Robert Harbin’s ‘Card in Bottle’ is a terrific trick. I absolutely love Martin Lewis’ brilliant adaption/method for doing it. The only wee little drawback is that it demands the use of a blackout table to get rid of the empty bottle. For a long time I have been thinking how to omit the black art table. Here is the hack.
First of all, you will use very small liquor bottles. These must be slim enough to fit under a deck shell. Maybe you will have to construct a special card box, which is a little higher than the usual ones, so the small bottle fits in. If you use Cardshark’s slightly larger ‘Parlor Deck’, those modification are easy.
The rest of the set-up is the same as the Lewis set-up: two small cigar boxes, the smaller one having no bottom.
The deck is in the deck shell. You remove it and force the card. The deck and the box are placed behind the cigar box on the table. The routine follows exactly the Lewis routine, with one exception: when you place the little bottle into the nested cigar boxes, you actually place it behind the cigar box and immediately slide the deck shell over it. Thus it is hidden when you lift the cigar box.
No need for the well in the table any more …
Pass it on!