The Genii Forum

A friend of mine is trying to find out who or what Company made a Stamp Album he has. If you have a moment, here is a video of him performing the effect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R49swn0o ... e=youtu.be My friend would like to know if this particular Stamp Album was a marketed item and if so, when was it originally released and by whom? Thank you for you time.

Best Magical Regards,

Mark Williams

Wow, haven't thought about this trick in years. I learned it from the Mark Wilson Course in Magic and it was part of my act as a teen. This might just be a nicely made one-off instead of a dealer item.

That's exactly what i said. I identified the age of the book for him. I seem to think that every dealer made version of this effect that i have come across, has been constructed from a soft back album, and that the usually have a pocket in the book to house the stamps.

It's obviously a one-off home made item. No dealer in his right mind would make a flick book with a hard cover, nor would that dealer spend his time sticking in the stamps.

Quentin, I have in fact seen stamp albums sold by dealers of long ago, in a hard cover, with real stamps stuck to the pages. You opened the cover to get it out of the way and then flipped the pages.

I stand corrected.

Many of the older ones I speak of have black paper in them, which is highly acid-ridden, and crumbles to the touch at this late date. That's why, most likely, there are so few around.