The Art of Magic is featured in a set of five stamps. Illusions can be broken down into several major categories, including production, mental phenomena, defiance of natural laws, vanishing, and transformation. The stamp issuance features these exploits with classic representations: a rabbit in a top hat (production), a fortune teller using a crystal ball (prediction), a woman floating in air (levitation), an empty bird cage (vanishing), and a bird emerging from a flower (transformation).

Crystal balls used for fortune telling are known as far back as 2000 B.C. The Druids used the approach to unite the Celtic tribes to unit and work together as a community. The Middle Ages saw a great number of fortune tellers, in the form of wizards, sorcerers, seers, and gypsies.