Magic & Conjuring: page 332

On November 2012 the first European Close-up Magic Symposium brought 20 magicians from all over the world to Milan for 2 days of non-stop close-up magic, with lectures and performances, private sessions and gala shows. The routines in this issue selects among the best routines. Expect some knuckle busters as most of the contributors in this issue are some of the best names in the close-up magic. All routines are complete with performance and explanation.

DANI DAORTIZ: "Forcing card"
One of the best cardicians of our time shows us and explains a beautiful routine with detailed explanation teaching every...

The ace assembly effect is a plot that has been done to death in the annals of card magic. The following is my version of an ace assembly effect with a twist at the end. The method is so simple that even a beginner can master and perform it.

Four aces are dealt face down next to each other. Three indifferent cards are added to each pile. The magician says that he will attempt to move all the aces from the different piles into one pile. After some mumbo jumbo, the aces have disappeared from three of the piles. When the fourth pile is turned over, to everyone's surprise, it contains ... the...

• End of Year
• Market to Market
• Creativity
• Intentionally Revealed Trick
• Personal Library
• Chain Letter / Email
• Pandemic Impact

1st edition 2020, 10 pages.

This was the catalog for Max Holden's Magic Shop. He had two stores, one in New York City, and one in Boston. He specialized in books. The 8 issues run from 1948 to 1951.

PDF 36 pages.

The master of the 'impossible' folded card reveals how you can incorporate initials into your designs, allowing you to personalize these unique one-of-a-kind give-aways.

The special folded cards include the initials of you or your spectator or anybody else for that matter. Create an impossible gift you can hand out as a souvenir. You get the video instruction and the templates (see the digital shelf). Ralf also teaches you how to change the initials seen in the templates. Below you see one design example.

1st edition 2020, video length 31 min.

Take two cards, fold them length-wise, and stab one card into another. (Gimmick requires elastic thread.)

1st edition 2020, video length 10:14.

A collection of basic information about circuses small and big, their names and when they were in operation.

• War Time Circus
• Shows Harry Bowman was connected with
• Famous Firsts in Circus History
• Circus Wrecks and Accidents
• Circuses and Tent Shows (in alphabetical order)

1st edition 1942, 31 pages; PDF 75 pages.

This is a marvelous ebook on mostly sleight-less card magic. The only skills you will need to bring to these effects are presentational. Pros will tell you the presentational aspect of a trick is more difficult to master than any sleight or move. That probably is true, however, these effects have been selected and re-worked so as to have built-in impact so that your presentation can even be as direct as simply stating exactly what you are doing. This is the most basic form of presentation, but it remains effective for those who do not have the creativity or inherent comedy to develop entertaining...

"Within the inner circle of coin magic, the work of Giacomo Bertini has been known and respected for years." - Stephen Minch

1st edition 2020, length 10 min 20s.

GIACOMO BERTINI: "Cylinder & Chips"
This is his easy version of the famous coin routine. Giacomo uses poker chips instead of coins and his own gimmick, which you can buy from him. He created this routine for professional use, such as when working at event dinners, and in any difficult situation, anywhere. The effect is amazing, like the classical version, but in this case, the routine is really easy to perform, and the hands are really empty, in front of the spectators. Very beautiful routine for stand-up workers. Beginner level.

DARYL: "The Manly Matrix"
This is a wonderful version of the classic...

On November 12th and 13th 2011 the second European Coin Magic Symposium brought 16 magicians from all over the world to Milan for two days of non-stop coin magic, with lectures and performances, private sessions and gala shows. The routines in this issue is a selection of the best. They were shot live at the symposium, and they are very impressive and strong. Expect some knuckle busters as most of the contributors in this issue are the best names in the Coin Magic genre. All routines are complete with performance and explanation.

GIACOMO BERTINI: "Matrix Colors"
You can see this amazing...

Robert Walker was a unicycling, high-school student. Looking five years younger than he was, he was a dyed-in-the-wool card guy tutored in Marlovian ways. He was also a precocious writer-creator, obsessed with false counts and packet tricks. He spent many hours "twisting the night away," taking voluminous notes, and developing new methods and approaches. His first mini-treatise dissected a marketed packet trick by Larry West ("Wild, Wild West") which he passed onto Jon Racherbaumer to publish. It became the second installment of the loose-leaf Avatar, printed on pink paper and unadorned by illustrations...

A seemingly "impossible" book test.

George Arrowsmith wrote:

Visual movement of holes on a playing card.

