Salon de Magie: The Klosterman Collection Part I

Nelson’s Prediction Chest. Columbus: Nelson Enterprises, ca. 1945. Brass-bound humpbacked chest in which a prediction of future events is locked. During the magician’s performance, the chest is unlocked by a member of the audience who removes a brass tube from inside. It contains the prediction which is read aloud and proven to be accurate. 7 ? x 14 x 9 ½". With two keys and brass pellet, the latter not available in other Nelson chests. Said to be one of twelve chests of this size made for and sold by Nelson. Said to be the chest used by John Booth to predict a newspaper headline, as reported by the St. Louis Star-Times and the Globe Democrat and later published in the July, 1946 issue of The Linking Ring.