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To our walk in clients, please note that we will be closed on Monday May 26th in observance of Memorial Day.
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Hello friends,
Since I had several short lists posted on This blog & on our Forum & a mass email just went out and a few things had already sold. I thought it best to post every thing here all in one list and edit is as items got sold out. So I am sorry for making you all look all over the place.
I am leaving the book list where it is. This is just props. By Monday all the old posts, will be gone.
Hello friends,
Over the past 35 years, we’ve managed to collect a ton of stuff. I just finishing cataloging the bulk of the one of a kind things we had kicking around. We’ve priced them fairly. So it’s like going to a magic auction but you don’t have to bid. Some real bargains are here. Some scarce things & some real nice collectibles too. These will be sold on a first come first served basis. And are exempt from any other sales of promos. Please give us a call toll free at 1-866-41-Ronjo (international call 1-631-928-1506) if you are interested in any of these items. We can take a phone order with American Express, Visa, Master Card or Discover or we can accept PayPal or check or money order. Prices do not include shipping. Happy hunting!
BLAZING CIGARETTE BOX Dave Powell $30.00 N
At anytime in the magician’s act he removes a pack of cigarettes from his pocket. He opens the box and flames flow from the top of the box! He carefully blows out the flames and removes a cigarette from the pack. NOT FOR SALE TO MINORS!
BOTTLE PRODUCTION GIMMICK $1.50 N
Produce a Bottle! Remove a bunch of silks from your pocket, or produce them from your favorite production item. Gather these silks together, and from between the folds of the silks you magically PRODUCE the bottle! You use any bottle, and the gimmick makes it easy. This is a great gimmick for performing on stage or parlor. Silks not included.
CANE TORCH FOR APPEARING CANE Jan’s Magical $10.00 U
A flaming metal torch visibly changes into a metal cane! Not Included - Metal Appearing Cane. These are original Jan’s Magical. Highest Quality! Needs lighter fluid to work. Make sure wick is saturated but not dripping. The cane itself extinguishes the flame. Nut & bolt required to attach to most canes.
GROWING CARD $5.00 U
Fan of regular sized cards is shown, instantly becomes a fan of Jumbo Cards (or vice versa). No instruction included. None needed. We have 3 of these.
CLOTH COMEDY ROSE BOUQUET SADIK $2.00 U
Three roses wilt at once.
CORK THRU CARD $5.00 U
You show a playing card, a wine cork and a plastic frame. The cork is placed in a hole in the center of the frame. Then the playing card (or you can substitute a business card) is pushed into a slot in the side of the frame, slicing right through the cork! Then you pull the cork from the hole, right through the card! Everything is examined and found to be intact.
ILL TEACH YOU ALL $10.00 N
Teach ‘em a trick. Have a freely card selected. No one sees it yet, not even the person who picked it. They hide it. Verbally reveal the selected card and then show the audience all the cards in the deck are the same card. Say magic is easy once you know how. When the selected card is finally looked at you are wrong! They picked the one card in the deck that is not the same! Revel later that you knew all along by having a duplicate in an envelope finally opened. This is a fun force deck! We have 2 of these.
Neck Tie Magician’s Airbrushed (Cards). $6.00 N
Not a trick, thin 80’s style red necktie airbrushed with card pips.
Neck Tie Magician’s Airbrushed (dove) $8.00 N
Not a trick, thin black necktie airbrushed with a flying dove & starbursts.
SUN SPOTS $6.00 N
Great lead into a sponge ball routine! Unscrew the cap and squeeze the red “liquid” into your empty fist. You can see it! Open your hand and you have made your first sponge ball appear. Sponge balls not supplied.
BLOTS & NUT $10.00 vintage U
We are not sure of the name of this one. A piece of hardware has two threaded ends. One is large than the other. The nut is un screwed from the small end and the screwed onto the wide thread. All may be examined. No instructions. A simple switch is needed if you want it examined. Very very clever method.
