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Bossie Cow

Postby Bob Farmer » July 1st, 2021, 8:45 am

The Ireland Magic Company marketed a trick by Carlton King entitled, "Bossie Cow Milk Trick."

An empty glass magically fills with milk. The milk is poured into a tube open at both ends but the milk does not run out the bottom. Covered with the tube, the glass of milk vanishes.

I have some ideas on how this all works but anyone has the original instructions, I'd love to see them.

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby JFox » July 14th, 2021, 10:56 am

Bob:

I had the pleasure of playing with the original "Bossy Cow" prop, just a few weeks ago.

Check out the August 1979 issue of GENII: "Milk-O" article by Ted Colteaux (page 542)......There is a sketch of "Bossy" and her gaffs...and a brief description of how she is utilized.

Rumor has it --"Bossy" herself - will be for sale on a certain dealer's table - at Bill Smith's August 2021, Las Vegas "Magic Collector Expo - 2021"

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby Bob Farmer » July 14th, 2021, 11:11 am

That's great--thank you!

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby Spellbinder » October 26th, 2021, 8:46 am

Jim Gerrish revisited U.F. Grant's "Cow and Milk Trick" from 1955 to add some new touches, like the vanishing cow and transformation into a toy plastic cow, etc. If you are still doing the old version of the trick, you might want to check out Jim's improvements:

https://www.magicnook.com/hardboard/HDDTB2-04.htm

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby MagicbyAlfred » October 26th, 2021, 9:49 am

"Knock knock."

"Who's there?"

"Impatient Cow."

"Impatient c..."

"MOO!"

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby Richard Kaufman » October 26th, 2021, 11:38 am

I actually think the joke is about the "interrupting cow."
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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby MagicbyAlfred » October 26th, 2021, 7:05 pm

Richard Kaufman wrote:I actually think the joke is about the "interrupting cow."


Good point, interrupting cow, indeed -- but motivated by her impatience.

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby Edward Pungot » October 26th, 2021, 8:23 pm

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby PressureFan » December 4th, 2021, 11:45 pm

You can see Bossy Cow performed here at 01:10
https://archive.org/details/magic1952cl ... wn1952.mpg
1952 episode of TV series "The Magic Clown"

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby Bob Farmer » December 5th, 2021, 12:52 pm

That is truly one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen. No wonder those the boomer kids created havoc in the 1960s when they'd grown up: that traumatic childhood Magic Clown was all that was needed.

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby Jack Shalom » December 6th, 2021, 11:39 am

I think the Magic Clown was NY children's tv host "Uncle" Fred Scott who I remember from my childhood as host of the Felix the Cat show.

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby Bob Farmer » December 6th, 2021, 4:04 pm

Jack, that should be "Very Scary Uncle Fred."

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby Brad Jeffers » December 6th, 2021, 5:35 pm

Jack Shalom wrote:I think the Magic Clown was NY children's tv host "Uncle" Fred Scott who I remember from my childhood as host of the Felix the Cat show.

The Magic Clown in that episode was Dick DuBois.

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby JFox » December 9th, 2021, 7:57 am

PressureFan: Thanks for posting that video clip of "The Magic Clown"...

Bossie the Cow; Rag Pictures; Bird Cage Production; and a Jumbo Card Rise w/ "turn-around" card....all just great.

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby PressureFan » December 9th, 2021, 11:16 am

Thanks. I was surprised by that card rise. I've never seen it before. The end credits were interesting too; "Magic Equipment by Lou Tannen's Magic Shop. New York."

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby JFox » December 9th, 2021, 1:35 pm

Sure enough, Tannen's 1949 catalog #1 advertises their "Jumbo Card Rise" with 'turn-around' card...for $50.00.

Offhand, I didn't see Ireland's "Bossy Cow" listed in there; but they probably sold it anyway.

I wonder if "the Magic Clown" ever did a follow-up to his "glass of milk vanish"....by using Grant's "Cow Trick" -- reproducing the glass of milk from between two flat plaques, one of which depicted a cow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMoaQdseZZ0

Makes me want to go back 40 years, and do a Kid Show again :-)

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby Edward Pungot » December 9th, 2021, 2:54 pm

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby JFox » December 10th, 2021, 12:33 am

PressureFan:

My research tells me that the "Jumbo Rising Cards - with "turn-around" Card" (ala Tannen's early catalogs and on "The Magic Clown"....

was released in 1948 by "REDHILL" (Fred Rothenberg), aka - "Fred Redhill", of Inwood, NY..........Retail = $50.00.

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Re: Bossie Cow

Postby David Nethery » December 13th, 2021, 8:46 am

On the Facebook group Magic Collector's Corner , Mitch Goodkin posted four photos of the Bossie Cow apparatus. It's a private group, not public, so I can't link to the photos from here, but if you join the group (administered by David Sandy and Lance Rich) you can view the photos. They were posted on May 11 , 2021.


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