Propelled Pasteboards

  It all started with the acquisition of this unusual souvenir card, and quickly became one of my favorite tales of magic history. Posing n...

"Magic is easy once you know the secret!” conjuring pitchman Marshall Brodien touted in television spots for “TV Magic Cards,” hawked a...

Here we feature an unusual artifact from one of magic's most unusual exponents.  The picture is far from ideal, as this glossy, textured...

Earlier this year, we featured our Cavalcade of Inventors , spotlighting the many magic inventors who have been showcased on this site.   As...

  It's hard to believe that it's been seven years since my first post about Harrison Greenbaum on these pages - "Harrison Green...

Carl Bremer's 1930 Card Box Patent  At Propelled Pasteboards, we take pride in recognizing a broad array of magical figures, from fifty-...

These two identically-faced mini playing cards, with back designs rendered in red and blue, are artifacts of the career of Swedish illusi...

    Analyzing 150,000+ Hits on Propelled Pasteboards' 6th Anniversary Our own promotional throwout card   out of print and now a collect...

When researching magicians, it's always hard to know what to believe, But the subject of this post - Eddie "Tex" McGuire -- i...

            Alston Whitey Peterson was born on November 17, 1902, in Butte, Montana. Whitey’s family moved near San Francisco, California, j...