Gravatt, Glenn: Thayer Quality Magic Catalog Instruction Sheets Vol. 2
©1979 Glenn Gravatt, Lloyd E. Jones, Magic Limited, CA
Hardcover, w/dj, 6x9", 324 pages
©1993 Lee Jacobs Productions, OH
ISBN: 0-91526-28-8
Thayer Quality Magic Catalog Instruction Sheets
Complete 4 Volume Set, Compiled By Glenn Gravatt
Published by Magic Limited, Lloyd E. Jones, Oakland, CA
6.00" x 9.00" x 1.25" 8vo Hardbound in cloth with original pictorial dust jackets 1282pp
Illustrated with line drawings and a few photographs
Glenn Gravatt had the good fortune to acquire a complete set of Thayer instruction sheets designed to accompany their magic apparatus
Gravatt's is believed to be the only collection of Thayer secrets in existence
Comments: Compiled by Glenn Gravatt, edited by Theron Fox & Barbara Walker. Instruction sheets for Thayer Quality Magic products. Second in a series of four.
Contents (from Lee Jacobs edition book ToC):
1 Tricks With Balls
1 Multiplying Billiard Balls
4 Unique Rainbow Billiard Ball Trick
7 Bingo Billiard Ball Vanish
8 Ball and Handkerchief
9 Diminishing Billiard Ball
10 Peerless Billiard Ball Stand
11 Reyaht's Eccentric Tube
16 Floating Ball
18 Tricks With Birds, Etc.
18 Chafing Dish
19 Magical Shot and Enchanted Cage
20 Birds From Nowhere
22 Hong Kong Duck Vanish
24 Fishing Trick
25 Welsh Rarebit Pan
27 Tricks With Cards
27 Siril Card Target
28 Card Tower
29 Card and Coin Easel
30 Rising Cards
32 Do Kolta's Rising Cards
33 Presto Rising Cards
36 Cards Through the Air
37 Rising Cards Mysterious
39 Novel Card Problem
40 Psychic Thought Waves
42 Electric Pack of Cards
43 Wizard's Deck
47 Diminishing Cards
48 Supreme Card Effect
49 Stop Card Trick
50 Card Mystery
52 Card in the Egg
53 Improved Card Sword
54 Velvet Card Banner
55 Mystic Pocket Knife
56 Nickel Card Box
57 Card Box
59 Knock 'Em Dead
61 Cards From the Pocket
62 Mawe's Improved Cards From Pocket
64 Thayer's Changing Card Tray
66 Suits for Divorce
69 Cards Up the Sleeve Finale
71 Tricks With Dice
71 Sliding Die Box
73 Die and Chimney
74 Die Through the Hat
76 Goblin Die
78 Dy-Flyto
79 Passe Passe Jumbo Die
81 Tricks With Eggs
81 Human lien
83 Ring in the Egg
84 Egg and Handkerchief
85 Productive Egg Bag
88 Mysterious Egg Production
90 Japanese Egg Trick (Sterling)
91 Malini Type Egg Bag
93 Escapes
93 Famous Kellar Rope Tie
96 Automatic Handcuffs
97 Acme Rope Release
98 Siberian Transport Chain
100 Thumb Tie
105 Phantom Rope Release
109 20th Century Rope Tie
110 Halter Trick
113 Tricks With Flowers
113 Flowers From the Cone
114 Spring Flower Clips
116 Rose in the Buttonhole
117 Our Latest Flower Growth
119 Triple Changing Flower
119 Florist's Dream
121 Illusions
122 Improved As rah Levitation
126 Aga Or the Floating Lady
130 Sword Box
132 Boxes of Buddha
135 Sawing a Woman in Two
140 New Canvas Box Illusion
142 Executioner's Dream
147 Box Tray and Screen Illusion (Gwynne)
148 Chef's Nightmare (Adams)
150 Beudless Spectator
151 Tricks With Liquids
151 Latest Coffee and Milk Trick
152 Magic Funnel
153 Mephisto's Cornucopia
155 Vanishing Bowl of Water
156 Satan's Control
157 New Hindoo Water Lota
158 Ching Ling Foo Can
159 Bewitched Coffee Cup
160 Water and Silk
161 Flying Glass of Water
163 Wine and Water Trick
170 Tricks With Money
170 Bull of Wool and Silver Boxes
171 Coin Tray
172 Master Coin Tray
173 Crystal Coin Jar
175 Mystic Coin Slide
176 Penny and Dime
177 Mophisto Coin Cup
179 Devil Glass
180 Slender Coin Wand
181 Bill Tube
182 Ne Plus Ultra Coin Trick
184 Flying Coins
185 Brass Plug Box
197 Parlor and Stage Effects
187 Nest of Boxes
190 Dissolving Cane
192 Materialized Wand
194 Candle That Was
195 Cone and Orange
196 Super Excellent Changing Bag
197 Pudding in the Hat
198 Flying Bird Cage
199 Eclipse Vanishing Lamp
200 Boxes of Choy Fong
201 Shower of Candies
187 Parlor and Stage Effects
187 Nest of Boxes
190 Dissolving Cane
192 Materialized Wand
193 Candle That Was
194 Cone and Orange
195 Super Excellent Changing Bag
196 Pudding in the Hat
197 Flying Bird Cage
198 Eclipse Vanishing Lamp
199 Boxes of Choy Fong
200 Shower of Candies
202 Steel Ball Through Glass
203 Hat Load Gimmic
