Large Himber Instructions
Large Himber Instructions
Large Himber Instructions
Fooled using a play on the American word Billfold. The basic construction of this type of wallet
has not changed over the years and has become known as a “Himber’s”. These wallets look like
ordinary wallets in all aspects, except they have two separate identical interiors, with two narrow
straps that keep one of the interiors closed while the other one is open. These straps are the
hinges for this wallet, the Himber must not be over filled or it will damage the Himber. An item
placed in one interior will vanish when the wallet is turned over and the second interior is
opened and shown.
These wallets will only work properly if they are made correctly and aligned correctly. There are
unfortunately many inferior wallets on the magic market today. My wallets are the best in terms
of quality and design they have no cardboard stiffeners only lining and leather which makes
them the thinnest available in the magic world today.
Introduction
The top pocket goes through to the other interior. It’s also deep enough to hide a poker size
card on one side only. Anything placed in here will show reversed in the other interior, after the
turn over switch. The corner pockets are deliberately cut in the centre to allow paper items to
display flatter when held in only one of the corners this also helps left hand users.
I repeat myself again. Do not over fill these wallets, it will effect their alignment. You will notice
that all the hinges are material, not leather, making it so very easy to open and close. Use my
Turn Over Change, it’s a very natural easy move.
Look for a mark on one side of the leather that stands out so that you can identify which side is
which. I suggest The Mini Himber is kept in the jacket’s top hanky pocket and the Large in the
inside Jacket pocket. Get used to handling the Himber’s always know which way they are
placed back and how you remove them. Once you’ve decided the handling don’t change it it will
become a very natural move to take them out and place them back ready for the next
performance.
Many routines for these wallets have already been published. Ken Brookes, Travelling Money
is the perfect trick for the Large Himber.
These Himber’s look like ordinary wallets in all aspects, except they have two separate identical
interiors, with two straps that keep one of the interiors closed while the other is open. An item
placed in one interior will vanish when the Himber is turned over.
There are unfortunately many inferior Himber’s on the magic market today. My Himber’s are the
best in terms of quality and design they have no cardboard stiffeners only cotton material and
leather which makes them the thinnest available in the magic world today.
I make the Large Himber the Mini Himber and the Mini Peek-It Himber.
This one handed handling is so easy to perform, I believe this is the most natural way to open a
Himber. When you master this move it looks and feels as though you haven’t even made a
turnover, you will fool yourself. If you require some help, give me a ring, I’ll be happy to help you
with anything you may not have understood from these instructions.
Travelling Money Routine
For this routine you will need the following or use other paper things if you feel it would work
OK.
• 5 Blank cheques, each from a different bank
• 8 USA 1 dollar bills stick 5 of these behind the cheques
• 5 mixed UK paper money notes. Stick behind, five large foreign notes
• 10 different sizes of paper currency from different countries
• 1 x Large O’Connell Himber
The effect
Remove a loose batch of cheques from your Himber wallet. Show they are from various banks.
Ask if someone would cash one of the cheques, as there are no takers, place them back into
the wallet and close it. When you open it again, the cheques have changed into US dollar bills.
Return the dollar bills back to the wallet and close it, when opened again they have turned into
UK money, return these back to the Himber wallet and when opened again they have changed
into an assortment of notes from many different foreign countries.
The above routine is easy to perform. The four changes are quite stunning. The Himber wallet
does all the work.
Performance
Open side 1, and remove and show the cheques, asking if someone would cash one for you.
Point out that the numbers are missing from the cheques, but it should get through, you hope.
But say to your audience “I take it you don’t trust me” execute a turnover change to show the
dollar bills, but you are in England and dollars won’t do. Put the dollars away into the two
corners and execute the Turn Over Change then show the UK notes, suggest that this is the
only type of money you need when travelling as you can get whichever money you require, it’s
like when you travelled to Turkey, open the wallet and find a Turkish note as you sort around in
the batch of foreign money to find a Turkish note. This brings you to the end of the performance.
Thoughts
Add five or more loose dollar bills to your batch, these will make the display look much better
when you show the money.
Add a lot more foreign notes to make the final display really spectacular as you sort out the note
you require.