DEVIL’S LADDER TANNENS $20.00 vintage N
Two cords tied between two brass rods to form a “ladder” the knots are cut away, yet the ladder is still together.
CAKE IN HAT STERLING $0.50 Vintage
Instructions for a routine to make a real cake appear in a borrowed hat. Good stuff.
CARD CASE $20.00 Vintage
Wooden card changing box. No instructions, non needed. Make a card appear disappear, change, multiply, torn & restored card, etc.
CANE FLOWERS FAMI $80.00 N
Multicolored flower tree for metal vanishing cane. The best quality flowers money can buy.
GEMS A PACKET MYSTERY BY WALT MADDISON EMERSON & WEST $2.00 N
Classic Packet trick from the Emerson & West archives.
HAND REELS $8.00 U
Brass utility reel, no instructions.
Harlequin Cigarette Holder JANS MAGICAL $5.00 Vintage
A lit cigarette is in the holder, remove it and throw it on the floor, it appears back in the holder again and again. No instructions. (when you suck in on the tube, the cigarette goes inside, when you exhale, it pops out of the tube.
Knife Of The Ninja Tenyo $30.00 Vintage
Opened but all original packaging included. A bill is place in a clip and a knife is pushed through the center. You can see it. Tear the bill across the knife, no holes. Everything can be examined.
METOMORPHO CARDS 10.00 Vintage
We are not really sure of the real name of this item. I’ve seen an idea similar to this one by Steve Dushek though this seems to be much older. A blue wood tray and a red wood tray each have a jumbo card in it. Card magically change places even though the center portion is always visible. Good for parlor but not for close up. Nice collectable. Could use NEW jumbo cards, some minor work involved to get them like new. The cards are so old, they are yellowing.
MIDAS MACHINE TENYO $30.00 Vintage
Original instructions supplied, original packaging lost. A blank sheet of paper is placed into the printer. As it emerges, the it visibly becomes a $10.00 bill (old style $10.00)
MULT MINI CANDLES (set) $20.00 N
Start with one lit candle in each hand. They multiply to a total of eight between your fingers.
MULTIPLING CANDLES SAM DALAL $20.00 U
One large lit candle becomes two then three & then four. No instructions, none needed. Uses light fluid 18 years + only Could use some new paint.
MULTIPLING COOKIES BRUCE NARTYN BOSTON MAN $10.00 N
These are getting old. The rubber white filling on the cookie is yellowing. A little paint will take care of it. One cookie multiplies to 2, 3 & then 4. (3 cookies plus shell).
MULTIPLING PIPE $10.00 U
One lit pipe becomes two then three & then four. No instructions, none needed. Uses a cigarette 19 years + only
CARD SWORD P & L $450.00 Vintage
Three cards are selected and returned to the deck. Magician tosses the deck into the air. Waving the sword amongst the falling cards, all 3 become impaled on the blade. Heavy duty chrome plating Designed for a lifetime of performances. Needs new elastic to be threaded (easy & cheap project). Instructions supplied.
CHANGE PURSE ABOTTS $40.00 Vintage
Originally supplied with the Abbots Mutilated Parasol, this burgundy velvet bag has black wooden handles and opens and looks more like a purse than a traditional change bag. Secret compartment for switches, changes, vanishes or appearances.
CHINESE FLAME CLOCK Milson Worth $500.00 vintage
No instructions. Its easy to do. Patter about the candle telling time by burning for 24 hours & gauge the time of day between where it burn in the box with three doors. Take two knives and cut through the middle. Open the 3 front doors. The center portion of the candle is gone. Open a door in the back & you can push your hand through the space where the candle was. Close the doors, remove the blades and reopen the doors, the candle is back in one piece. Remove the candle.
