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Werry's Matchbox Illusion

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Werry's Matchbox Illusion is a pocket trick in which a coin is vanished after placing in on a table inside a triangle composed of three wooden matches then briefly covered by a playing card and the matchbox.
Ad in Magigram cicra 1993

It was first described in Werner Geissler's magic magazine Magische Welt.[1]

Rights were granted to Supreme Magic to sell and was pirated under many different names including Nifty Nickel, Ghostly Farthing, Well I Never (by Tannen), Astro Coin, and the Bermuda Triangle.[2]


References

  1. George Blake's column in Magigram, April 1973
  2. http://www.geniimagazine.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=282263