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Magic supplies in Albany, Albany County, New York
Props, gimmicks and trick decks, posted to Albany. The same catalogue a working magician would carry, without a counter to stand at.
We post to every address in Albany County and the rest of New York — there is no shop floor in Albany, and no separate pricing by city.
Albany is small enough that the local magic scene is probably three people who know each other. That is not a disadvantage — it is how most performers learn, and a smaller room is a more honest audience than a big one.
Most people looking for magic tricks in Albany want one of three things: something to learn tonight, a gift for someone starting out, or a specific gimmick to finish a routine they already perform. All three are here — self-working decks and sponge balls at one end, shells and stage apparatus at the other.
Albany
Close-up and street magic
Material built to survive inspection from three feet away: sponge balls, cups and balls, chop cups, ring gimmicks and close-up mats. Street and table work is the most forgiving way to get good, because the audience is small enough to restart and honest enough to tell you when it did not land.
Albany
Card magic
Trick decks do the heavy lifting while you learn: a Svengali deck forces a card without a single sleight, a marked deck tells you what they took, and a stripper deck lets you find it blind. Most working repertoires are still mostly cards, and most of them start here.
Albany
Starting out in Albany
Nobody needs an expensive prop to start. The strongest beginner material in the shop costs less than lunch — self-working decks, sponge balls and forcing dice — and all of it still gets used by people who have been performing for twenty years.
Albany
Where to buy magic tricks in Albany
Magic shops closed almost everywhere between 2000 and 2015, Albany included, and the trade moved online. The gain is range — a marked deck, a chop cup and a set of linking rings in one order. The cost is that you cannot handle anything first, so the listings are written to be read instead: what ships, what it does, what it takes to do it.
Albany
Magic in the Northeast
The northeast has the densest concentration of magic clubs in the country, and New York in particular has a long close-up tradition running from Dai Vernon's circle through to the sessions still happening in the back of coffee shops.
Albany
Getting it to Albany
We post to Albany like anywhere else in the country. That covers all of Albany County. Albany gets the same terms as everywhere else, with free shipping over $75.
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What performers are buying
We ship anywhere in the United States, New York included — there is no shop floor in Albany, just the same catalogue and the same delivery.
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