Gravatt, Glenn: Thayer Quality Magic Catalog Instruction Sheets Vol. 4
©1981 Glenn Gravatt, Lloyd Jones, Magic Limited, CA
Hardcover, w/dj, 6x9", 324 pages
ISBN: 0-915926-30-X
©1997 Lee Jacobs Productions, OH
Glenn Gravatt: Thayer Quality Magic Catalog
Instruction Sheets Vol 4
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
These are the Lloyd Jones first edition not the Lee Jacobs reprints with the paperback Volume One
Comments: Compiled by Glenn Gravatt, edited by Theron Fox & Barbara Walker. Fourth in a series of four compilations of instruction sheets from Thayer Quality Magic.
Contents (from Lee Jacobs edition book ToC):
1 Afghan Bands
1 Loops of Mystery
2 Improved Afghan Bands
4 Red Rag Rig
9 Restored String
11 Rickard's Afghan Bands
13 Card Magic
13 Believe It or Not Card in Pocketbook
17 Find the Queen
19 Shrinking Card
21 Kolar Card Trick
25 Buddha Whispers
28 Cards With Apparatus
28 Marvelous Card Star
29 Hartz Master Card Frame
30 Thayer's New Lock Flap Card Box
31 Stop Trick of Tomorrow
33 Golden Spider Web
35 Tom Seller's Rising Cards
37 Express Delivery
39 Cigarette Magic
39 Latest Lighted Cigarette Vanish
40 Smoke Trick
41 Diestel's E. Z. Cigarette Dropper
43 Rising Smoke or Mystery in the Case
46 Smoker's Dream
47 L.S.M.F.T.
50 Club & Stage Magic
50 Miracle Frame
52 Bewildering Blocks
56 Master Changing Table
58 Flower Growth Supreme Improved
61 Mysterious Linking Rings
64 Dice
64 Eli's Die Box
66 Mysto That Mysterious Die & Frame
67 Die Box
69 Vanish of a Die Box
71 Divinations
71 Phantom Color Rods & Tube
72 Twins
75 Witching Hour
76 X-Ray Pencil Mystery
77 Mystic Crayons & Tube
78 Mystic Tapp-It (Heath)
80 Kolar's Challenge Tag Trick
62 Divination Supreme
84 Floating
84 Haunted Candle
85 Haunted Candle Later method
86 Hopping Handkerchief
88 Improved Floating Match
89 McCullough's Floating Light Bulb
90 Demon Rising & Floating Match
91 Floating Ball
93 Spirit Light of Lucifer
95 Chinese Jug & Rope
96 Livestock
96 Hindoo Wonder Bowl
98 L. W. Rabbit Box
99 Flight of Rodents
101 New Model Dynamic Dove Vanish Illusion
103 Chester Morris Rabbit Vanish
104 Tube of Tibet
106 Matches
106 Lighted & Vanishing Match
108 Topsy Turvy Match
109 Wizard's Matches
112 Latest Broken & Restored Match
114 Hop - Skip - Ju mp
116 Match Box Magic
118 Improved Acrobatic Match Box
120 Corn Beans & Match Box Mystery
123 Money
123 Sliding Coin Box
125 New Chinese Coin Trick
126 The Six Coins
128 Okito Coin Box
129 Rattle Box
131 Nelson Wallace Coin Tray
133 Mystic Coin Slide
135 Bill & Lemon
138 Half Dollar in Bottle
140 Rickard’s Bill in Lemon
143 Purse Vanish
144 Crystal Coin Vase
146 Penetrations
146 Grant’s Visible Walking Through a Ribbon
148 New Penetrable Glass
150 Baffo
152 E.S. Cord & Ring Trick
153 Rope & Rings Release
154 Thayer’s Ring-A-Key
156 Miracle Penetration
158 Ghost Power
160 Spirit Nut
161 Pocket, Parlor & Close-Up
161 Jumping Peg Pencil
162 Ball of Mystery
163 Ribbon Factory
164 Famous 3 Shell Game
166 Wanda
167 Pig Turns Round
168 Racing Form to Shorts
170 Kolar's Salt & Pepper Trick
173 Chink a Chink
175 Now Kling Klang
176 Triple Mystery Cube
178 Sten's Frutite
180 Devil Glass
181 Foo-Ling Cup
164 Newspaper Servante
185 Water Wiz
188 Orange & Apple
187 Magnetic Pencil
188 Famous Needle Trick
192 Silks - Color Changes
192 Ultra Handkerchief Color Change
194 Pep Up Color Change
195 Super Simplex Silk Blowing Act
197 Rice's Mis-Made Flag
199 Silks - Productions
199 Thayer's New Wonder Silk Cabby
201 Silk Cabby No. 2
203 Novel Silk Production
206 Mystery of the 7 Veils
210 Phantom Tube
212 Simplex Tumbler Pedestal
213 Thaver's New Flash Bare Hand Silk Production
214 Berland's Firefly
216 Silks - Misc.
216 Handkerchief & Envelope Mystery
219 Loyd's Visible 20th Century
221 A Brassiere Trick
222 Rickard's Flash Pull
223 Handkerchief Vanishing Wand
226 Kobra (The Charm Feat of India)
229 Kolar's Mystic Rose
230 Miniature Silk Vanish (Pencil Wand)
231 Edgar Pull
233 Thayer's New Lock Flap Handkerchief Box
235 Spiritualistic Effects
235 Thayer's Latest Improved Ghost Chest Mystery
239 A Voice From the Great Beyond
242 A Message From Beyond
245 Annemann's Eyes of the Unknown
247 Hewitt's 30th Century Television
251 Forcit
253 A Mysterious Seance
257 Self-Setting Clock Hand
258 Whisper Word
260 Spirit Writing Pads
261 Crystal Clock Dial
261 The Clock Dial
262 Magician's Blindfold
263 Seership Predicto
265 Thayer's Famous Dr» Q. Spirit Slates
270 Hewitt's Modern Mind Reader
273 Tables
274 New Portable Black Art Table
274 Amazo Side Stand Table
275 New Oriento Pack Flat Table
275 New Chinko Side Stand
276 New Bamboo-Chinko Magicians Tables
276 Ideal Magic Table
277 Mephisto Center Table
278 New Elite Magic Table
278 Colonio Magic Table
279 Junior Side Table
280 Kellar Side Table
280 Famous Eureka Magic Table
281 Modern Magicians Table Base
281 Plain Table Tops
281 Elephant Head Tables
282 Perfecto Black Art Table Tops
282 Simplex Folding Side Table Base
283 New Model "A" All Metal Table
283 Table to Suit Case
284 Torn & Restored
284 Jean Ilugard's Great Newspaper Trick
286 Torn & Restored Newspaper
287 Chu Gum Long
288 Grant's Stung Paper Tear
289 Latest Burned & Restored Paper
291 Clippo
295 Kolar's Straw & String Trick
300 New Devil Sticks
303 Phenomenal Rope Trick
305 Super Quality Rope Device
306 Tarbell's Many Cut Rope Mystery
309 Memories
311 Floyd G. Thayer - An Appreciation (John U. Zweers)
315 Fond Memories of My Youth (Glenn Gravatt)
317 Index (Cumulative Volumes 1-4)
317 Subject
318 Tricks Alphabetical
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."
