What's the name of this toy?

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What's the name of this toy?

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This is a silly question, but I don't have any one else to ask it to.

When I was a child there was someone in my block who had a toy like this, it is made of two pieces that are joined by some elastic bands, on one side they form an "X" and in the other side they're parallel. You place a picture or a bank note in one side and then you show it to the other person and by "magic" the photo changes to the other side. Recently I found out my little nieces have one of those, it looks like this:

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So does anyone know the name of this toy?
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jacobs ladder? variation of it maybe
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Magic Wallet, based on Jacob's Ladder. :)
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Thanks for your replies.
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There is actually a tutorial to make an origami version of that somewhere, I forget where though.
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one of my friends has one of those!
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I first saw such a thing under the name of a reversable wallet.

I've also had a toy like that though with more panels and it was called a jacobs ladder.
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