Stuff: A Collection Of Original Magic by Eric Mason

Stuff is a beautifully designed and produced book (now available as ebook) of top quality magic and contains detailed descriptions of several marketed props and routines. These include the Beta Wallet, the Breese-Mason Wallet, Cummupence, the Silver Retriever, the Golden Retriever and Pandora. Eric Mason was not only a brilliant inventor and magician; he was a creative and talented illustrator. You will find several examples of Mason's skill as illustrator in this ebook.

Eric Mason was a highly talented and exceptionally creative magician and illustrator. He was the Art Editor of Pabular magazine and illustrated countless books. He released many commercial magic effects including the Beta Wallet, the Breese-Mason Wallet, Cummupence, the Silver Retriever and the Golden Retriever and many of these effects are described in this ebook.

Eric used to share the spotlight with Fred Robinson at the Marlborough Arms public house near the Magic Circle on Monday evenings. There the alternative Magic Circle met and Eric was always ready to perform a seemingly impromptu miracle; seemingly impromptu because his pockets were always so jammed full of props that David Britland once described Eric as, 'Rattling with magic as he walked'.

He was a great sleight of hand performer and was so adept with coin sleights that he could back-clip an old English penny and hold a half dollar coin in the palm of the same hand. He used to throw the half dollar up in the air and as it landed back on his palm he would back-clip it and simultaneously release and display the penny concealed between the back of his fingers. As far a spectator could see, Eric held a half dollar in his open hand tossed it up in the air and by the time it landed back in his hand it had changed into a penny.

Early in his career, Eric and his wife Eileen lived in a caravan in Cornwall for several years where Eric spent his time designing, painting and illustrating. Unusually, many of his paintings were published in miniature form on matchbox covers.

1st edition 1989; 170 pages.

Table of Contents

1. Contents
2. Preface to Second Edition
3. Introduction by Fred Robinson
4. Introduction by Barrie Richardson
5. Introduction by Gordon Bruce
6. Forword
7. Orringinal
8. Framed
9. Note in Cigarette
10. Kapala
11. Ashram
12. Desiderata
13. Overture
14. Caboodle
15. Eca Tuoba Ecaf
16. Ubique Sed Non
17. A Birthday Card
18. The Wimbledon Aces
19. Acemblage
20. Put and Take
21. Spread Eagled
22. My Card - Your Card - Anybody's Card
23. Topsyturvy
24. One Million To One
25. Banditry
26. Anything For A Change
27. The One Handed Fiddler
28. Classical Bit
29. The Problem Is
30. Beauideal
31. The Married Lady
32. Billett-Doux
33. Brainwave
34. The Mason Spread
35. Arise Comrades
36. The Pit-A-Patter of a Tiny Feat
37. Fred Trick The Great
38. Sock It And See
39. Uriker
40. Amason
41. Make A Note Of It
42. Watch
43. For A Borrowed Note
44. Impromptu Coins Across
45. Twenty To One
46. Snap Backclip Throw
47. The Coin In A Bottle
48. A Pound With A Bottle
49. A Peep Into A Bottle
50. Come In Jimmy Herbert
51. One Green Bottle
52. Cumuppence
53. Moniker
54. Papier
55. On Reflection
56. N.C.R.
57. Tactoscophy
58. Kineto
59. Magnifique
60. The Cuffs
61. The Silver & Golden Retrievers
62. Pandora
63. Reviews
64. Collarboon
65. Nefertiti
66. Mental Magic Square
67. Card In Cigarette Pack
68. Pop
69. Matchless
70. Mason Colour Improvement to the Monahan Paddle
71. Eric Mason Wallet
72. Violistik

word count: 50564 which is equivalent to 202 standard pages of text