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The Final Answer - Scott Alexander
With a Lemon.
Has anyone seen this illusion ?
Regards,
Piers.

WOW...$400 FOR THAT...RIPP OFFF...

I've seen this effect covered in two books already. One of which is and excellent book and is Mark Wilson's Complete course in magic (will be reviewing soon), and has an excellent verison which is almost impromptu...heres the effect as in the book...

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From a bowl containing 3 lemons, a spectator is given free choice of whichever one he wants. The selected lemon is then placed in an ordinary paper or plastic bag and the spectator holds the lemon throughout the entire presentation. After the lemon had been selected and is securely held by the first spectator, the magician borrows a dollar bill and writes its serial number on the back of a small envelope. He then inserts the bill into the enveleop, seals it and gives it to a second spectator to hold. He then recaps exactly what has happened up to this point . Then, the spec holding the envelope is to open it and remove the borrowed bill. when he does instead of the bill he find and I.O.U for one dollar, signed by the magician. The first spectator is given a knife and asked to cut open the selected lemon, which has remanined in his custody at all tims. inside the lemon he finds a tightly rolled dollar bill. When the bill is opened its serial # is found to be exactly the same as the one written on the envelope, proving that the borrowed bill has magically travelled from the envelope to the inside of the selected lemon.
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Thanks !
I have Mark Wilson's book ( great ), and see what you say.
Regards,
Piers.

It goes back further than that.

Great tricks revealed by Will Goldston. First published 1935, my edition 1955 so its as old as me

Titled, The best of all bank note tricks.

The performer borrows a bank-note, reads out the number, folds up the note and burns it. The performer picks up a lemon from the table, cuts open the lemon and removes an egg from the lemon. He breaks the egg into a glass and along with the contents of an uncooked egg there falls from it a walnut. The performer cracks the walnut and removes a note which is identified as the one which disapeared at the begining of the trick.

oye...thats one jolly good trick but there is a good example of a tonne of setup...yeesh..the pain

your all missing one point that makes this trick special thats the note is signed by the spectator has anyone got or seen this trick performed

Scott's addition to this effect is the cleanness of the load. The spectator can choose the fruit (orange, lemon, whatever) and the loading of the note is done right in front of them.

You are paying for precision equipment, but it is not for the amateur. Unless you are a professional performer you should not get this. If you are a worker, you don't need me to tell you.

Take care, Ian

I am a pro worker and can't understand why this would not be for an amateur is it good equipment that anyone can use or not