Exchange Case by Milson-Worth

This may look like  a simple mini drawer box, but you would be wrong.  This is truly amazing precision quality.  The mechanism works perfectly and the inside of the draw is actually a metal insert which make the tolerances seem impossible and also means the gimmick it is pretty much undetectable.

Though I’ve seen a lot of neat and clever Mini Drawer Boxes, I’ve never seen one quite as unassuming but still amazing as this bad boy.  I shouldn’t have been surprised, after it is a Milson-Worth item.  Milson-Worth has always created some of the most amazing parlor and close-up items available.

The problem with a utility device like this that is so well made you want to create a routine worthy of the prop. Below I have included my routine which I tried to really maximize to do justice to the work put into this beauty.  The big stumbling point for me was coming up with a card effect that has some meat and was a little more than just producing or vanishing a deck of cards.  I’m pretty happy with my final routine which hopefully will show up as a video in the Porcupine soon.

As a side note can we please stop using “MW” to mean “Magic Wagon”, as far as I’m concerned there is only one MW and it has always been Milson-Worth 🙂

Effect: It’s new, it’s one of a kind, and it’s the absolute ultimate in beauty and precision – the Milson-Worth Exchange Case. Designed and manufactured exclusively by Milson-Worth, the Exchange Case is exquisitely fashioned from select black walnut with a high gloss, natural wood finish.

A truly indispensable accessory for the serious close-up performer, the Exchange Case holds a full deck of poker sized cards or a generous quantity of coins which can be made to appear, vanish or be exchanged for one or more different cards or coins. No preparation is required, and the amazing effect may be repeated immediately with professional ease. Perfectly sized for coat pocket or accessory case, the . Milson-Worth Exchange Case is magic at its most elegant.

My Routine: A beautiful black walnut box is displayed and the drawer is opened and removed, revealing a red deck of cards filling the interior.  The deck is removed and the box and drawer are shown clearly empty.  The red deck is spread out on the pad shown to be all different and they are given to the spectator to shuffle.

The walnut box is shown again and this time a single prediction card is placed in the drawer face down.  The spectator is asked to stop at any time and they look at their card.  The spectator can shuffle the deck again and it is placed on the table.  The prediction is now removed and the performer asks the spectator what there card was and the card is turned over and the performer proudly points to a tiny 5H on a card with all 52 cards printed on them.  The audience are not that impressed.  So the prediction is replaced in the box and the performer tries something else.

He takes the red deck and asks the spectator to say stop when he gets to their card.  The performer counts as he deals the cards out but when he gets to 51 cards there are no cards left and they did not see the 5H.  Interesting, the performer says let’s take a look at those 52 cards again in the box.  The drawer is opened and instead of the 52 on 1 card there is now a full deck of blue backed cards.

The cards are removed and spread face up – there is one red backed card face down in the spread.  The spread is turned over and there in the middle of 51 blue backed cards is the missing 5H.

Another miracle in the Porcupine has come to an end 🙂

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