DO ALL CARD BOX VIENNA Magic vintage $50.00
Well, we are not sure of the actual name of this item as the instructions were lost. This was one of the first “nice” pieces ever sold in the Ronjo shop. Its still here sine 1974! That’s because no one ever took the time to really show what it did. There were lots of instructions but my memory has faded on what it really did. It’s a well crafter wooden box that has a sliding top door and house a deck of cards (these acres are imported Piantex) I think they are called. It has a recessed bottom & wooden slates & wedges. Bassicaly you could force one or more selections by dropping the loaded base onto the top of the deck after the selection/s are replaced to the top. Or you could remove the lid and the wedge will hide one or more cards under the lid, thus changing the top of the deck. The empty box could show a card/s has appeared in the box. Cards could change or multiply, go from face up to face down. I did make psudo instructions for what I could remember about it. This thing was a couple of hundred in its day!
FLAMING JAP BOX $70.00 vintage
Needs new flint. Metal four wall box has not top & no bottom. It is seem empty. A flame appears roaring from the box, when the flame goes out, you produce a long silks streamer (not supplied) uses lighter fluid 18+ only. No instructions. Manufacturer unknown. No instructions, none needed.
FOUR PHAROHS $400.00 vintage
Electronic wizardry from the early 80’s. Four ceramic pharaohs each of a different color are in a wooden case. You leave the room while the spectator freely selects one mummy and places it on the altar of the afterlife and seals it in the tomb by covering it with the wooden lid. When you come back into the room, talk about Pharaoh’s obsession with the after life. Remove another wooden cover from the altar decorated in Egyptian motif to display a clear crystal. And believe the Pharaoh could communicate with you to tell you who he is. Slowly the crystal lights up in the color of the Pharaoh selected. (either red, yellow, blue or green). You can only speak to the spirit for a short time and the light starts to fade away. No one else can make the crystal light up at all.
HAND GAG RAG (blank) $7.00 N
Get a kid from the audience to help with your next effect. Explain that before he helps, you must be sure that his hands are clean. So, you hand him a large towel to wipe his hands. And, when he gives it back to you, it is totally covered with Big Black Hand Prints! His hands really must have been dirty! The towel is shown on both sides before handing it to the youngster. And, of course, it can be used over and over. These towels are blank. You have to mess them up your self. With lipstick prints, blood stains from you arm chopper, black hand prints. Use theatrical make up to dirty it up. We have 5 of these.
OCCULT BOARD TENYO T-66 1974 $30.00
This is the original all white board with knobs for the doors. Needs a white china marker. No instructions, no box.
This is a mini Mental Epic Slate! The Mentalist is able to demonstrate his super extra sensory powers by reading minds. Each of three separate mental predictions are revealed and shown to be correct. The spectator picks a randomly selected card out of the deck, chooses any number that pops into his or her head, and selects any letter of the alphabet. The magician writes predictions on the unique slate and covers them up until the astounding finale. One-by-one the covers are removed and the spectator’s card, number, and letter are revealed with only one explanation…it’s a MIRACLE.
Silk Frame & Silk Cabby Milson & Worth $400.00 vintage
A rare find indeed. Complete Set Fantastic Frame and Silk Vanishing Cabby Show a tall Frame with a rod going through the center, close the door. Push 3 Silks into it from holes in the side of the small Silk Cabby. Open both the front and back doors on the Silk Cabby, the silks have VANISHED! The door of the frame is now opened to display the three silks TIED on the rod! No instructions, we can tell you how to use it if you can’t figure it out on your own. Its pretty simple. Good condition.
Sutekina Tenyo T-32 $75.00 vintage
Original instructions included (package is not). Produced from 1960-1975
The magician displays a plastic frame along with a piece of plexi-glass. Both may be examined by a member of the audience. The plexi-glass piece is slid into the frame and a ribbon is threaded through it and the frame. Somehow the magician freely pulls the plexi-glass piece up and out of the frame, leaving just the ribbon!
