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George Armstrong

(Britain: ? - July, 11th 1985)

Stage name of William George Armstrong Jenkins. Semi-pro performer-publisher. Editor of the Wizard and The Magic Wand periodicals. Became 2nd Lt. in the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 25th February 1943. He bought Pentagram from Peter Warlock in 1949. Left magic in the 1960s to work in the property business (business Transfer and Estate Agents).

Coauthors: George Mackenzie Munro, George Johnson, Chandu

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Chandu's Psychoanalysis by Chandu & George Armstrong

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Here is an entirely new idea in mentalism. Several spectators think of various objects. The performer psycho analyses them and divines the objects being thought of.

  • Positively No Force
  • Any Object Thought Of
  • No Chance Of Failure
  • Performer Is Right Every Time
  • No Skill Required - Just The Ability To Talk
  • Complete With Introductory Lecture and Full Routine That Will Hold The Audience Spellbound

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A short while ago, through the introduction of my good friend Monty Wynne (of the Montagues, the two well-known mentalists of Bournemouth),...

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Chandu & George Armstrong
Chandu's Psychoanalysis (French) by Chandu & George Armstrong

C’est avec une grande fierté que The Mystery Store vous propose pour la première fois en français l’une des toutes premières, si ce n’est LA première, routine de mentalisme psychologique. Créée par Chandu, rédigée par George Armstrong, publiée en 1950, et… à portée de mains (ou de clics…) !

Elle a traversée les années jusqu’à vous, ne nécessitera qu’une très légère mise à jour (notamment en ce qui concerne le script d’introduction de la routine), est facile à faire et donnera l’impression à vos spectateurs que vous analysez réellement leurs réponses...

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George Armstrong
Tricks of the Trade by George Armstrong

If you are familiar with Magician's DIY Tips and Tricks then Tricks of the Trade is written with a very similar idea in mind just 60 years prior. It describes a multitude of DIY tips and gimmicks and improvements for the magician.

It describes things like:

  • How to turn a sock into a billiard ball holder.
  • The two ingredients to make fake beer.
  • How to clean cards.
  • How to make a candle shell.
  • How to make coin holders from pins and safety pins.
  • How to make colored flash paper.
  • etc.
It closes with a section on stage make-up.

1st edition 1949, PDF 22 pages.

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George Armstrong
Premonition: an amazing mental card routine by George Armstrong

[Eddie Joseph and George Armstrong both published this effect in 1949 under the same name: Premonition. The effects are identical and the methods are also pretty much identical except some minor details. Since George Armstrong describes his inspiration and when and where he developed it, while Eddie Joseph does not, I believe George Armstrong to be the inventor of this method. George Armstrong's inspiration was an effect from Greater Magic by Bill McCaffrey. But already Hofzinser has a similar routine Domination of Thought from his Card Conjuring.

A spectator names a card. He is asked to take a pack of cards from the table, remove them...

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George Armstrong
The Magic Wand Volume 46 (1957) by George Armstrong

Numbers 253-256

228 pages

  1. Vol. 46, Part One, Number 253, [1957] [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
  2. editorial comments - George Armstrong
    • Farewell to an Old Friend
    • Magic and Television and News
  3. The Three Shell Game - series by Eddie Joseph
    • Routines
      • The Regular Routine
      • The Riler
      • The Boomerang
  4. The Card Tricks of Gerry Lee - series by Gerard de Bodt
    • The Four Fours Trick
  5. Back-Palm Coin Switch - Mark Weston
  6. Salutations to Robert-Houdin: His Life, Magic, and Automata - series by S. H. Sharpe
    • Section Two - Robert-Houdin, The Arch-Conjurer
      • Robert-Houdin's...
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George Armstrong
The Magic Wand Volume 45 (1956) by George Armstrong

Numbers 249-252

173 pages

  1. Vol. 45, Number 249, March, 1956 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
  2. Extra photo plate page 1 - Winners of the George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
  3. Foreword - George Armstrong
    • The Kalanag Revue
    • The Sorcar Controversy
  4. My Magic - series by Bridger Lewis
    • Rope Through Stick
    • Rope Through Leg
    • Silk Transpo
  5. The Three Shell Game - series by Eddie Joseph
    • The Twin Principle
    • Preparing the Outfit
    • Defining the Principle
  6. The Card Tricks of Jerry [sic] Lee - series by Gerard de Bodt
    • Four Aces and Four Kings
  7. Magic for the Concert Platform Magician - series...
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The Magic Wand Volume 44 (1955) by George Armstrong

Numbers 245-248

285 pages

  1. Vol. 44, Number 245, March, 1955 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
  2. Foreword - George Armstrong
  3. The Zodiac Deck - Vivian St. John
    • A Card Vocabulary
    • Making the Zodiac Deck
    • Any Card Called For
    • The Colour Change Deck
      • To Show the Spot Cards Mixed
      • To Show the Spots All Black
      • To Show the Spots All Red
      • To Show the Backs All Red
      • To Show the Backs All Blue
      • To Show the Backs All Blue with Spots All Black
      • To Show the Backs All Red with Spots All Red
    • The Routine
      • The Brainwave Deck
      • Colour Change Routine
      • Any Card Called...
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The Magic Wand Volume 43 (1954) by George Armstrong

