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Vernon, Dai (David Frederick Wingfield Verner). Dai Vernon’s Stars of Magic Wand. Circa 1940. Hardwood wand with bone white tips, owned and used by Dai Vernon, and clearly pictured in the photographs of Vernon in Stars of Magic, V6 N1 in his explanation of the Ring on Wand effect. Length 15 ½”. With a LOA signed by Vernon’s son, Derek. Vernon’s contributions to Stars of Magic are among the most studied routines in the modern canon of magic tricks. This wand was used by The Professor in his explanation of one of the few non-card and non-coin routines in the series which has been adapted, altered, and refined over the course of the years into a close-up neoclassic.