Show a playing card which has random holes in it. This is best done by putting it in front of a light source, such as your phone's screen. In an instant the holes rearrange to something meaningful. It could be a simple image, the name of a card, a spectator name, a date, anything you can think of. It is a great way to reveal a prediction.

1st edition 2020, video length 17 min.

It's not a trick, it's a system ... Imagine that you have an option to change the color of a freely chosen and signed card. Mario Tarasini introduces his new portable flap system. You can place a special portable flap system on any card to immediately change its color and hand it over to the spectator.

1st edition 2020, video length 10 min 51 s.

The magazine presented magic and allied subjects to the general public with a strong leaning towards the entertainment and recreational side rather than the scientific or philosophical. It stated in its first issue:

Number 1

• What a Conjurer...

A magazine of romance and reason: magic, mystery, spiritism and psychical research for entertainment and recreation.

• Directions for Seeing the Spectres
• Publisher's Prologue / Ernest Evangeline
• Spectral Illusions
• Threading the Mazes / Rhode Knight
• The Sphinx Riddle of Humanity / Henry Ridgely Evans
• An Afternoon in a Magical Library / Ernest Evangeline
• How I Became a Spirit Medium / A Medium

1st edition 1910, 20 pages.

In August of 1963, Dai Vernon took a twenty-hour bus trip from Los Angeles to Dallas, Texas, to deliver a lecture at the Statler Hilton Hotel.

On the way there, Vernon created an amazing effect, an effect that is relatively unknown, even today. Shortly thereafter, Vernon advertised the trick for sale.

A story trick is one of the best effects one can do for lay people. See for example, Bill Malone's success with "Sam the Bellhop". Kent Gunn has altered the recipe of the story trick by adding a couple of card tricks in the middle of the story, which adds a new twist to the genre. Kent feels that it is is the best-received piece he has ever come up with. He also provides advice on how to come up with your own story, which ultimately is the best way to go.

("There and Back Again" was formerly known as "I Left My Heart in San Francisco".)

• There and Back Again
• Derek Delgaudio's Truffle Shuffle ...

A beautiful color change made popular in the 70s by Walter Cummings. A fan of cards is waved in front of the rest of the pack, causing the face card to change in a dramatic fashion.

1st edition 2020, PDF 4 pages, video 47s.

• The Prize Winner Rope Trick
• Patter For Any Newspaper Trick
• The Care Of Celluloid Gimmicks
• A Bit Of Patter For The Snake In The Basket, Snake That Unties Itself Or Any Other Snake Trick
• Charlie Levett's Idea On The Miracle Egg Trick
• The Patriotic Illusion
• The Utility Loaf Of Bread
• Are You Psychic?
• Earl Morgan's Rising Elame
• Ed Marlo's Simple Dice Routine
• High Caliber Production
• How To Wind And Tie A Turban
• Old Sour Puss
• Laurie Ireland's Blindfold Poker Deal
• You Always Have A Handkerchief......!
• The Little Bunny That Eats!
• The Brassiere
• The Little Hindu
• Miss Fatima
• Dr. Finkle's...

• An Opening Effect
• Predetermined Thought
• A Different Die-Box
• Organ Pipe Flower Growth
• Stretching A Rope
• Stretching A Rope
• Ring And Loop
• Die And Rope
• Unique Cut Rope
• Practical Living And Dead Test
• Thimble Through Hat
• Simple Cigarette Catching
• Ropes And Ring
• Duplex Fish-Bowl Production
• A Sum Prediction
• A Production Box Idea
• A Broken Match
• The T.S. Production Box
• Glass Penetration
• A Magazine Test

• Foreword
• The Disjointed Finger
• Ashes Of The Sun
• Block And Ribbon Penetration
• More Beads On A String
• Burnt And Restored
• Tape Through The Wrist
• Sympathetic Light
• A Ring Release
• A New Thumb Tie
• Coin And Handkerchief
• Cut And Restored Rope
• Easy Diminishing Cards
• Impromptu Card Rising
• Two Person Card Code
• The Penetrative Coins
• Novel Re-Appearing Coin
• Silent Change-Over For Several Coins
• Ace-King Passe Passe
• The "T.S." Glass Penetration
• A Good-Night Cigar

1st edition 1943, 20 pages; PDF 19 pages.

This ebook teaches solutions to the following problem Rusduck posed in the late 1950s:

Arguably the best rendition of this type of effect is the Bloom Miracle Poker Machine.

These are very similar requirements to the Fitch Cheney Five-Card Trick. But they are not identical. In the Fitch Cheney trick the performer selects the one card out of the five given to him which his assistant needs to identify...