Numbers 241-244

236 pages

  1. Extra photo plate page 1 - The George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
  2. Vol. 43, Number 241, March, 1954 [48 numbered & 16 unnumbered cover, advertising & Index pages]
  3. Foreword - George Armstrong
    • The George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
  4. The Merlini Card System - series by Jim Merlini - continued from V-42
    • "Name O'Card"
      • The Break Cards
      • The Spelling Cards
      • Special Spellers
    • Variations on a Theme
      • Divined by Spelling
      • The Card is Known
      • Behind the Back
  5. For Sleight-of-Hand Enthusiasts - New Four Coin Production - E. Brian MacCarthy
  6. The Conjurer's Table Cover...
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The Magic Wand Volume 42 (1953) by George Armstrong

Numbers 237-240

231 pages

  1. Vol. 42, Number 237, March, 1953 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
  2. Extra photo plate page - The George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
  3. Foreword - by the editor
    • comments about the new format
    • The George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
  4. Excelsior - article by George Johnson
  5. The Merlini Card System - series by Jim Merlini
    • Foreword
    • The Counting Down Principle
      • Card of the Zodiac
    • The Key Card Principle - I. The Merlini Key Card
      • Using the Merlini "Key"
      • Normal Location
      • Shuffling Off and Glimpsing
      • The Force
      • Discarding the Key
      • Convocational...
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The Magic Wand Volume 41 (1952) by George Armstrong

Numbers 233-236

237 pages

  1. Vol. 41, Number 233, March, 1952 [48 numbered & 14 unnumbered cover, advertising & Vol. XL Index pages]
  2. The King is Dead - Long Live the Queen
  3. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • Apparatus Trick Competition
      • First Prize - Monkey Trap - Luigi Ruggeri
      • Second Prize - Chinese Tea Caddy - Arthur F. G. Carter
      • Third Prize - Flash Ribbon Restoration - Tom Sellers
    • Keeping the Record Straight
    • In Father's Footsteps?
  4. An Experiment with Time - Arthur F. G. Carter
  5. The Repeating Fire-Bowl - Will Dexter
  6. Where Was It? - A. C. Newitt
  7. Cord Through Fingers - Luigi Ruggeri (Italy)
  8. Card--Glass and Hat - John...
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The Magic Wand Volume 40 (1951) by George Armstrong

Numbers 229-232

235 pages

  1. Vol. 40, Number 229, March, 1951 [48 numbered & 12 unnumbered cover, advertising pages & Vol. XXXIX Index pages]
  2. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • Thank You
    • So Here We Are
    • Looking Back
  3. Apparatus Trick Competition
    1. Penetrating Pack - R. W. Edwards
    2. "Flash" Ribbon Restoration - Tom Sellers
    3. The Smoked Card - Johnny Geddes
  4. Patter in Rhyme - A. C. Newitt
    • For the "All Backs" Effect - Dai Vernon
    • Routine to Accompany "All Backs" Patter in Rhyme
  5. Hickory Clock - E. Subkleve (Transvaal)
  6. Magically Yours - series by Verrall Wass
    1. Nofors Card in Cigarette
    2. The Spectator Predicts
    3. Purely Co-incidental ...
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The Magic Wand Volume 39 (1950) by George Armstrong

Numbers 225-228

226 pages

  1. Vol. 39, Number 225, March, 1950 [48 numbered & 12 unnumbered cover, advertising pages & Vol. XXXVIII Index pages]
  2. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • The Piddingtons
    • The Birthday Volume
    • The Competitions
    • N.A.M.S.
    • Roundabout
  3. The 'Perfection' Card Rise - John Blunt
  4. Pulse-Beat Mentalism - article by Roy Cowl
  5. Do You Know? - quiz
  6. Miranda Dives - Billie Francis
  7. Sellers Magic - series by Tom Sellers
    • The Ballot Box Colour Force
    • The Rising Cigarette
  8. The Paper Napkins - Percy Bee
  9. The Ring on String Loop - A. C. Newitt
  10. Answers - to the quiz on page 7
  11. Three Tricks - John K. Bays
    • 1. - Super Silk Penetration ...
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George Armstrong
The Magic Wand Volume 38 (1949) by George Armstrong

Numbers 221-224

245 pages

  1. Vol. 38, Number 221, March, 1949 [48 numbered & 16 unnumbered cover, advertising & Vol. XXXVIII Index pages]
  2. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • A Thank You
    • Time for Action
    • Where Does Our Money Go?
  3. The Roundabout - series by Claude Chandler
    • A Pleating Tip
    • Statistics
  4. Mainly for Mentalists - series by Arthur F. G. Carter
    • The Psychic Ace Prediction
  5. Bottle Baffle! - Wilfred H. Tyler
  6. Transposition Extraordinaire - Paul Sleight (Belgium)
    • The (Biseautee) Direct Palm
  7. Lighting a "Spent" Match - Victor Farelli
    • Effect as Seen by the Audience
    • Origin of the Devices Employed
    • Preparation ...
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The Magic Wand Volume 37 (1948) by George Armstrong

