RARE and COLLECTIBLE EFFECT!This is the very desirable METAL model made by Merv Taylor in the 1950s!From the estate of a professional stage magician.
The Giant and the Dwarf was created by the well-known British magic inventor and dealer, Jack Hughes, based upon a Len Belcher idea with a routine by Sydney Sterk. Some versions were made for Hughes by Merv Taylor before It was then licensed to Supreme Magic Company.The figures are brightly painted and well made out of metal.The apparatus supplied consists of The Castle, which is made on the Ghost Tube principle, having a secret compartment at the rear and can be shown empty at all times if held with bottom end towards the audience, allowing clear vision through. You are also supplied with painted cut-out figures of the Dwarf, elongated legs to which Dwarf can be fitted, a large Giant and a diminished Giant, plus two bases which will support the figures in an upright position.
CONDITION: good to very good. Does show signs of wear- SEE PHOTOS.Made of painted metal.Castle is about 13" high, 5.75" wide.Dwarf is 9.5", and with the legs, grows to 17.5" tall.Giant is 13" tall, and shrinks to 8.5".