Ellisdons was a London shop established in the late 1890’s
which sold practical jokes, magic tricks and novelties, as shown in this
advertisement headed “Make the Ladies Scream”. (There is just so much wrong
with that phrase)
The Magic Soot that I purchased, and which was claimed to brush
off instantly and cleanly, was of course made of black plastic. I did once have
the “nail through the finger” trick, but that seems to have been consigned to
the bin in the distant past.
The shop closed in the 1980’s, but you can still buy many of
the novelties it once sold.
Whoopee cushion anyone?
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