I also asked ifhe’d like to sell his Milk Can, but he said,‘No, I’m using that for a rain barrel.’” Harry adds, “In those days nobody wasreally collecting handcuffs, and I thinkit’s the best investment I ever made. “He was in ill health, butsaid if I sent him some money he’d sendme some stuff. ![]() Harry asked the retiredillusionist if he’d be willing to part withsome handcuffs. Then I got some Burl-ing Hull books, then thought I needed toknow something about handcuffs, so Istarted collecting those.” He even con-tacted The Great Nicola, the famed magi-cian who lived a few hours’ drive north ofHarry in Illinois. The neighbors thought wewere both crazy.” Harry says, “The first acquaintancemade with escapes was Ottokar Fischer’sbook Illustrated Magic, which has a finsection on escapes. He recalls, “The first timewanted to practice an upside-down strait-jacket escape, I put up a block-and-tacklein our yard and had my mother haul meup the tree.
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