Magic & Conjuring: page 160

Bob Farmer has gimmicked, treated, and modified playing cards for decades to achieve his various clever effects using gimmicked and gaffed decks and cards. He has collected a number of very useful ways to treat cards for various purposes. This manuscript outlines several processes and procedures and informs you about all the necessary tools and supplies and where to get them.

Included is Bob's Hallucination 2.0 effect which is an improvement of Eddie Clever's Hallucination routine first published in the Jinx in November 1934.

• INTRODUCTION
• PACKET TRICKS
  • Step 1: Protective Spray
  • Step 2: Ptfe Powder ...

• Jack-In-The-Box: A playing card is selected by a spectator and ripped into four pieces. The pieces are paper clipped and set on top of a jack-in-the-box. The handle is turned, the familiar tune played, and the clown pops up. When he does, the selected card appears fully restored in the clown's hands.
• Silver Fire: When the magician lights a cigarette lighter, a half dollar appears. Light it again, and the coin vanishes. Light the lighter a third time, and the half-dollar reappears from within a cigar tube.
• Les Fleurs: A bouquet of flowers magically appears in the magician's top hat. With...

• Safety Catch
• Candle To Streamers: An 18” lit, white candle changes into a brilliant burst of white paper throw streamers.
• Candle To Sword: An 18” white candle is lit. In a shower of sparks, it magically changes into a 36” gleaming Chinese sword.
• Candle To Fan: An 18” white candle vanishes in a sparkle of light, turning into a 24” Chinese dragon fan that dramatically opens in a shower of confetti.
• Invisiclip
• Invisiclip: Torn & Restored Card: A playing card is selected and ripped into four pieces. The pieces are paper clipped together. A magical wave of the hand, and the pieces...

Twelve tried, tested and proven, practical tricks that you will delight in using in your club and stage shows.

The apparatus requires no complicated mechanical ability to produce. Nor is great skill required to perform. Previously sold for the equivalent of more than $16.00 in today's money.

Contents:

Silversion: A borrowed coin is passed into a hermetically sealed bottle. Both may be examined.

Cheerio Glass: A complete disappearance of a 4-inch tumbler. No trick tables or tubes.

Squaring the Square: A unique effect with a piece of paper and a pair of scissors.

Count of Monte...

A simple system of memorizing playing cards.

You can memorize quickly at sight every card in the sequence played and know the cards in each trick and what cards have not been played. Excerpt from the introduction:

• The Advantage Of Card Memory
• The Laws Of...

The performer chooses three spectators from the audience and asks them to choose numbers. There are so many effects like this. The news is that, finally, I managed to insert the Fibonacci series into an effect. Then I had to work on the screenplay to avoid noticing the only moment in which I "see" the audience numbers: but I think I succeeded.

Basically, for collaborators and the public, I give them a sheet, I have them write numbers, and then do various calculations; at the end, I use the number they obtained for other calculations, using a second principle. In the end, if I've been a...

A video catalog of 18 of Michael's top-selling magic effects. Demonstrations only. The effects presented are:

• Animated Origami Bill
• Beach Memories
• Big Coins
• Candle Rewind
• Cane Fire
• Chinese Appearing Sword
• Chinese Fans
• Chinese Lucky Envelope
• Cool Coil and Silver Coil
• Fanfire
• Firefall
• Fire Flower Rose Coil
• Fire to Silk
• Hot Coil
• Spitfire
• Sponge Poker
• 20-oz Production

video 8:32

Hints, aids and appliances for the professional and amateur magician.

These small "aids" to the magician appeared in early numbers of The Magic Wand. Covering many branches of the art, it is hoped that the various gadgets may prove of service. The publisher again expresses his thanks to the contributors who devised, and used, the appliances.

• Cards
  • Wire Stands and Supports
  • Card Indicator
  • Card Discovery
  • Card Standing on Edge
  • Card Reading
  • Quite an Old Trick
  • A Card Vanish
  • A Card Trick
  • An Easy Card Trick
• Coins
  • A Coin Producing Fake
  • Vanishing Penny
  • Coin Box
  • A Coin Move
  • A Coin and a Tumbler ...

This is a disarmingly simple yet baffling effect suitable for a close-up or parlor show. A simple cardboard tube is placed on the table and lifted to reveal that inside it is an inverted wine glass with a large red ball on top of it. The tube is freely displayed and can be examined by a spectator. The performer's hands are otherwise empty.

The tube is placed on the table and the inverted wine glass is dropped down inside. Finally, the ball is dropped into the tube so that it rests again on the base of the glass. A snap of the fingers and the tube is immediately lifted off again to reveal...

En février-mars 2020, Pascal Marc a envoyé Michael P. Lair pour une tournée de conférences magiques dans 13 villes d'Europe. Michael a créé ses notes en francais de cours 'Voyage’ pour cette tournée. Elles comprennent 10 routines de magie standup de Michael, avec un mélange de vieux favoris et de nouveaux effets.

Si vous aimez la magie standup avec un jeton de poker, une balle éponge, des Red Bulls, un Jack in the Box, des bougies Fantasio, des allumettes, un poisson diseuse de bonne aventure, une corde, une bague, des pièces de 10 cents, des grosses pièces et une carte 24...

In February-March 2020, Pascal Marc sent Michael P. Lair on a 13-city magic lecture tour of Europe. Michael created his lecture notes Journey for this tour. They include 10 of Michael's standup magic routines featuring a mix of old favorites and brand-new effects.

If you enjoy standup magic with a poker chip, sponge ball, Red Bulls, a Jack in the Box, Fantasio candles, matches, a Fortune Teller Fish, rope, a ring, dimes, big coins, and a torn and restored 24 x 36" map, then you will love Journey. The notes are fully color photo illustrated.

