Windsor, Tommy: Tommy Windsor's Dye Box Book by Many Famous Contributors ©1947 Thomas Lowry Copyright renewed 1975 D. Robbins & Co. Softcover, saddle-stitched, 4.5x8.5", 48 Pages

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Comments: The Dye Box is a gimmicked cardboard box that allows you to exchange or change objects small enough to fit inside. This booklet provides lots of ideas for this illusion.

Contents:

1 What is the Dye Box?: described in general
2 Contents
2 Copyright Statement
3 B&W Photo and brief biography of Tommy Windsor (Lowry)
4 How it All Started: An Introduction by Tommy Windsor. When he first started selling them; a contest for the best routine
6 How to Make Your Own Dye Boxes: for your own personal use
8 Dye Box Basic Moves: showing the box empty and making the appearance, etc.
9 Al Minder's Popcorn Pitch: a candy pitch man act using the box and incorporating some of your regular magic
12 Fifteen Effects and Tips ("Hen" Fetsch):
12 Four Chances in a Million: four pieces of ripped cards are removed from a bunch placed in the carton; the four pieces when assembled are the selection
12 Tips: Turn-Over Tip, Handling Tip, Banana Bag Tip
12 Coin Conceit: transposition of two marked coins
13 Eggs and Lemons: eggs change into lemons, and the box can be fully opened flat
13 Tips: Easter Angle, Presentations, Sucker Egg Climax, Cook-juring, Choice Cut
15 Ribbon Card: a ribbon is threaded through the box, then the cards dumped in; selection becomes attached to the ribbon
15 Ribbon Rings: as above but with bracelets rather than cards
15 Hank Hex: a borrowed handkerchief is accidentally stained, and goes through much before being restored
16 Pitch Presto: Only the magician gets the box with the dollar prize
16 Laundry Ticket Routine (Robert Orben): torn and restored Chinese Laundry Ticket incorporated into the Dye Box routine
18 The Lemon and Bill Routine (Loring Campbell): a bill in lemon routine
18 Three Dye Box Uses (Frank Savell): The Dye Box for Forcing; Dye Box as a Coin Catching Box; A Razor Blade Version
19 Card Silk and Other Ideas (Fu Chang - Northern Ireland): spots on a card vanish and appear on the silk; also Grant's Sun and Moon (using two Dye Boxes; Silk Monte (with Silks); and Dye Box Lottery
19 Birthday Greetings (Prof Bofeys - England): produce alphabet cards saying Happy Birthday
20 Spookie Yarn (Tommy Windsor): one of three colors of yarn, a blank hanky, and a selected card are placed in the box. When opened, the card is blank, and the handkerchief has the card selection embroidered on it in the selected color
23 Bathing Beauty Effect (Bob Klamm): a bathing beauty silk is placed in the box, then a miniature cap and swimsuit are removed, and finally the silk, that now has a large Censored banner across her.
23 Anatomical Mouse (Howard L. Colby): skeleton of a mouse is placed in, a real white mouse is produced
23 Glass of Milk Production (Mone Harris - Canada): silks and glasses of milk produced from the empty box (how to make your own "spring" glasses
24 Four Hints for the Dye Box (Ernsest E. Byrn): Vanish a Glass of Water (actually just the water); Fooled and Fooled Again Trick; P&L Vanishing Wand variation; Producing a valuable prize
25 The Invisible Tailor (Bob Gunther): mini shorts and buttons placed in, completed shorts are pulled out
25 Five Dye Box Suggestions (Harlan Tarbell): Cards on the Ribbon; Safety Pins and Ribbon; The Dollar Bill on the Ribbon; Transpositions; Rising Cards
26 Corny Camera (Mark A. Fitzgerald): a gag photo with a Skull & Crossbones
27 Handkerchief Effect (Burton Marks): three handkerchiefs knot themselves on a wand
27 Rope Trick Finish (Clyde F. Cairy): follow up rope restoration for Clyde's rope trick from page 284 of Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks
29 Good, but Too Short for a Head: 21 quickie ideas from folks like Doc Dougherty, George McAthy, Eddie Clever, Tommy Windsor, and more
32 Dramatic Patter (Jay W. Sadow): a war story with the production of red, white and blue silk
32 Card Revelation and Dollar In the Soap (Frank Gerard Long, Jr.): a silk with a pin is placed in the box and comes out with the selection attached; a soiled dollar is placed in along with soap flakes, then a bar of soap is removed with the dollar in the center
33 What! Another Rising Card? (Harold G. Beaumont (England): Two Jumbo cards rise from the box that are NOT the selection, the third card has vanished and is found in the pocket
33 Trio of Tricks (T. J. Hostetter): Popping Popcorn; Bill in Lemon; Baking Cookies
34 Seven Tricks ("Ace" Gorham):
34 Cut and Restored Necktie Routine: with full patter
36 Triple Location: card effect
37 Patter and Routine for "Magic Soap"
37 Dye Box Bank Nite: only magician gets correct chip
39 True or False: Performer picks correct paper
39 Say When: Cards are removed from the Dye Box until the spectator says "when", that card is the selection
39 From Dye Box to Envelope: selection leave the Dye Box and ends up in an envelope
40 Indestructible Hanky and Bill (Dick Hilliard): destroyed and restored handkerchief or dollar bill
40 Dye Box Five Card Repeat (A.E. Beech - Canada): for a finish, the discarded cards vanish from the Box
41 Surprise Finish to a Cut Paper Trick (Albert H. Miller): cut paper is placed in box, and instead of restoration, lots of paper balls fall out
41 Another Sucker Trick (Dick Zamenski): after showing the box empty, a piece of paper falls to the ground. When called on it, the paper is shown to say "fooled!"
42 In Conclusion: final thoughts
43 Advertisements: Tommy Windsor's Dye Box, Flat Baby Rabbits, more books, etc.