Edwardian-Era Conjuring Table. American, late nineteenth century. Antique gilt and ebonized oblong oak table, prototypical of the style suggested by Hoffmann in Modern Magic (1876), with ornamental brass molding on front, on free-standing carved legs, with removable wooden cover revealing the floral cloth conjuring surface. Spacious and nicely padded internal shelf accessible from the rear by hinged door. With five mechanical accessories and traps incorporated into the surface including coin droppers (1 ½” wide) at both ends, rabbit and orange traps depressed by hand (the latter by a lever several inches away), and, by means of a string-drawn lever tied to a wooden ball reachable from the backside, a secret pin that may have been used for a Card Star or some other upright stand. Approx. 36”h x 42”w x 18”d. String-drawn levers and cloth surface professionally renewed.