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I'm on the hunt for a production of a card or billet inside a raw egg. I've been playing around with a few ideas but am making more of a mess than actually getting anywhere.

I'm sure that there must be a method out there somewhere, I'd really appreaciate it if someone could nudge me in the right direction.

Thanks

Sanada gimmick maybe?

How visual do you want it to be?
I'm thinking same method as card in balloon maybe?
Mercury fold, palm, egg. done.

Thanks Lawrence, that's the direction that I was starting to think in too. I was just wondering if there was anything more visual out ther.

Here in the US people are leary of raw eggs. Too many horror stories of disease and such. Not sure if that is an issue in the UK. Just something to keep in the back of your mind.

I only bring it up because there was a routine where the magician breaks the egg into a spectators hand and the card and egg fall grossly into the spectators hand. Most have abandoned that particular routine.

I've got a simple ring to egg method I saw a good while ago, that can be adapted to a hardish billet, but not for a card, can PM if you'd like.

G

Look up "Hatched". It would suit your requirements perfectly. Just change thew ord "coin" to "billet" and its perfect. You show the egg from all sides, and it is clearly inside when opened up.

Thanks Beardy, that sounds like it might just do what I'm after

you need to use the old style version of the ring in egg. It used a gaffed egg cup, but was clean.

also, if you can't already, learn to crack an egg with one hand.
I think this would help with the palm method

Never heard of a gimmicked egg cup. Sounds very interesting, especially if it can be loaded with the actual item and not a duplicate.

Just out of curiosity, are egg cups commonly used in Europe? Generally speaking, they are an old rich lady kind of thing here in the States. That or the cup is made of a precious metal and sits in a hutch as an ornament. Anyway...

Egg in egg cup. Slit in top of egg. Egg is now more or less a bank by design. Mercury fold. Deposit card. Use spoon to tap egg starting with the slit, thereby covering the dirty work. Take off "lid" and pour out egg and card.

Would likely need a large egg and bridge size card. Would easily work for billets so long as it isn't a flimsy paper.

This doesn't work on all types of eggs and may or may not add anything to your presentation but it's an idea- in a dim room, focus a light source directly on the egg from behind. If the shell is light in color enough and the membrane(sp?) thin enough, you will be able to see the shape of the card/coin/billet/etc. inside the egg. Kinda like an x-ray. Results, for me, have been hit-n-miss.

Sorry for the choppy wording- posting from iphone.

.robb. wrote:Never heard of a gimmicked egg cup. Sounds very interesting, especially if it can be loaded with the actual item and not a duplicate.

Yes, its the actual ring that appears inside the egg, its quite an old idea. While it works well with rings and smallish coins, Im not sure if this method would be suitable for a folded playing card.

jim

If the cup was deeper, it would sit under the egg. you could then use long, fine pliers, or tweezers, to extract it, with a stabing motion at first.. rather than using a crochet hook to retrieve a ring.. I hope this makes sense.

See also the post in the Magicians Only Area....

The design of the gimmicked egg cup can be found in Hoffman's "Drawing Room Conjuring", just in case you find it difficult to find one for sale and have to "gimmick" one yourself. He suggests using it to produce a canary from a chicken's egg - ahhhhhh poor thing!