Professor Heller's Magic Trick Cards, c. 1870s, Extremely Rare universal glass flask but to my eye it

but to my eye it is quite beautiful in all of its humility

Hard to beat mustachioed faces topped with red bowler hats

From a second batch of drawings by the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929-2015)

5 1/8" long x 3 7/8" deep x 2 1/4" tall

Wire inserted into the openings of the oars runs through oarlocks on either side

Professor Heller's Magic Trick Cards, c. 1870s, Extremely Rare universal glass flask but to my eye itYou know how much I love antique square corner no indices playing cards, so you can imagine how excited I was to find these antique magic trick cards! Even cooler to learn about the fascinating life of "Professor" Robert Heller (born William Henry Palmer; 18261878) the English magician, mentalist and musician who devised these (more about him below) and to find no other sets of these trick cards anywhere out there, at least that I can see. When