OOP Stuff (book) – Eric Mason

These are “new” old stock and DJ may show some wear from storage.

Stuff is a beautifully designed and produced book 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 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 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.

2nd edition 1989; 155 pages

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface to Second Edition

Introduction by Fred Robinson

Introduction by Barrie Richardson

Introduction by Gordon Bruce

Forword

Orringinal

Framed

Note in Cigarette

Kapala

Ashram

Desiderata

Overture

Caboodle

Eca Tuoba Ecaf

Ubique Sed Non

A Birthday Card

The Wimbledon Aces

Acemblage

Put and Take

Spread Eagled

My Card – Your Card – Anybody’s Card

Topsyturvy

One Million To One

Banditry

Anything For A Change

The One Handed Fiddler

Classical Bit

The Problem Is

Beauideal

The Married Lady

Billett-Doux

Brainwave

The Mason Spread

Arise Comrades

The Pit-A-Patter of a Tiny Feat

Fred Trick The Great

Sock It And See

Uriker

Amason

Make A Note Of It

Watch

For A Borrowed Note

Impromptu Coins Across

Twenty To One

Snap Backclip Throw

The Coin In A Bottle

A Pound With A Bottle

A Peep Into A Bottle

Come In Jimmy Herbert

One Green Bottle

Cumuppence

Moniker

Papier

On Reflection

N.C.R.

Tactoscophy

Kineto

Magnifique

The Cuffs

The Silver & Golden Retrievers

Pandora

Reviews

Collarboon

Nefertiti

Mental Magic Square

Card In Cigarette Pack

Pop

Matchless

Mason Color Improvement to the Monahan Paddle

Eric Mason Wallet

Violistik