Salon de Magie: The Klosterman Collection Part I

Jumbo Neyhart Rising Cards. Los Angeles: A.P. Neyheart, ca. 1934. Any card called for rises from a giant pack isolated in a modernistic black houlette resting atop the magician’s table. Elaborate mechanism built in to houlette accompanied by external winder and selection device to choose which card will rise. Height of houlette 8 ¼". Includes original jumbo pack (with several tabs lacking on individual cards), card selector rubbed; not reliably functional. Includes instructions signed by the maker. See Salon de Magie, page 270. Neyhart’s any-card-called-for card rise was offered to the fraternity in the 1930s, but with smaller cards. This is the only known example of the effect with a jumbo pack, and may have been the prototype used to develop the standard model. A complete description of the routine, by John McKinven, with instructions, was published in the August, 1993 issue of Magicol, the journal of the Magic Collectors’ Association. A letter from McKinven documenting his work on the houlette accompanies the prop.