This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2020
Bland’s Card Vase. Flein: Rüdiger Deutsch, ca. 2000. Five cards are chosen, and the corner from one is torn away. Now four cards – which do not match the selections – appear on a bouquet resting in a handsome metal vase. A fifth, at the top, matches, but is missing its corner. At the performer’s command, four cards visibly change to those chosen, and the missing corner of the uppermost card visibly restores itself. Complex spring-loaded mechanism of brass, controlled with a piston rising from the table. Includes decorated wooden base with triggering mechanism. Height (including flowers) 22”. The only example made by Deustch, modeled on a version sold by noted London magic dealer Joseph Bland, circa 1880.