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 😉