• Sponge Poker
• Red Cola
• Jack in the Box
• Candle...

Mental Assassin is a mind-reading effect that fits inside your wallet that can be performed anytime, anywhere. In Summary, this is what the routine looks like:

1. Mentalist hands out a card containing different words.
2. Spectator freely chooses a word.
3. Spectator performs visualization test.
4. Mentalist is able to divine the chosen word.

• No Fishing
• No Force
• Different Word every time

1st edition 2018, PDF 7 pages.

The "Seven times Petrick" series was released in seven volumes, each with seven tricks covering a different subject, and each with a different color cover. This is the purple one.

• Lipstick Levitation: Selected card placed against the outside of the filled card box rises over the deck.
• Balloon Penny-Tration: Penetration of a penny into an empty, blown-up balloon.
• The Shrinking Card: A card is selected from a regular deck which transforms into a miniature deck. The selected card is replaced in the miniature deck only to transform into a random card.
• Strange Change: A card is selected,...

You show a piece of white paper on both sides and fold it into a neat package. Instantly and visibly the paper turns into a banknote which can be unfolded, displayed on both sides, and importantly, can be immediately handed out for examination or be spent. Devised in the early 1980s, this version of instant money printing is totally practical and very magical. The fact that the printed note can be examined is a huge plus and helps to increase the effectiveness of the illusion.

1st edition 2017, PDF 2 pages.

Here are twelve remarkable card tricks invented and performed by Stewart James in Canada, England and the U.S. So many magicians asked to learn these tricks that Stewart decided to reveal them for the first time in this book. Most all of his card magic is done without difficult sleights or trick cards, using subtlety instead.

CONTENTS:

MIKE AND IKE: — The famous look-alike detectives capture a gang of criminals and identify their leader. A spectator (witness) doesn't tell how the sleuths are disguised until the case is closed.

SEVEN WONDERS — No preparation is necessary to illustrate...

When Teller saw this he said: "A work of mad genius."

Here at the Mad Genius Institute (MGI) we spend our days chasing the elusive butterfly of love and when we realize it's just another of the many delusions that sent us here in the first place, we get back to our real work: creating mind-bending magic so far outside the box it's a long-distance call to reality.

What happens when you decide to use not one or two Chop Cups but three? Three Chop Cups and three magnetic balls: you can't get farther from the mundane than that.

• Phase 1: Ball vanishes and appears in a Crown Royal bag. ...

Lubor Fiedler's famous dental dam illusion principle is applied to a variety of tricks and routines, not just the penetration of a coin through a rubber sheet. The only sad part here is that the name Lubor Fiedler cannot be found anywhere in this publication. No credit was given.

Excerpt from the introduction by Walter Gibson:

The magician displays a random mix of ten cards, all spot cards and a single Ace of Spades. He explains these cards are used in a game called, "Ten Card Poker Slam" - with just ten cards cheating is impossible. The cards are mixed face down and dealt in a row. The magician and the spectator take turns selecting cards until each has five cards.

The magician reveals his hand: four 2s and an Ace of Spades - Four of a Kind - BUT - - - The spectator's hand is a Straight Flush in diamonds, 6D, 7D, 8D, 9D and 10D - and a Straight Flush beats Four of a Kind, so the magician has the losing hand....

In fesselnder Darstellungsweise gibt der Verfasser Kenntnis von dem Leben und der künstlerischen Bedeutung von mehreren berühmten Zauberkünstlern des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts. Behandelt werden Philadelphia, Döbler, Bosco, Houdin, Bellachini und Houdini.

Erstausgabe 1936, 31 Seiten; PDF 23 Seiten.

For those who wish to fool those who know all the other gaffed montes (Skinner's, Deland's "Pickitout," the British "Chase the Ace"), the "Bammo Queen Monte" is here and ready to serve.

Those other versions use two gaffed cards, the Bammo Queen Monte does not - which means that there are deceptive displays possible that the others cannot match.

There is no sleight of hand: the special cards do all the work.

The entire routine happens on the table just like the real monte. Alternately, for maximum visibility, larger cards can be used with some card holders.

Three cards are shown,...

The trials, tricks and travels of Carl Hertz the famous American illusionist.

A highly readable and informative autobiography that takes Carl Hertz around the globe. Hertz was born as Leib Morgenstein in San Francisco, the son of Russian and Polish immigrants. He started with showbusiness in Northern California at a young age and had initially little success. Nevertheless, Carl Hertz went on to create a distinguished international career as a stage illusionist and debunker of fraudulent mediums and other scammers.

CHAPTER I
My boyhood - Fascination which conjuring has for me - I am discharged...

You, too, can be a stage hypnotist!

A monumental work devoted to the performance of stage hypnotism, written by a close confidant of Dunninger. Contains not only individual tests, but a complete two-hour show, as well. Written by an experienced operator (and owner of a stage hypnotic show), this course provides authentic instructions for performing a complete evening's entertainment.

The libraries of many seasoned professionals are incomplete, as they do not have this book in their collection. With this new revised edition, it's priced so reasonably that now virtually any interested magician, mentalist...

This psychological reading allows most anyone to present a convincing demonstration of palmistry, even if they've never read palms before.

Thayer originally sold this Larsen title as a manuscript in their catalog (Item No. 1394). Now once again available in this expanded and updated book edition, the original content has been supplemented with new features to make it even more complete.

Understand, this is not a trick, but a stock reading that you can easily memorize and give to any person without further study. Use it to supplement, dramatically, your usual readings. Or if you're entirely...

Transform a cap from a Sharpie pen into a sponge ball and back. The gimmick is easy to make, the rest are basic sleight-of-hand maneuvres.

1st edition 2023, video 9:30