A scarce AUTOMATIC SILK TO BALL created by German Manfred Thum\'s \'The Magic Hands\'. I bought this in Italy almost 20 years ago directly from mr. Thum!

The effect: a red silk is shown, then it\'s throwed up in the air where it visibily bacames a red ball!
The effect is a so-called \"Quickie\", and can easily be put in any parlor or stage act to link any silk sequence with a billiard ball manipulation or similar.
It works more or less like a \"silk gun\" (for those \"in the know\"...)

The whole apparatus is a great quality item and is made of painted brass (silk excluded, btw). The small key you can see on the left isn\'t seen by the audience but it\'s necessary to prepare the effect:



Here is a \"secret\" view of the apparatus just before the preparation: