Stuff - A Collection of Original Magic - Eric Mason

£40

Stuff is a beautifully designed and produced book (now available as an ebook) of top-quality magic and contains detailed descriptions of several marketed props and routines. These include the Beta Wallet, the Breese-Mason Wallet, Cummupence, the Silver Retriever, the Golden Retriever, and Pandora. Eric Mason was not only a brilliant inventor and magician; he was a creative and talented illustrator. You will find several examples of Mason’s skill as an illustrator in this ebook.

Eric Mason was a highly talented and exceptionally creative magician and illustrator. He was the Art Editor of Pabular magazine and illustrated countless books. He released many commercial magic effects including the Beta Wallet, the Breese-Mason Wallet, Cummupence, the Silver Retriever, and the Golden Retriever, and many of these effects are described in this ebook.

Eric used to share the spotlight with Fred Robinson at the Marlborough Arms public house near the Magic Circle on Monday evenings. There the alternative Magic Circle met and Eric was always ready to perform a seemingly impromptu miracle; seemingly impromptu because his pockets were always so jammed full of props that David Britland once described Eric as, ‘Rattling with magic as he walked.'

He was a great sleight-of-hand performer and was so adept with coin sleights that he could back-clip an old English penny and hold a half-dollar coin in the palm of the same hand. He used to throw the half-dollar up in the air and as it landed back on his palm he would back-clip it and simultaneously release and display the penny concealed between the back of his fingers. As far as a spectator could see, Eric held a half-dollar in his open hand, tossed it up in the air, and by the time it landed back in his hand it had changed into a penny.

Early in his career, Eric and his wife Eileen lived in a caravan in Cornwall for several years where Eric spent his time designing, painting, and illustrating. Unusually, many of his paintings were published in miniature form on matchbox covers.