Professor Heller's Magic Trick Cards, c. 1870s, Extremely Rare universal glass flask The bowl with wider incised

The bowl with wider incised band near the lip measures 7 1/8" across at widest x 3 7/8" tall

From a second batch of drawings by the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929-2015)

The world of Japanese Netsuke is incredibly complex (and incredible

5 1/8" long x 3 7/8" deep x 2 1/4" tall

a sweet thing with a great silhouette

Professor Heller's Magic Trick Cards, c. 1870s, Extremely Rare universal glass flask The bowl with wider incisedYou know how much I love antique square corner no indices playing cards, so you can imagine how excited I was to find these antique magic trick cards! Even cooler to learn about the fascinating life of "Professor" Robert Heller (born William Henry Palmer; 18261878) the English magician, mentalist and musician who devised these (more about him below) and to find no other sets of these trick cards anywhere out there, at least that I can see. When