Card Tricks. An important collection of faked cards and packs:twenty nine single cards or sets including three diagonally divided cards, [c.1820], four cards and pictorial title for a "New and Original Pack of Conjuring Cards", with flowers as well as suite signs, coloured by hand, J. Allen, 1824; three flap cards, one producing a triple change, [c.1820]; one single change, [c.1860] and a German example, [c.1890]; two moving pip cards, [c.1870], cards from two forcing decks, [c.1850, and France, c.1900]; a weighted card used by Charles Bertram; five cards from a French pack of changing cards, [c.1880]; five cards from a pack with changing fronts and backs, [c.1880]; five cards from a German changing pack, [c.1895]; seven examples of De Land cards; and 23 cards with special backs, the majority portraits of "Robinson the Man of Mystery" [later Chung Ling Soo], William Eugene Powell, W.C. Jeans, T. Nelson Downs, Harry Houdini, and others, all mounted on large sheets of card, in portfolio; over 750 separate tricks or packs, the majority early twentieth century, some by De Land, Bagshawe, Will Goldston, Ned Williams or Davenport, all but a few in envelopes, many original, others with details and often an illustration from a catalogue or advertisement pasted to front; the complete packs including a Conradi "Butterflies", with set of faked cards to match, and a Gamagic pack in original case; and a box with accessories for producing faked cards.

***The bulk of the collection was formed by Bayard Grimshaw, into which was amalgamated George Mackenzie's collection of about 100 tricks, one a card envelope allegedly used by Hofzinser, together with his typed notes and list of the tricks, illustrated with original drawings and bound in book form; and over 60 tricks and packs used by Jock Marsh in his lectures on the subject. A number of modern packs and tricks have been added by John Fisher. The selection of cards mounted on card sheets are as exhibited in Manchester, 1959..