Summer 2007
Postcard / The Mystery Card
Misdeal
Scott Penrose
![The front of the issue’s postcard featuring a visual puzzle called “The Mystery Car.”](/issues/26/cabinet_postcard_26_1.jpg)
![The back of the issue’s postcard bearing the caption: “Adapted from the design of a postcard sold during the nineteen twenties by Davenport Magic Shop, the longest running magic business in Great Britain. The principle of the Mystery Card uses DeLand’s Paradox, a variation of the vertical line paradox, and copyrighted in nineteen oh seven by Philadelphia engraver and amateur magician, Theodore L. DeLand, Jr.”](/issues/26/cabinet_postcard_26_2.jpg)
Scott Penrose is a British stage magician, and magic consultant for film, television, and theater. His current projects include illusion designs for the Cirque du Soleil show, Kooza, and for the Universal Pictures movie, The Magicians. For more information, visit www.stagemagician.com.
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