Conjuring Tricks set (Gamages ~1931)

A boxed "Gamages Conjuring Tricks" set produced and sold by Gamages of London circa ~1931, and donated to the museum by the Batting Family.

The set is packaged in a hinged-top cardboard box surfaced with wood-effect-patterned paper, with a large sticker in red green and white against dull green on the upper lid, and again on the lid underside.

The box has various compartments with some of the larger tricks (such as a magic dice and metal hoops), and comes with a book, "Easy Conjuring Without Apparatus", published by Routledge, and written by the presumably pseudonymous "Will Baffel".

Identification and dating

The set is fairly obviously produced by Gamages, and we've tracked down only one example of a magic set shown in Gamages adverts that appears to correspond to this one, dating from 1931. Most of the other advertising images show different box artwork (with a standard-lamp on the left), and/or use a more specific name.