Top Hat $250.00 vintage
This is an antique collapsible Top Hat in great condition. It shows some wear but that this just adds to the charm. All in all more like new than something maybe 80-100 years old. Markings inside Hatters Since 1873 Young’s registered New York Opera Superbsa
VANISIHING CANE TO FLOWERS RUSS WALSH $75.00 vintage
Special Walsh cane turns into tow muliti color five flower boquets. Cane great condition, flowers not too bad. Original instructions included. Loading tubes are missing but not a big deal. They are just hollow tubes, one was metal one was plastic. Screw post is missing, this was a screw embedded into a dowel. Shouldn’t be too hard to rig something.
CHANGE BAG $50.00 U
This is an antique change bag. Soft black velvet exterior. Deep orange satin inside. Thin black metal “rotating” handle.
Hoop hole is thin metal. Very good condition. No instructions.
NEST OF BOXES BRASS Viking magic $20.00 U
A signed coin is vanished & you pull out a round brass snap case from your pocket. The open it, Inside and other case! Inside that one is one more case! Inside that one is the coin. The fourth inner case is missing. It used to be meant for a quarter in a nest of four, now you can use it for a half dollar in a nest of three, Still powerful magic. Or use a quarter still if you like.
PASSE PASEE HAT Mike Shelley MAGICAL MYSTERIES $5.00 N
A ball is placed under a mini plastic top hat (about the size of a thimble) and covered yellow screen. Nothing under the other mini hat. The empty hat is covered with a blue screen. Make a magical gesture and the ball travels to the other hat! Back & forth the go, over and over. Finally the screens are removed & the hats change color! One is red, the other is white! We have 2 of these.
PICKLE PAN $25.00 U
Smaller than a Dove Pan, bigger than a Chick Pan. Nice sized load! Flour, bubbles, pickle powder and a popped balloon are put into the bottom of this pan. The spectator stirs the brew. A piece of Flash paper is added to the ingredients (if you choose), set afire and the lid is put on the top. When the lid is lifted, there’s a pan full of bubble gum. If you’d rather crack an egg (blown) and make a baby chicken you can, the lid has airholes!
REAPPEARING WATCHES $10.00 U
The apparatus supplied comprises of a set of 6 pocket watches, that can be used for production or a multiplication effect. The set of Watches nest and lock, permitting you to handle the set as a single watch, and easily produce (or multiply) the other watches one at a time. As a production item, every performer will have his individual preference for performing this. You could produce a watch from any production prop, display it as a single watch, then multiply it one at a time to six watches. Or you could produce the first watch apparently from thin air, and then cause the watches to multiply, displaying them between your fingers as in the multiplying ball effect.
Motorized Reel - John Kennedy $40.00 U
Needs re-spooling, needs new mortified 9 vlt battery You will make silk handkerchiefs, streamers, and other objects fly around the room like magic! Power Reel pulls in 80 feet (24 meters) of thread! Built to last with a powder coated aluminum body and an industrial quality micro motor, just palm the Power Reel in your hand and you’re ready to go.
SAND FRAME Tricks Company $30.00 U
This is a rare piece! Glass & wood. Well made, no instructions. None needed. Ask a spectator to choose a card from the deck, remember it, and return it to the pack. Present the sand frame, then cover it with a silk. Ask the spectator to concentrate on their selected card for a moment, then uncover the frame. The face of their card is now presented inside the frame! A perfect routine for the audience; even though you know the secret, the spectator can be credited for the magic!
Square Circle w/Ghost Tube $10.00 U
The magician shows a square box with a window in front and a coloured cylinder which fits in the box. When the tube is in the box, it can be seen through the window which normally has a grille or patterned lattice on it. She starts by lifting both items onto a table which is raised off the ground (no trap doors) and then shows them empty both separately and together by lifting them off the table in turn, and looking right through the tube/box at the audience, putting her arm through and moving it around etc. When the tube is lifted out of the box, the black empty interior of the box can be seen through the grille. When the box is lifted off the tube, nothing can be seen hidden round the tube. Yet, when the tube is placed inside the box, she reaches in and produces all manner of items. Ghost tube can be used to produced more items away from the box. Ghost tube has a dent. Exterior box needs to be nailed back in place. Workable as is but could be finer with some TLC.
