This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/16/2018
The Coffee Trick (Coffee Berries Changed to Hot Coffee, White Beans to Sugar, and Bran to Hot Milk). London: Hamley’s, ca. 1880s. Including two handsome large cylindrical brass vases and a small tin bran vase, the larger vases outfitted with spring-loaded bayonet-catches facilitating the several transformations in the routine, a design consistent with the early English design described by Hoffmann (Modern Magic [1876], pp. 388—91). Larger vases 19” tall, bran vase 6” tall. Minor dents and tarnish, but good overall.