204 Tricks With Rings
204 Excelsior Rod Ball and Ring Trick
205 Slave Bangle
206 Wandering Ring
207 Popular Performer
211 Key and Ring
211 Mystic Ring
213 Coin Ring and Handkerchief
214 Enchanted Ring
216 Russian Rod Ball and Ring
217 Dines and String Trick
218 Tricks With Rods and Pillars
218 Wands of Mah-Hoe
221 Mystery Sticks of Peng Yeng
223 Devil's Pillar
224 Cord Pillars
225 Devil in the Deck
226 New Mystic Sticks
228 Tricks With Silks
228 Magic Web
231 Herpont Handkerchief
233 Kova-Wah-Wah (Serpent of India)
236 Color Find Color
238 Homing Handkerchief
243 Mysterious Handkerchief Box
244 Aurora Borealis
245 Perfection Flag Trick
247 Hympathetic Handkerchief
249 Devil's Handkerchief
251 Flying Handkerchief and Soup Plate
252 Cundle and Flag
253 Tumbler Pedestal
255 Handkerchief and Decanter
256 Novel Flag Trick
258 Tricks With Slates
258 Original Slate Mystery
260 Gambol of the Spirits
262 New Miracle Slate
266 Midget Spirit Slates
267 Mystic Oracle and Spirit Slates
270 Marvelous Bolted Slates
271 Miracle Slate
275 Spiritualistic and Mental
275 Second Sight Mystery
277 Our New Spirit Verse Books
281 Spirit Bell
282 Dr Q. Spirit Hand
289 Spirit Hand
290 Marvelous Talking Skull
291 Ghostly Raps
294 Perplexo Silent Thought Transmission Act
298 Second Sight Par Excellent
306 Mysterious Addition
307 Cagliostro (Krumgold)
310 Psychic Papers
312 Tricky Figure Trick
315 Silent Thought Transference
Gravatt, Glenn G.
(1899-1984)
Glenn Gravatt became interested in magic as a child growing up in Kansas. At the age of 8 years he was already demonstrating magic for his friends and family. From Kansas, he went to California, where he worked as a newspaper reporter. He wrote " Encyclopedia of Self Working Card Tricks" (2 volumes, 1936 and 1937; later published under the byline of Jean Hugard under the title " Encyclopedia of Card Tricks." In writing the "Jap Box Tricks" in 1937, Gravatt effectively named this box for all time.
Invented: Extratour, Rope Appear, Visible Silk on Rope Appearance, Flying Silk and Ropes, Visible Rope and Ring Penetration, Rope-Silk-Bracelet Combination, Coat-Rope-Rings, No Clue Divination (1977),Five Cube Divination (1977), Psychic Spot (1976), Thimble Fantasy (1960), Card and Dagger (1956), Spooky Paper (1945), Multiple Match (1956), Magical Horse Race (1956), Percepo (1960), Close-up Cup Suspension (1958), The Antique Medallion, Color Ring Transpo, The Mystery of the Seven Veils, Super Penetration, Tube to Cigarettes, Color Riddle, 20th Century in Reverse, Ideal Solid Thru Solid, Dual Silk Production, Kondax (1921).
Compiled: Thayer Quality Magic Volumes 1-4 (1978-1981), Encyclopedia of Self-Working Card Tricks (1936-37)
Wrote: 50 Modern Card Tricks, 50 More Modern Card Tricks, Gold Mine of Magic, Jap Box Tricks (1937)
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Thayer, Floyd G.
(1877-1959)
Born in Jacksonville, Vermont, Thayer moved to California with family in 1891. Thayer was a builder of fine magic props and illusions that were prized by magicians the world over, and still are (as antiques and collectables) today. At his residence, studio and Magic Theatre, located at 929 So. Longwood Ave., Los Angeles, CA, the magicians of the world gathered to meet, socialize and create magic.
Invented: Commando, Color Changing Billiard Ball, Diminishing Billiard Ball, Billiard Ball Stand, Banner Nest of Boxes, Talking Buddah, Rice Orange and Checkers, Reappearing Clock, The Headless Lady Illusion, Reincarnation.
Both Carl and Henry Owen got their start as illusion builders at Thayer's. William Larsen purchased the Thayer house and studio in 1942.
Published the Magic Bulletin.
Jay Leslie remembers: "Thayer was manufacturing puzzles out of wood. He drove into the desert and collected various species to give his puzzles a unique look. He also did not use a 'Tracer' lathe; in other words, all of the billiard balls were cut on the lathe, by eye and caliper measurements. Jim Swoger told me that,on one visit, Floyd cut a perfectly round ball and put the lines in it, taking him around three minutes, without measuring anything."
