Auction #13 - February 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2023
Wizards Pen (aka Mike Munves Mystic Pen), International Mutoscope, 1930s (exact date unknown). palm reader fortune teller. Often known as Exhibit Supply Mystic Pen. Put a nickel in the coin push slide and place your hand on the top casting, the pen inside jumps around as if writing a personal message to you. When finished the machine vends out what appears to be a hand written card with a reading of your palm. But in reality the card are pre-printed. Mike Munves repainted these and sold them as their in the 1940s and 1950s. The fortune card reads, "The magic ray reads you like a book. Drop another coin in the slot and the electric pen will write you some more."
This supposed complete set of (24) Mike Munves Magic Pen set is in NRMT to Mint Condition. Each card has the same red monotone front with what appears to be a handwritten note on the back of the card. Similar to the weight machines of the 1950's this was supposed to be a fortune-teller type message from the "Magic Pen" machine.
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