Thought Explosion Wallet by Supreme Magic Company, Billy McComb, Roy Roth

This is a great wallet invented by Billy McComb, released by Supreme Magic and manufactured by Roy Roth.  It was basically re-invented by Collectors’ Workshop as Any Card To Wallet about 15 years later, but this is the original.

This wallet is a perfect tool to create a complete miracle with Magiro’s Perfect Switch Case.

(Notice: this wallet originally came with a deck of standard bridge size cards.  However, I felt these were still quite thick and so replaced them with half a deck of Cark-Shark Phoenix Double Deckers.  These are a little wider but are half the thickness and help the wallet look a lot less bulky.  It is easy enough to replace them for bridge size cards or indeed standard Poker size cards too, if so desired.)

Effect: Put some of magic’s finest brains together and Wham! – a new miracle is born. That’s exactly what happened to bring about the creation of this effect. BILLY McCOMB had the original idea; ALAN KENNAUGH the enthusiasm to see its possibilities, EDWIN added the ‘magic touch’ and turned the thing into a practical reality making it possible to freely show the wallet; skilled leather-worker, ROY ROTH, was specially commissioned to make the product … and there you have it!

One of the simplest, most effective items that you’ll ever have the pleasure of performing. A stunning opening to any program.

Just imagine: The magician removes his black leather wallet from his pocket. Apart from the wallet his hands are empty “Before I left home this evening”, he says, “I took one card from a pack and I placed it here in the wallet.” He flips open the wallet and shows that there is one card, and one card only inside the wallet. “I want someone to assist by just naming any card; any one of the 53 cards in the pack.” Any spectator is invited to call out the name of any card.

“Wouldn’t it be a strange coincidence”, says magician, “if the card I’ve placed in the wallet happened to be that card. For years I’ve been saying, – ‘Some day, someone’s going to call out the 4 of Clubs’ (whatever card was called), ‘and I’m going to have a bloody miracle* … no-one ever has done, until tonight, but isn’t it a really strange coincidence that the card in the wallet is the 4 of Clubs!”

Immediately the card is turned around and shown…it is the 4 of Clubs. The wallet is shown to be otherwise completely empty. There are no ‘ifs and ands’, No forces, No limiting the selection of the card in any way. The spectator can choose any card in the pack including the Joker, and that is the card which you hold! The wallet is seen to contain only the one card and nothing else. Can you imagine a more compelling opening to any performance? .One which must stamp you as a real magician.

Is it a gag? – the audience may at first wonder. Any doubt is immediately dispelled when you. show that indeed the card you are holding in your bands is the card which was so freely thought-of. A trick that borders so much on the impossible as to be well-nigh unbelievable…No stooges, No confederates…you can get a well-known person in the audience to call out the name of any card, change his mind if he wishes, and that is the card which you are holding!

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