Clatter box

This is a very comical effect and if you do this for kids they'll be on the floor laughing ... (parents too). You take careful (because you say it's a tad old box) a wooden box and opens it. There's a cloth in. You pull the cloth out and ask a child or other spectator to hold the box for you. Then cancels the tissue (eg with a changeerzak). You told the cloth appeared in the box. You ask the child to gently (because it is so old and heeeel expensive ...) to open the box. At the time the child is put falls open the box the whole box from each other on the ground. Everything is broken, the bottom, sides, everything. But .... the child has the lid still stuck with it disappeared cloth. Applause (and sadness ...) Of course, you can use the box for the next performance again.