Professor Heller's Magic Trick Cards, c. 1870s, Extremely Rare universal glass flask The bowl with wider incised

The bowl with wider incised band near the lip measures 7 1/8" across at widest x 3 7/8" tall

perhaps original to the making

but to my eye it is quite beautiful in all of its humility

The ones with the red markings (Roman numerals I denoting their point values) are a bit heavier in weight and somewhat easier to pick up

The world of Japanese Netsuke is incredibly complex (and incredible

Professor Heller's Magic Trick Cards, c. 1870s, Extremely Rare universal glass flask The bowl with wider incisedYou know how much I love antique square corner no indices playing cards, so you can imagine how excited I was to find these antique magic trick cards! Even cooler to learn about the fascinating life of "Professor" Robert Heller (born William Henry Palmer; 18261878) the English magician, mentalist and musician who devised these (more about him below) and to find no other sets of these trick cards anywhere out there, at least that I can see. When