC, 2007)	161	Cards / Principles / Multiple Out Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Anthony Owen	RE: Monition	two decks with different backs, named card is missing from one and found in other, two handlings	Also published here Re:monition (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 2006) also in: RE: Monition (Anthony Owen, Some More Tricks, 2007) Inspired by Club 71, May 1989 also in: ...And One Makes Fifty-two (Theater of the Mind, 1999)	165	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Premonition & Named Vanish Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks / Brainwave & Invisible Deck
Anthony Owen	Number At Card	deck with numbers on the backs, named card has named number on back, two versions	Also published here Number At Card (Anthony Owen, Some Tricks, 2003) also in: Number at Card (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 2008)	175	Cards / Principles / Instant Stooge Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Principles / Stooge Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers) Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Number Prediction Mental Magic / Principles / Pre-Show Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Memorized / Full Deck
Anthony Owen	The Natural Lottery	prediction of named lottery numbers on ticket in wallet	Also published here The Natural Lottery (Anthony Owen, Some Tricks, 2003) also in: The Natural Lottery (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 2006)	185	Numbers / Prediction & Sum-Divination Games / Lottery Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous
Anthony Owen	Chapter Eight - Television Trickery			197	Articles / Chapter Heading
Anthony Owen	Who Wants to Be a Magician?	"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" theme, comedy questions and answers on cards, spectator always selects correct answer	Also published here Who Wants to Be a Magician? (Anthony Owen, Some Tricks, 2003)	199	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Rough and Smooth (not full deck) Comedy Magic & Comedy Props Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / by Spectator
Anthony Owen	Big Survivor 2	prediction of chosen person, procedure similar to TV-Shows Big Brother and Survivor	Also published here Big Survivor 2 (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 2007) also in: Big Survivor 2 (Anthony Owen, Some More Tricks, 2007)	204	Mental Magic / Principles / Multiple Out Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Paper / Envelopes / Switching with single Envelope & Two-Way Envelopes
Anthony Owen	Deal Or No Deal	"Deal or No Deal" presentation for Bank Night	Also published here Deal or No Deal (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 2006)	211	Bill / Banknight Theme & Variations Paper / Envelopes / Switching with single Envelope & Two-Way Envelopes
Anthony Owen	Ring On Notepad	finger ring travels on spiral of notepad	Also published here Ring On Notepad (Anthony Owen, Some More Tricks, 2007) Related to Ian Adair in "Abracadabra" Nr. 3068	217	Ring / Finger Rings / Traveling / Miscellaneous
Anthony Owen, Pete McCahon, Andrew O'Connor, Richard Pinner	Recaffeinated Coffee	performer pours coffee, milk and sugar into a cup and drinks it, then items are spitted out from mouth seperately	Also published here Recaffinated Coffee (Anthony Owen, Pete McCahon, Andrew O'Connor, Richard Pinner, Some More Tricks, 2007)	224	Liquid / Miscellaneous Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Miscellaneous
Anthony Owen	Interactive Magic	intro		227	Articles / Articles
Anthony Owen	You Couldn't Planet	interactive trick chosen planet, spelling planet and moving on chart	Also published here You Couldn't Planet (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 2007)	228	Articles / Magic on TV Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Anthony Owen	Superstarsign	interactive magic, spelling star sign on chart	Also published here Superstarsign (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 2007)	230	Articles / Magic on TV Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Anthony Owen	Cards on TV	piano trick used for video call		232	Magic for Video Calls & Zoom Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Piano Card Trick
Anthony Owen	Top Tips For A Magician On Television		Related to Tips for TV (Anthony Owen, MAGIC, 2008)	235	Articles / Magic on TV

Data entered by Lorenz Schär, February 2021.

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