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Germain’s Improved Coffee and Wool Trick. London: Ornum’s Magic, ca. 1907. Metal vase (4 x 13”) with cardboard cover and shallow lid is filled with wool, only to magically change into coffee or candy. Ornum’s advertised the apparatus as performed at St. George’s Hall with improvements by Karl Germain. Outer cover mildly stained with losses, some tarnish underside, else very good. With original printed instructions.


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Date:
2016-04-09

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