It is very unusual to find a Lambert conjurer automaton in Elizabethen-style costume, rather than the smoking jacket and waistcoat they normally wore. Another conjurer wearing an identical costume was included in an auction in Galerie de Chartes in October 1999. The costume on this automaton is probably an old replacement copied directly from the original pattern using antique fabric.

The style of the costume is much closer to Lambert's Mephistopheles, which wears a similar doublet with slashed sleeves and red boots. The papier-mâché head of the Mephistopheles has the same features to the heads used on these magician automata, and was presumably produced from the same mould.

Lambert advertised several styles of magician automata, including a clown holding a wand and a single cup, and a black conjurer with two cups. The conjurer with two cups was one of the largest and most complex pieces produced by Lambert.