Handmade Victorian Disappearance Magic Trick Flip Book storefront photo big round painted eye with

big round painted eye with sculpted nose between them

all the better for being signed by a miss Beulah

lava-like glazes

And in the best mustard yellow glaze with clay body showing through

Handmade Victorian Disappearance Magic Trick Flip Book storefront photo big round painted eye withI'll never resist a homemade magic trick, and a sweet little thing this one, late 19th century or so, with the exterior of the cardboard covered in lovely gold and lavender paper. It's hard to document, but the folio is hinged in such a way that it can be opened one way, then the other, but not both at once such that one could insert a coin, say, in the little blue paper pocket, then wave it around and open it the other way ta da, the coin has