*[SOLD]* U.F. Grant Vintage Tipsy Turvy Bottles *PREOWNED*

The original glass bottles set made by U.F. GRANT!
Original U.F. Grant tricks are sought after and increasingly hard to find- especially in this condition!
Rare screw top model!
Purchased directly from the MAK Magic archives!

Ask your spectator to do EXACTLY as you do- but as hard as they try- they JUST CAN'T follow you!

Two bottles and two tubes are used.
A spectator uses one set and you use the other.
Each of you places a tube over a bottle.
The bottles both start out right side up.
They are turned upside down and right side up again, back and forth, with the spectator following your every move exactly.
HOWEVER, when the covers are raised, your bottle is always UPRIGHT.
The spectator's is always UPSIDE DOWN!!
Repeat the process as often as you want!
As the grand finale, your bottle turns upside down while still inside the tube!
Great comedy potential, and your audience will roar with laughter as they watch your confused spectator try so hard to follow you.

Supplied complete with real glass bottles, metal cover tubes and original instructions.
Bottles are about 9" high.

"Gen" Grant was a major manufacturer and inventor of scores of magic classics, such as the Bengal Net, Cheek To Cheek, Chen Lee Water Suspension and Strat-O-Sphere.
A direct descendant of General U. S. Grant, he got his start in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, marketing a small line of smple pocket tricks.
Eventually, after working for the Abbott Magic & Novelty Co. and having a brief partnership with R.N. Menge (Grant and Menge Magic), he opened his own shop and manufacturing facility in Columbus, Ohio.
Grant spent several decades joyously creating and selling many tricks, table illusions and booklets. Lots of booklets!
Eventually, he "retired", installing his daughter as owner and operator of the magic manufacturing business, while he continued to hold court in his own little magic shop next door.
His daughter, Mary Ann King, operated MAK Magic with her husband, Jim. Eventually in the 2010s, her son, Jimmy took over, closing the business for good in 2024.