I have an Egyptian Water Box that I purchased as a young teen in 1970. Though it is not of “high quality” it isn’t exactly a piece of junk, either. The one displayed here looks as though it is made of all wood, just like mine. In the old days I used it to “transform” water into a silk. Since I started performing again, I just use it to produce a large “The End” silk. It does have angle issues, but no more so than many other tricks, and even as a “youngster magician” I never found it hard to manipulate. Obvious? Perhaps. Maybe I just have a soft spot for this trick because it is one of the few I have managed to hang on to for forty years. Also, I like the way it looks as I slowly produce a 36” silk out of it because it creates a nice effect of something very large coming out of something relatively small.

Cracks me up how the description says this is a very high quality piece of magic. This trick has been around practically since the Egyptians themselves. Strictly for beginners with a little dough to blow, and would arguably work better usinb normal production items instead of water. Naturally this is not made out of any sort of expensive materials for this price. No rubber covers are used on the glass, so in performance the magician is juggling a swinging open glass of water-- and it looks it. Think Flipover Vanish with an open glass of liquid as the load. Totally angly, obvious, and cumbersome for the average youngster magician to perform. Liquid tricks tend to be shunned by many due to messiness, and on top of not being a very good trick, this one is pretty much a disaster waiting to happen.