TAKE MY CARD PLEASE $2.00 N
5 cards are shown to be different and are mixed up. One card is freely selected. It matches the Jumbo Card you had face down on the table the whole time.
COIN KONG (Steve Dushek) $10.00 U
A Half Dollar is placed into a Bull Dog Clip. It is seen sticking out halfway. When released, it changes into a Brass Washer. Needs new elastic strung, easy to do.
COIN PENETRATION, A - Peter Kane $6.00 N
An overlooked product from the early 1970s. A brilliant visual. An empty shot glass is placed mouth up onto of a book and a larger glass is inverted over the shot glass. Pick up a penny from the table and toss it towards the glass. It invisible travels but appears visually making a clink into the glass. Set the book on the table, spectator may remove coin. Coin, glasses & book not supplied. Use borrowed items. Nifty gimmick does all the work. No threads!
COLOR CHANGING SPRING FLOWER $1.00 N
Single Mylar Spring Flower is plucked from bouqet of Spring Flowers (sold separate). Transfer flower from one hand to the other and it changes color. Cool item. Has harness to hold flower shut until “plucked” from boquet.
DANCING HANK RALPH ADAMS $1.00 N
Single sheet instructions for classic illusion. Back stage assistants needed. This is the old school way!
DECK DROPPER Dave Powell $4.00 N
Handy utility for card fan production under the magicians jacket. Special clip pins on under coat.
DREAM ROPE – KOVARI $20.00 U
6 foot long “Stiff Rope” type effect. Rope is wrapped around your wrist. As it unwinds, it goes vertical. 3 revolutions as it unwraps, then dangle the rest below (no instructions) you don’t really need them.
EDWINS MAGIC ARTS STAY STEADY PACK EZZE STAND $6.00 N
Packs flat, all black steel frame. Will hold a jumbo deck vertical, or single card/s with a magnet comes with sticky tack. Stand up a prediction, envelope, jumbo coin, etc. An Invaluable tool for those who need it.
ENCHANTED CIGARETTE TANNENS $15.00 N
Two EMPTY brass tubes of different lengths are shown. A cigarette is placed into the longer tube by the spectator. Thew end caps are placed on. Magically the cigarette jumps from the long tube to the short tube or vice versa.
MISMADE QUEEN $8.00 N
Classic stage illusion performed with a giant card. The middle part of Queen is removed & restored
NUT & BOLTS OPENER $3.00 N
Classic two in the hand one in the pocket routine. Nuts jump from pocket to hand, vanish and become a bolt with nuts threaded to it.
FLASH RIBBON TO SILKS Tannens $20.00 N
One multi colored ribbon (red yellow & blue) visually transforms into three silk hanks. One red, one yellow, one blue.
HUMMING BIRD REEL $42.00 U
Needs new battery, needs to be rethreaded.
Perfect for parlor and stage performers, the Hummingbird Reel is used to make silks, dollar bills, and other lightweight objects fly into your hand from up to 20 feet away! It’s a miniature electronic reel; only 1½ inches long by ½ inch in diameter! Precision machined from brass, the Hummingbird Reel houses an industrial micro motor that is whisper quiet. The thread locks automatically as you pull it out, so there’s no tension until you press the switch to reel it back in.
MILLONAIRE by DR SAWA RABBIT CO LTD $15.00 U
Open the wallet, trapped between two clear dividers is a one hundred dollar bill. Remove the $100.00 bill and it visually becomes 10 $10.00 bills. Complete with play money. You may use real money.