Numbers 217-220

254 pages

  1. Vol. 37, Number 217, March, 1948 [48 numbered & 18 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
  2. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • A Word of Thanks
    • Resolutions
    • Hotel Entertainment
    • What is Wrong?
    • Opening Effects
    • Reading Matter
    • Three New Series
  3. Magical Publications and The General Public - article by Bill Bishop
  4. Mainly for Mentalists - A New Series by Arthur F. G. Carter
    • Psychological Forces
  5. Tray Trix - A New Series by Verrall Wass
    • Stripe=O!
    • The Laughing Buddha
  6. The Roundabout - series by Claude Chandler
  7. The Magic Letter Box - correspondence
  8. Letters to a Collector -...
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The Magic Wand Volume 36 (1947) by George Armstrong

Numbers 213-216

261 pages

  1. Vol. 36, Number 213, March-May, 1947 [48 numbered & 12 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
  2. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • Magic for the Amateur
    • The Dealers
    • Our New Artist
    • Magical Broadcasts
    • Indian Magic
    • The Tribulations of a Publisher
  3. Colour Changing Water - P. C. Sorcar (India)
  4. The Roundabout - article by Claude Chandler
  5. The Princess and The Pirate - Lamonte
  6. The Appendix to Robert-Houdin's "Confidences" - translated by S. H. Sharpe
    • General Programme of the Experiments Invented and Performed During the Course of my Representations
    • The Inexhaustible Bottle
  7. Mug's Game...
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George Mackenzie Munro & George Johnson & George Armstrong
The Magic Wand (1910 - 1957) by George Mackenzie Munro & George Johnson & George Armstrong

Martin Breese purchased the copyright to the Magic Wand many years ago. He intended to issue material from the magazine in book form and was little to know, at the time, of the advent of digital publishing and ebooks.

The Magic Wand was first published in September 1910 and continued for 256 issues until December of 1957. It began as a monthly magazine and after a decade it was published quarterly. It was edited by George Munro who was succeeded by George Armstrong. It is rare and very hard to find a complete run. The most valuable issues are those containing the serial publication of The Annals of Conjuring. ...

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George Armstrong
Wizard Magazine Volume 5-8 (Jul 1951 - Jul 1956) by George Armstrong

These are the second four volumes of the Wizard Magazine as a PDF which you can download. It includes a hyperlinked index.

1st edition July 1951 - July 1956; 1733 pages.

Volume 5
  • No. 49
    • George Armstrong / Charles Cole
    • Geomental Rayond / Two Person Mentalism
    • Dennis Barnes / Opening to a 4 Ace Routine
    • O.H. Patterson / My Rings on Rope
    • Len Belcher / My Card Stab
    • Tom Sellers / Simplex Card Prediction
    • John K. Bays / Famous Magicians
    • A.C. Newitt / Why Use the Pass
    • Harry Thomas, Max Linden / The Tomlin Coin Box
    • Jack Lamonte / Opening for the Egg Bag Routine
    • Philcardo / Bouquet for...
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Wizard Magazine Volume 1-4 (Apr 1947 - Jun 1951) by George Armstrong

These are the first four volumes of the Wizard Magazine as a PDF which you can download. It includes a hyperlinked index.

1st edition April 1947 - June 1951; 1595 pages.

Volume 1
  • No. 1
    • George Armstrong / Jasper Maskelyne
    • George Armstrong / Impromptu Book Test
    • John K. Bays / Fantasy Fare
    • W.J. Stapleton / Milestones of Magic
  • No. 2
    • George Armstrong / Robert Harbin
    • George Armstrong / Number Prediction
    • John K. Bays / No No Children's Effect
    • W.J. Stapleton / Milestones of Magic 1
  • No. 3
    • George Armstrong / Wilfred Tyler
    • Wilfred Tyler / Breakaway Match-box
    • John K. Bays / Flash...
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George Armstrong
Wizard Magazine (1947 - 1956) by George Armstrong

The Wizard was one of Britain's leading magic magazines and was published by George Armstrong between 1947 and 1956. There were 95 issues containing more than 3000 pages. Here is the entire run as searchable PDF, including a hyperlinked index.

It contains 945 effects, articles and features on every aspect of magic from hundreds of prominent contributors including: Billy McComb, Al Koran, Jack Lamonte, Ken Brooke, Arthur Carter, Chandhu, Milbourne Christopher, Carlos Colombi, Edward Dexter, Prince Drakon, Hen Fetsch, Douglas Francis, Lewis Ganson, Louis Histed, Jack Hughes, Roy Johnson, Fred Lowe, Max Malini, Jay Palmer, Edmund Rowland, S.H. Sharpe, Hans Trixer, Verrall Wass, Mark Weston and Jack Yates.

1st edition 1947-1956; 3328...

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