Happy New Year from the Garden of England
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 11:34 am
Hi, happy new year to you all! I’m Chris, I'm 39 years old, and I currently live and work in Kent.
My first magic trick was a gift from my aunt about 35 years ago - it was a clear plastic box in which you placed a red wooden ball through which ran two yellow pieces of string. One loop of string was tied around the box, and then when the ends of the two pieces of string were pulled, the wooden ball and clear plastic box were released from the string.
Shortly after that, I was gifted my first Davenports catalogue from that same aunt, and I saved up for various (what I now realise were) Tenyo tricks: Crystal Tube (T-24), Super Phanto Block (T-74), Bare Bones (T-133) and others. Unfortunately, I only discovered their provenance long after I’d passed them on to others, dismissing them as “cheap plastic tat”… while I focussed on my new passion for ‘proper’ card magic...
And now I’ve come full circle. I’m old enough and ugly enough to fully embrace that “cheap plastic tat” and enjoy it for both the history, thought and ingenuity that has gone into each piece, and for the enjoyment they bring to me and my young family.
Look forward to chatting with you, and reading through some of the excellent material hidden away in these pages.
Cheers,
Chris
My first magic trick was a gift from my aunt about 35 years ago - it was a clear plastic box in which you placed a red wooden ball through which ran two yellow pieces of string. One loop of string was tied around the box, and then when the ends of the two pieces of string were pulled, the wooden ball and clear plastic box were released from the string.
Shortly after that, I was gifted my first Davenports catalogue from that same aunt, and I saved up for various (what I now realise were) Tenyo tricks: Crystal Tube (T-24), Super Phanto Block (T-74), Bare Bones (T-133) and others. Unfortunately, I only discovered their provenance long after I’d passed them on to others, dismissing them as “cheap plastic tat”… while I focussed on my new passion for ‘proper’ card magic...
And now I’ve come full circle. I’m old enough and ugly enough to fully embrace that “cheap plastic tat” and enjoy it for both the history, thought and ingenuity that has gone into each piece, and for the enjoyment they bring to me and my young family.
Look forward to chatting with you, and reading through some of the excellent material hidden away in these pages.
Cheers,
Chris
. I ripped open the package and started playing. I loved it. Several years later I realized there was a company called 'Tenyo', after watching Roberto Breyer's video's on YT 