Designer: Guy Jarrett

Jarrett described his effect in Jarrett Magic. An assistant enters a trunk via two front doors. The trunk has a rounded lid and till that fits within the lid. The tray and lid are closed along with the front doors and the trunk is revolved. The lid and tray are both raised and the doors opened. The girl has vanished and the audience thinks she must have gone out the back. The magician rotates the trunk to show the rear. The audience then assumes she somehow sneaked into the lid, but the till is pulled down showing she isn’t in the lid either. She has completely vanished from the trunk. Jim Steinmeyer, in The Complete Jarrett, believed this effect to be so complicated that it was probably best suited for demonstration in Jarrett’s shop. However, Jarrett often used complicated illusions, so it is very probable he used this illusion on stage.