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HI.

I have an idea to manufacture a trick which was showed to me about 20 years ago...
I have never seen it done since then.
I'm not sure whether it is already copyrighted.
It involves someone from the audience producing a coin, marking it and putting it in a handkerchief.

I then make the coin vanish and it appears in box, within a box, within a box...

As anyone heard of the trick?
How do I copyright it?
How do I sell it?
Can I get royalties?
How do I stop people revealing the trick?

Please help

Damo

Indeed I Know of a trick thats sounds like the one you discribed. I have a plastic kids version, and its a great trick. You vanish a marked coin and straight away (no delay) cleanly reach into your pocket and take out a box.. and you get the spec to do the rest, he opens it, then the one inside it... (there are about 4 boxes) and the center one contains the marked coin, and its all examinable. Unfortanly I cant reveal the secret here.

And there isnt really a way to stop people revealing it

Nope, someone's beaten you to it I'm afraid!

The brass version is called spellbinding boxes