2013-05 Make Arrangements Now

Some good advice from Magic Ian (Ed.)

If you have a magic collection, you may want to inventory it, gather up instructions and even price the current value of your items.
Case in point, when Roy Fromer passed away, his wife called me first. Told me to come and get the stuff because she didn't know what to do with it. I had Dan Dyer do that, as I was just too close to Roy to be an executor of his magic.
With Dan's help, he ran a lot of the Fromer pieces thru the Orlando club at the time.
There are a lot of "magic widows" out there whose spouses are alive and well. The term "Magic widow" is the wife of a magician who just doesn't know or even care about the husbands magic. She is a widow long before the magician passes. She (generally it's a she) will wind up calling a thrift shop to come and get it when her husband goes.
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A simple set of instructions and even appointed executor of your magic should be arranged.
I am in the process of arranging my collection which also includes a perpetual resale of manufactured goods. I am leaving production notes on how to prepare and package inventory still in demand and to give a royalty to my wife. Ring 258 just liquidated two estates of magic and held after meeting sales to do so. But, it takes that one friend to properly dispose of it.
Just a thought.