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).

One of the traditional tricks is for the magician to make someone or something disappear, such as a person (magician’s assistant) or, as this stamp shows, a bird from a cage.