190: Tom Mullica's Switching Cigarette Case. English, c

Tom Mullica's Switching Cigarette Case. English, ca. 1970. Leather covered metal cigarette case used by Tom Mullica in his performance of the Bill in Cigarette; the case facilitated a secret exchange of a duplicate torn corner from a bill for the torn corner of a borrowed bill; at the conclusion of the routine, when the "borrowed" bill was discovered inside a cigarette, the switched-in corner was used to verify that the bill was indeed that which had been previously borrowed. A clever spring-hinged flap has been built in to the case, using the cigarettes themselves to hide the action. Good condition.