The Celtic Marble Mystery is a beautiful effect where a spectators freely chosen colored marble seems to impossibly disappear from it’s position and reappear inside a central container, underneath a shot glass!
 
The piece has historical roots dating it’s origins back to the 1930’s and Jack Hughes Penetra Spheres and the more popular Abbotts Hole in One. However the Celtic Marble Mystery has a few key differences that also allows you to perform it in different ways.
 
The spectator has a 100% free choice marble
The marbles do not need to be handled after the spectator makes their selection
The effect can be instantly repeated without handling any of the marbles. The spectator can simply choose another colored marble and then have that marble again instantly appear under the shot glass.
The bottom of the base can be flashed to your audience.
 
Designed with an Irish Celtic flare influenced by our Irish roots this piece is also made from Australian Jarrah Eucalyptus hard wood giving it a deep luxurious feel and a connection with our new home in Australia.
 
Material: Made from luxurious Australian Jarrah Eucalyptus hardwood & Eco Friendly Bio-Plastic.
 
Base measures approximately: 6 1/4" Wide x  3/4" High  (16cm x 2cm)
 
Video Tutorial Link Included: A link and password to a video tutorial is included along with your items. This video features Anthony Yap walking you through the effect, method, explanation, and some helpful tips on learning this effect.
 
Mad Rabbit Magic is proud to be one of the select authorized dealers carrying Retro Rocketeers creations. I currently have several of Anthony’s creations available—each one recognized for exceptional craftsmanship, quality, and clever engineering. They’re the kind of items that collectors prize and that display beautifully in any magic collection.
 
Add one of these exclusive works to your collection today!
 
Anthony Yap is an Australian artist with a passion for visual oddities, magical history and the esoteric arts. Influenced by a wide range of genres from mystical ancient cultures to Steampunk & Retrofuturism, Anthony’s creations are highly visual, and usually a lot more than what they seems at first glance.
 
Some artists naturally take to drawing, others modelling clay, for Anthony the virtual world of 3D Sculpting has been his medium of choice for over 2 decades and remained mostly contained to the virtual world until the rise of 3D Printing and additive manufacturing. Here Anthony saw an opportunity to rapidly take concepts and almost like magic to see those creations manifest over night into reality. While a big step in the right direction simply using 3D printing or CNC wasn’t enough, the result still felt unfinished and looked like a toy. Instead, a process and style was developed that uses 3D Printing & CNC as a base to start from with all of the individual pieces then undergoing a long process of hand work, assembly, hand painting & lacquer finishing to bring further quality, depth and feel to the magical creation. Through this process of mixing modern technology and classic hand crafting a unique characteristic is given to each of the items sometimes making the final piece feel as if it was just dug from an ancient tomb or discovered in the archives of some long lost traveling showman.
 
Due to the hand crafted nature of each of the pieces Anthony and his team can only produce a limited number of items each year with majority of the pieces going to collectors and enthusiasts from around the world.