Professor Heller's Magic Trick Cards, c. 1870s, Extremely Rare universal glass flask Hard to beat mustachioed faces

Hard to beat mustachioed faces topped with red bowler hats

The bowl with wider incised band near the lip measures 7 1/8" across at widest x 3 7/8" tall

The ones with the red markings (Roman numerals I denoting their point values) are a bit heavier in weight and somewhat easier to pick up

perhaps original to the making

all held in a hinged box

Professor Heller's Magic Trick Cards, c. 1870s, Extremely Rare universal glass flask Hard to beat mustachioed facesYou know how much I love antique square corner no indices playing cards, so you can imagine how excited I was to find these antique magic trick cards! Even cooler to learn about the fascinating life of "Professor" Robert Heller (born William Henry Palmer; 18261878) the English magician, mentalist and musician who devised these (more about him below) and to find no other sets of these trick cards anywhere out there, at least that I can see. When