Professor Heller's Magic Trick Cards, c. 1870s, Extremely Rare universal glass flask a few with horns

a few with horns

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

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

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

perhaps original to the making

Professor Heller's Magic Trick Cards, c. 1870s, Extremely Rare universal glass flask a few with hornsYou 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