Mullica Wallet Tip

I love the cat­e­go­ry “hacks” on this blog, which deals with fix­ing small prob­lems in our mag­i­cal life. This is one of those “hacks” that are intend­ed to make a magician’s life more com­fort­able and more trou­ble-free.

The Mul­li­ca Wal­let is a great thing. But then, the removal and the shift­ing of the signed card under­neath the wal­let some­times makes trou­ble — also, the hid­ing of the slit of the small­er wal­let. I loved the port­fo­lio (s), and I hat­ed it (for those rea­sons). Need to force me to con­tin­ue to work on it for a solu­tion. Both prob­lems solved now in the «de Cova way».

To hide the slit, I put a Post-it note onto the small wal­let with a shop­ping list, humor­ous com­ment (“The Card is Hid­den in Here!” or some oth­er crap), what­ev­er. This note also serves as an addi­tion­al men­tal mis­di­rec­tion lat­er. The bill aligns pre­cise­ly with the slit and over­laps (the wal­let) a lit­tle bit. Then, this over­lap will give you, even more, cov­er when you pull the signed card from the com­part­ment.

The next thing I changed was the place­ment of the small wal­let. I just lay it into the big­ger wal­let — no fum­bling around try­ing to push the small­er one into the com­part­ment. Just lay it in there, note side up.

Handling

With the signed card loaded under­neath the big­ger wal­let, open it. With the oth­er hand, remove the small­er port­fo­lio.

The small­er wal­let is removed, the big­ger closed. Low­er can be shown freely, the edge of Post-it note cov­ers the slit.
At this point, you can show the small­er wal­let from both sides, which you do. Mean­while, the right hand clos­es the big­ger wal­let by flip­ping the left side over.

Now for the move that took me years (!) to fig­ure out, even though it is so log­i­cal and self-evi­dent. But then the tree and the for­est thing. Or maybe only because I am a stu­pid and slow guy. 🙂

Instead of doing now all the com­pli­cat­ed shift­ing of the signed card under­neath that wal­lets (as writ­ten in those instruc­tions), free you mind an do it the «de Cova way». The broad­er port­fo­lio is placed mere­ly on top of the small­er one, and you imme­di­ate­ly turn over both wal­lets!

Now your signed card is loaded secure­ly under­neath the small­er one, which you can take (along with the signed card). Put the big­ger wal­let aside, open the small one and pro­duce the card.

Sounds sim­ple? It is! The 1 sec­ond it takes for the turnover is less noticed by the spec­ta­tors than the fum­bling under­neath, try­ing to get the card from wal­let to wal­let. Give it a try, and I am sure you will use this. Thank you Tom Mul­li­ca, for giv­ing us your bril­liant wal­let. And I have to thank myself for work­ing on it and devel­op­ing han­dling that makes me hap­py.

Share this at the Black­pool Con­ven­tion (but only with the right and essen­tial peo­ple) for the ben­e­fit of the oth­er magi­cians! But don’t tell them it’s mine, pre­tend you invent­ed this. Prob­a­bly will get you a pint or two 😉