Maker of Special Tricks, Illusions, and Stage Equipment.

A Granville Taylor Publication:  JOHN MARTIN.  The Master Magical Mechanic.  A Genius at Work. Limited Edition of 250 copies, each one numbered and signed by the author, Granville Taylor.  105 pages, including 24 pages in full colour with over 100 colour photographs, plus 10 detailed workshop plans of Martin replicas made by Granville Taylor.   Price £60.00 plus £5.50 U.K.Postage.  Airmail:  £12.00.  E-mail for detailed flyer:  taylormademagic@yahoo.co.uk

A Granville Taylor Publication:  "THE EVOLUTION OF FAUST".  The Autobiography of Granville Taylor.  Now published in a limited edition of 250 copies.  Price: £45.00 plus £6.00 U.K. postage.  Airmail U.S.A.: £14.50.   Europe: £7.50.  See Evolution of Faust page on this site for details of contents of the book. 

Granville Taylor's email address:  taylormademagic@yahoo.co.uk

Faust the Magician's official website: 

 www.faust.i8.com

Faust has sold all the equipment in store for his GREAT MAGIC SHOW to a buyer in Spain.  He has sold all his John Martin equipment,  to a buyer in the U.S.A., and all his remaining stage costumes plus velvet drapes and scenic cloths as one lot to a buyer in the U.K.

Tricks, illusions, close-up magic, magic books, memorabilia, DVD's and stage equipment still for sale, including Amac's Three Card Illusion "Find the Lady", are listed at:  www.faustsmagicinstore.com with photographs on www.taylormademagic.com

FAUST & Company.  Japanese TV.  1976.  The favourite small trick of Faust's Japanese promoter, Hiroshi Ohkawa.  Performed with style and panache to the music of "Valse D'Ete" by Adamo. For sale:  £175 plus postage. 2-in-1 parasol, with cover and silks, are in a "scrimmed" wooden travel box.

The Taylor-Made Coin Ladder.  Small electric motor, battery operated, delivers a coin every 5 seconds.  Holds 20 coins.  Plus two coin holders built into table, each holding 20 coins, for a shower of coins from hands for finale.  For sale.  £1,250.

Faust's Snake Basket.  Modified wind-up gramophone motor mechanism.  Rising and falling mechanism designed by Faust's friend, the late "Marco".  15 months to make.  For sale.  £1,250.

Abbott's Duck Pan. Plated.  Easily holds 3-4 doves.  Light the pan, extinguish the flames with the lid, remove, and there are the doves.  Complete with "scrimmed" wooden travel box. £75.  (Faust perched the doves in his Dove Cage, added another dove from Dove in Balloon, covered them with a cloth, and cage and doves disappeared).

Thin Model Dove in Balloon.  Taylor-Made.  £175.

Changing Ladle.  Taylor-Made.  £150. 

(Similar to the one used by The Great Lyle in his "The Cunning Bunny" routine for exchanging a borrowed watch in an envelope for another envelope containing just a silk handkerchief with a small watch sewn into one corner of the handkerchief.  Boy from audience held the envelope to his ear to confirm the borrowed watch was still there, whereas it was off-stage with the Lyle assistant to attach to a ribbon tied around a rabbit's neck).

Vintage Stanyon's Jumbo 3-Card Trick, with Taylor-Made Display Stand.  Cards are in a "scrimmed" wooden travel box. £30.

Glass  Penetration Frame. Taylor-Made.  Based upon the original Chris Charlton model, but much larger, and made from "Dural"with an improved design so that it looks like the glass is riveted into the frame.  Complete with "Dural" rod,  long ribbon, and its own padded travel box.  Unique. £375.

Abbott's Hole in One.  In "scrimmed" wooden travel case.  £175.

Vampire (Max Andrews) Diminuendo & Diminuendo in Reverse.  Glassware.  With original advertisement.  In a wooden travel box with individual compartments.  £125.

My younger son, Jamie, with his wife Geraldine and their son Lewis ready to depart for a Halloween party.

At another Halloween party, my grandson Lewis gets in on the act as Dracula.

Third photograph of Lewis and Geraldine, taken 31st.October 2009 on their way to another Halloween party.

My first trick!  Routine taught to me by my Uncle Arthur Nash, with 6" Linking Rings I bought from Will Goldston's Magic Shop in 1940.  On the writing slope on the left is a 15" stainless steel set that I had made for me in Osaka in 1971 for playing the huge theatres in Japan.  (Photographed November 2009).