MINI CAP FLASH POT $5.00 U
Mini wooden Flash Pot. Works ignites with a bang from a single cap from a roll of paper caps. Spring button releases cap trap, ignites Flash Cotton which in turn ignites a small amount of Flash Powder. Perfect for a small illusion like a square circle
MINI CUPS & BALLS $15.00 U
Small aluminum “shot glasses” with beaded rim. Stacks perfectly. These are old cups 1940’s? No balls, no instructions
NESTING WALLETS TRICKMASTER $8.00 N
Signed coin vanishes and reappears wrapped in a cloth inside three consecutively smaller sealed leather pouches. Real leather envelopes! No slide method.
RUBBER COIN $5.00 N
A half dollar and a rubber ball changes places from hand to hand several times. Finally the ball & coin are squashed together revealing one large Rubber Half Dollar.
SPECTUBULAR Tom Jorgenson $25.00 N
This versatile Production Sheet can produce an amazing amount of items. The Magician presents this seemingly flat sheet closes the tube and begins to pull out silks, stuffed toys, just about anything he/she can think of!!
SPRING SAUSAGE $5.00 U
A link of brown sausages appears out of thin air. Cloth covered spring links, wedge into a holder 2” tall.
TRAFFIC LIGHT Paul Diamond $7.00 N
Brass chip changes from red to yellow to green. Locking mechanism. We have two.
VANISHING CANDLE RED Fantasio $15.00 U
These are early models. They didn’t have the loop to attach a silk back then. Uses lighter fluid 18 year + only. No instructions supplied. We have two of these.
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Hello friends,
We’ll we’ve got a great summer planned here at Ronjo.
The success of the Will Houstoun lecture made it possible for us to book some more great performers.
We’ve got
Simon Lovell - Thursday June 12th at 7:00 PM
Rick Maue - Wednesday July 16th at 7:00 PM
Patrick G. Redford - Monday August 11th 6:30 PM
All tickets are $25.00 each. Please, please, please, help us to serve you properly and buy your tickets in advance. This is the ONLY way we can be sure we’ll cover our expenses! So we can continue to bring these great talents to you! Seating is limited and all seats are first paid, first choice. So come on down & sign up!
Go to the Magic Events section of the Ronjo Forum for details on each of their lectures. http://www.ronjo.com/discuss/
Also don’t forget Magic Camp from July 21st - July 25th. 10 AM - 12 Noon secondary session from 1:00PM - 3:00 PM if the first group is filled up. Multiple instructors & guest appearances! All guests receive a snack & a drink each day. Camp sessions also includes a magic kit valued at $65.00. The fee is only $395.00 for the week.
Until next time…..
Thanks for reading!
Pete
Hello friends, New from Eric Decamps
Hi Everyone!
I just wanted you all to know that Bob Fitch and I are the guest hosts on this coming week’s iTricks Podcast Magic Week in Review (May 11, 2008). MWiR is the weekly magic podcast from the iTricks.com team (Andrew Mayne and Justin Robert Young). Along with Meir Yedid’s MagicTimes, iTricks/MWiR is a great way to get up to the minute news on the Magic Industry.
The highlights of topics discussed are:
• Penn Jillette on the backstage atmosphere of Dancing with the Stars
• London Press and Derren Brown’s Evening Of Wonders
• Celebracadabra’s Chris Martin Wants You To Ask Some Questions
• Who invented iPhone Viral Marketing?
• Eric DeCamps Pure Magic – A Performance of Contemporary Conjuring’s Opening Night
• Eric DeCamps guest speaker at the World Science Festival 2008
• Bob Fitch at the Magic Castle, Bob Fitch Performance Workshops for Magicians and a new production of ANNIE
• Substitute teacher gets dismissed for “wizardry”!
You can either listen to the stream version online or subscribe (its free) via iTunes. The latest edition of MWiR will be ready for download or listening on Monday May 11, 2008 at iTricks.com or from the iTunes store.
Best,
Eric DeCamps