June 2025
In this issue:
- Anne Goulden returns to our pages with an analysis of how the British visit of American mentalist Anne Eva Fay helped JN Maskelyne overcame a ticky problem at the Egyptian Hall.
- Our editor/publisher Marco Pusterla presents his research on a 1440 miniature showing a magician performing the cups and balls trick at a fayre, an image unknown to most magicians and historians.
- In 1997, Thomas Stauss discovered a splendid example of “blow book” with wonderful and unusual images, produced towards the middle of the 17th century. Many hiterto unpublished images grace our pages.
- The recent Belgian Magic History Conference (Historie van de Magie) is reviewed by co-organizer Kobe Van Herwegen as an international record of this educational event.
- Many pages are dedicate to magic auctions of the last three months, presenting the most unusual magical items that have gone under the hammer in our regular Auction Action column, with reviews of the last auctions of the collections of Eddie Dawes and Ricky Jay, amongst others.
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