A long time ago Chris Kenworthy bought out a force deck which I thought was fantastic.  You could fan the entire deck of cards and show the index of every single card and then turn the fanned deck over and force a card by having them just touch the back of any card which when turned over was in fact the force card.  

A lot magicians went to work to make up these decks using wire wool and stick on indices and it was only when the Monte Cristo deck was made available together with a little of its history that I discovered that the method and the deck itself was something that went back in time.

The man who has just had this deck made in bicycle cards has written up a little of its history as follows:

The Monte Cristo Pack or ("Peerless Monte-Cristo Cards") is a Forcing Deck developed by Henry Hardin, produced by Theodore DeLand and put on the market in December 1908. As advertised in 1909, "One of the card hits of the century, the nearest approach to the supernatural yet discovered, a spectator looks at any card in the deck and suite name, etc., is found written on a piece of paper in a sealed envelope in another spectator's possession." A later development of the deck was the Telomatic Deck and was an early version of the Tossed Out Deck.  References: • Edwards Monthly, Vol. 1. No. 1, Feb 1909 • 202 Methods of Forcing by Theodore Annemann (1933) • Conjurers' Magazine, Vol 1, No. 1 , Feb, 1945

I am selling this deck and the instructions as a special service to my customers at the special price of £22.50 plus postage and once my stock has gone that will be it.

SOLD OUT