I have the Metalist Wallet........if you are into mentalism you will get use from it certainly and it is a nice prop....I bought mine from Alan Shaxon when he lectured at the Plymouth Magic Circle about 2 yrs ago and although I am interested in mentalism and would like to incorporate mentalism into my act I haven't found a use for the pad as yet!!
I was in the local magic shop yesterday and was looking at the very Jerry O'Connel wallet you mention......it's a very nice prop as is all wallets made by Jerry, but he makes many variations and they are very expensive but you pay for what you get.....an expensive price for a quality item.......if you think you will use the no palm feature then you will pay that bit extra, I personally wouldn't get a use from that as I would just palm the card and pay a bit less....his palm wallet is a bit less expensive!
At the moment I am using a Balducci wallet, which works just fine but it doesn't have the card to sealed envelope feature so I am a bit tempted but put off by the price at the moment.......is it worth shelling out about £90 to add this feature to my act!
Then again Jerry does the full monte version, which is a palm, no palm and card to sealed envelope version but it depends what you want to do with it and do you need all those features......!
