Paper & Paper Money

1st edition, 1944, New York; 17 pages.

3. Introduction
4. Requirements
4. Blossoms
4. Outside leaves or petals (calyx)
4. Springs
4. Spring reinforcements
4. Stems
4. Stem leaves
4. Stem wrappings
5. Folding the blossom
6. Preparing the stem
6. Cutting and shaping the spring
9. Mounting the spring on stem
9. Fitting the blossom on...

In addition . . . Dave has added as a bonus another non-magical competition that he used for over a decade to decide who would be given his Giant Balloon Reindeer.

1st edition 2019, 2 pages.

1st edition 2015, 4 pages.

This is a time-tested routine that's made even better by using genuine currency (which you supply) while you follow these illustrated instructions. But that's not all. You also get additional presentation ideas, plus a template for constructing your own Repeat Bills outfit with whatever denomination of currency you wish. ...

1st edition, April...

Table of Contents

3. Content

   Presentation

4. Natural
5. Comedy
5. Mysterious

   Paper Magic

5. The Torn and Restored Paper
9. The Blotting Pad Mystery
14. The Phantom Rings
17. The Torn and Restored Newspaper
19. Ching Ling Foo's Paper
22. The Snowstorm

    The History of Magic (part 2)

24. Magic in the Middle Ages

1st edition 1931; 26 pages.

How would you like to be able to magnetize currency? Well, now, you can create the illusion of doing so in just one second. With Magnetic Money by mentalist Mike Kempner, you will be able to instantly (in a matter of one second) demonstrate to your spectator that you are able to magnetize currency, and the best...

Bring a child up to help and say, "We need a special hat and a magic wand". From then on it's NON-STOP laughter. Magician brings out what appears to be a toilet plunger and places it on the...

The four impossible cards taught are:

• Basic Fold: Here you will learn one of the basic folds...

• Circled: A particularly beautiful and super easy fold.
• P'linked
• Holed
• Hyper Variation
• Ezy Fold
• Interlocked

1st edition 2014, length 25 min

• The performer makes a paper fir tree - and then actually climbs it
• A cabinet is made from paper - shown empty - and a girl crashes through it from apparently nowhere
• A paper bag escape...

13 pages

1. A Domino Trick
2. 20th Century Ribbons
3. Ribbon Rings
4. Card ’N' Silk
5. 20th Century Silks
6. Cones Of Color
7. Silk Monte
8. Flower Cascade
9. Rainbow Silks
10. Magic Welding Ribbon
11. Dried Milk
12. Tissue Mickey
13. Happy Birthday ...

1st edition 1987, 8 pages; 1st digital edition 2017, PDF 9 pages.

You'll be taken step-by-step in this instructional video as you learn to make The Paper Paradox (without any complicated origami folds) for your own fun (and/or marketing). You'll also receive an MSWord template for customizing to your own message (download from the digital shelf). Prospects sure keep this puzzle longer and show it to more people than any business card.

1st edition 2018, length 6 min 30 s.

Illustrated by Bob Gunther, former Disney animator, the moves are cleanly and clearly depicted, as if the authors were teaching them to you over drinks at their favorite watering hole.

Partial contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Basic...

The signed selected card is lost in the deck. You take the bill and throw the bill onto the deck, visually the bill disappears. You go through the deck to find the selected card which has fused with the bill. You can then give the card to the spectator for examination.

1st edition 2016, length 18min

A playing card visually turns into a bill. Very easy to do when you have the gimmick in your hand.

1st edition 2016, length 18 min

You too should know at least one trick with a paper cup for the next discussion at the water cooler.

1st edition 1942; 26 pages.

3. Introduction
5. Liquid Vanishing Cup:...

Each tear is accompanied by patter to teach many spiritual truths. Although not magic by itself, this material is appropriate to be considered by the gospel magician.

1st edition 1921; 27 pages.

A paper-tearing routine makes an entertaining contrast in a magical act, especially when the program is lengthy as in the case of many programs for children. The following paper tears are not offered as original material. The routine and Patter-to-Rhyme is. The paper tears are well known and many performers may be already acquainted with them, but for the benefit of those who are not, the manuscript offers simple directions and suggestions...

Effect: Draw a wrong prediction of a playing card on a sticky note pad. The chosen card rises out of the same picture. Give it away as an impossible souvenir.

1st edition 2014, length 28 min 26 sec.

1st edition 1983, 8 pages; 1st digital edition 2018, 7 pages.

A prize winning paper folding and cutting routine with only a double sheet of newspaper and a pair of scissors.

The routine utilizes all the paper producing a whole succession of objects while you are telling an amusing story. In the introduction Ken de Courcy writes:

THE CHINAMAN'S PAPER CAPER is a most satisfying trick. To begin with, it is unusual because it utilises all of the paper. Second, it requires just one 'double' sheet of newspaper, and a pair of scissors. Third, in case you think our enthusiasm has run riot, it has already won two awards in America; "The Magic Dungeon Academy Trophy for...

You'll thrill to the simplicity of the method. And the cunning of it. Listen to the details of the first effect ... and the others are equally convincing, equally baffling.

Note in Balloon. An inflated balloon is shown and placed to one side. A dollar bill of any value you prefer is borrowed from a member of the audience who himself notes...

"A cool and animated levitation of a card or dollar bill... EASY TO MAKE!"

However, it was also a genuine stepping stone in the thought processes that would eventually lead to Enlightenment: The Ultimate Floating Card - which is way superior. So, controversial...

