Public Domain

Modern Cabinet
Illusion Name
Designer
Servais Le Roy
Illusion Main Category
Short Description

Multiple assistants are produced from an empty cabinet

Oh! (aka The Mahatmas Outdone)
Designer
Charles Morritt and Nevil Maskelyne
Illusion Main Category
Short Description

An assistant is restrained inside of a curtained area. The curtains are drawn up revealing the assistant has vanished.

Palanquin
Illusion Name
Designer
Jack Gwynne
Illusion Main Category
Short Description

The magician shows an empty cabinet and then produces one or more assistants.

The cabinet as typically presented
Designer
Thomas W. Tobin
Illusion Main Category
Sawing a Lady in Half (aka Sawing Through a Woman)
Designer
P.T. Selbit
Illusion Main Category
Short Description

An assistant is sawed in half. The saw is removed and the assistant emerges unharmed.

Sawing an Egg
Illusion Name
Designer
Guy Jarrett
Illusion Main Category
Short Description

The magician saws through his assistant who is curled up inside a wire-framed egg shell.

Designer
P.T. Selbit and David P. Abbott
Illusion Main Category
Short Description

A painting mysteriously materializes in full view of the audience.

Temple of Benares (aka Temple of Angee)
Designer
Jack Gwynne
Illusion Main Category
Short Description

An assistant enters a cabinet and is impaled with swords. The assistant vanishes and then reappears.

Designer
P.T. Selbit
Illusion Main Category
Short Description

Five assistants are instantly produced and then instantly vanished.

Designer
P.T. Selbit
Illusion Main Category
Short Description

Six girls are produced from 3 doors in an empty cabinet.