In the 1920s and 1930s Woolworth stores were famous for selling magic tricks. The items were imaginatively designed and simply made, with some designed for conjuring tricks and some for practical jokes. Mass production that they could be offered at unbeatable prices, with 'Nothing Over Sixpence', at the time the equivalent of just 2½p or 10 US Cents - today around £2 or $1.60. Some were just threepence or half this amount.
The products were advertised from time to time in the newspapers and the firm also gave away bright pink leaflets with details of the latest range for people to take home and plan a party. We've reproduced a full four page brochure below, or if you prefer you can download a PDF of the full four-page leaflet. While some of the tricks would look very old-fashioned today, many would be just as clever or just as funny in the 21st Century as they were a hundred years before. |