1st edition, 1937 Max Holden, New York; 62 pages.

3. Introduction
4. Chapter 1: Preliminary Preparation
7. Chapter 2: Sleights, Switches
16. Chapter 3: Vanishes
19. Chapter 4: Impromptu Tricks with...

Paradoxical Oddities
A packet of cards, the twenty cards making up a royal flush, is given to a spectator to shuffle. The spectator then chooses one of the values (say, for example, Jacks), and the cards mixed so that some are face up and some face down. The packet is further mixed by the spectator, eventually being divided into...

runtime: 15min 31s

runtimet 6min 44s

The three impossible objects taught are:

• Braided Bills: Two bills are cut, folded and woven together.
• Inside-Out Banknote: An individual bill is cut an folded in a way that looks completely impossible.
• Braided Pyramid: You fold one bill into a pyramid shape and then...

• Pleated Bill
• Pleated Bill Variation
• Shrinking Banknote
• Diamond Pyramid
• Multi Folded Bill

length 27 min

• Impossible 8
• Interlocking Banknotes
• Impossible Ring on Cardboard

length 21 min

In this video you will learn two "secret" folding techniques to make your impossible folding collection more impossible! No hidden cuts or glue are involved. You can give the cards (or banknotes) right away as an impossible souvenir.

• The Trapdoor Fold
• The Circled Queen
• Trapdoor Fold with a Star
• Backwards Fold

1st edition 2015, length 27 min

The label changes to another one while it is under the plastic cover of the notebook. This is great for the back to school crowd.

1st edition 2016, length 12 minutes.

After the newspaper is torn into small pieces, the magician blows on the pieces. The rough edges of the paper are seen to get smooth, and upon opening the newspaper out, it is restored. But wait, only half the paper is there. The other half falls to the floor.

The audience thinks they are the torn pieces. The packet...

A magical inspiration that comes once in a blue moon. A sensation of the I.B.M. and S.A.M. conventions. After you've read the following effect, you'll say it's impossible. And so will your audience, when they see you perform this bill tear.

Effect: The performer reaches into his wallet and removes a dollar bill. To preclude the possibility of exchange or duplicates, the performer requests someone in the audience to mark the bill in any manner they wish. His hands are carefully shown to be empty. There is no...

Many club performers would like to do a large production, but are reluctant to carry the large apparatus usually necessary for such a production. The Devil’s Newspaper is the answer to this problem. Although this item packs flat in your case, it none the less, holds a large load.

This is real appealing magic as a double-sheet of newspaper is seen flat on your table. It is picked up and shown in a slow and deliberate manner. Yet, when...

You show an unprepared dollar bill and fold it into quarters. At the folded corner of the bill you tear off a section, as shown on the cover photo. The audience plainly sees the missing section. Placing the small torn piece into your mouth, you blow it at the bill. Instantly, the bill is restored, pulled...

And now for an encore, you decide to mark the handkerchief so the owner will recognize...

Do you remember the simple origami fold called "the salt cellar"? Well, Ken de Courcy in this manuscript teaches you how to use that simple fold for performing wonderful magic tricks. Ken says:

"In the 1956 edition of Robert Harbin's "Paper Magic" (beautifully illustrated by Rolf Harris) you will find an easily-made paper model titled "The Salt Cellar...Magic Colour Changer". It's a paper-fold that goes back many years; in fact, in 1948, Ernie Kob marketed an amusing use...

• Slalom
• Outlet
• Quarters
• Linking Triangles
• Tri-Clops

1st edition 2015, length 27 min

[Note: This compilation overlaps with Ralf Rudolph's earlier series of impossible foldings (1-6). There are some new things here and not everything from the six volumes is taught here, but there is a good amount of overlap.]

You will learn:

• Trabdoor Fold
• Trabdoor "E" Fold
• "V" Fold
• Inside-out Banknote Variation
• Real Impossible Fold
• Braided Banknotes
• Hypercards
• Shrinking Banknote
• Linking Cards
• and more...

1st edition 2016, length 1 hour 24 min.

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An illustrated square of paper is shown and the pictures of "City Slickers", "Susie" and "The Wolves" are described with amusing patter as the sheet is folded into a small package. With one single cut the folded paper...

A borrowed and signed bill vanishes from a spectator's hands and it is found in a bottle with a screw cap, that was inside a sealed envelope.

An Arthur Setterington original that's a sensation ... clean, easy, visual magic that has impact.

The magician draws attention to a stapled envelope hanging from two clips in a nicely lacquered wood and metal skeleton frame, in complete isolation. He requests the loan of a bill a $1, $5, $10, $100 - a £1, £5, £50 - it doesn't make any difference. A spectator is asked to note the number on the bill or he can place any identifying mark he wishes...

A rare and original manuscript that explains 13 tricks and routines using "cellophane" as the "main ingredient".

In an early issue of the Sphinx Grant wrote about this manuscript:

Here's a sure HIT. It contains up-to-date practical tricks for pocket, parlor and club, all worked with CELLOPHANE, the popular item everybody is talking about. And the best part is you can work the tricks as soon as you get the manuscript, as no special apparatus is required. Get set for some real Tricks, Stunts and Fun...

1. Ice Cold Water
2. The Flying Ice
3. Tieing A Cigarette In A Knot
4. The Rubber Cigarette ...

• a Penny Puzzle
• The Paper Ladder
• The Palm Tree
• A Point About A Circle
• The New Square
• The Five Squares Again
• Quartering Three-Quarters
• Splitting Up...