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If you've ever thought of presenting magic with thimbles, this is the ebook for you. Chock full of sleights, flourishes, manipulations, routines and ideas you'll want to add to your act. Magic with thimbles is something that many of today's audiences haven't had the pleasure of seeing, which makes it new and different to them. As thimbles are small and portable, they can easily be carried in a pocket or purse, always ready to amuse and amaze, wherever you might be.

Partial contents:

• Introduction
• Foreword
• The Multiplying Thimbles
• Miracle Penetration
• One Hand Visible Penetration
• Instantaneous...

For a long time I had the perception that magic with thimbles is at best something for kids. Then I saw a performance by a Japanese magician. And it blew my mind. It was a fast paced, very visual and beautiful manipulation performance.

In this booklet Hugard teaches all the moves and quite a few routines to build your own thimble act. One of the big advantages of thimbles is that they are easier to manipulate than other objects such as balls and coins.

1st edition, 1936 Max Holden, New York; 46 pages

3. Chapter 1: The Thimbles
9. Chapter 2: Advanced Sleights
22. Chapter 3: The First Thimble ...

Thimble Stars is a 4 minute thimble manipulation routine, as Stephen performs in his children's show, adult parlour, and in close-up situations.

He performs it over 250 times a year in his children's show to comedy patter, which ends in a spring rabbit production. His close-up version ends with the vanish of all four thimbles.

The routine has been devised to work around all bad angles, eliminate steals and awkward moves and make the routine as 'fool proof' as he could make it. He doesn't wear a jacket or use sleeves. The only clothing requirements are that you have trouser pockets. ...

A collection of thimble magic routines, moves and tips from TOPS magazine.

• Latest Thimble Magic
  • Preface
  • The Thumb Palm
  • The Finger Palm
  • Roll Over Palm
  • Front And Back Palm
  • Move and Vanish With One Thimble
  • Now You See It - Now You Don't
  • Finger Exchange
  • Penetration Through The Hand
  • Invisible Penetration Through A Handkerchief
  • Visible Penetration Through A Handkerchief
  • Two Handed Color Change
  • One Handed Color Change
  • Red And Green
  • Patriotic Thimble Routine
  • Simplified One To Eight" Routine
• Trick Thimbles
  • Thimble To Silk
  • Thimble To Cigarette
  • Miracle Thimble
  • The Hook Thimble ...

Accenting simplicity in thimble magic, without clips or holders, gimmicked tables or devices or trick thimbles. 51 illustrations, great sleight of hand.

1st edition 1948; 1st digital edition 2013, 39 pages.

Table of Contents

5. Preface

   The Thimbles Themselves

6. Materials
7. Sleights

   Vanishes

8. The Toss Palm
9. "Cig" Vanish
10. Slow-Motion Vanish
11. Rub-A-Dub Vanish

    Color Changes

14. The Rub Change
16. The Triple Color Change
17. Twister Color Change
18. Slow-Motion Color Change

    Thimble Tricks

20. Double Penetration
21. Transposed Thimbles
23. The Educated Thimbles
24. Multi-Thimble Vanish
26. The Penetrating Thimble ...

This ebook explains some routines, that will teach you the standard moves with ordinary thimbles, and also the handling of the nested pair.

No thimbles are included with this PDF. Regular thimbles can be bought in any sewing shop. For the nested thimbles check any well-stocked magic shop.

• Nested Thimble Magic Outfit
• Magic with Ordinary thimbles
  • Thimble vanish and production
  • See through vanish
  • Finger Switch Color Change
• Routines Using the Nested Thimbles
  • Thimble Penetration
  • The Roll Over Finger palm
  • Multiplying Thimbles
  • Nested Color Changing Thimble

1st edition 2004;...

A Fantasy in Thimbles

Werry was an extremely innovative and creative magician, developing many new effects and founding the famous magazine Magische Welt in Germany (which continues to be published by Wittus Witt). You will also learn about Dean Metcalfe's thimble routine.

This was part of the famous Ganson Teach-In series originally published by Supreme Magic Inc. Rights are now owned by Martin Breese whom we thank for the kind permission to reproduce this booklet.

[Get the full collection of all 17 Teach-Ins at a huge discount.

1st edition 1979, original 35 pages, PDF 33 pages.

4. Contents
5. Introduction
6. The Basic Moves ...

Here is an amazing and entertaining magic act that runs a full five minutes, yet it leaves the audience wanting more. An ebook every magician should have. Chuck Smith's routine includes beautiful vanishes, appearances and color change transformations. It looks so incredible to the audience, yet the entire act relies on only two, easy-to-master sleights. Everything can be examined (should the performer wish) before and after ... the thimbles really are ungimmicked.

If you're an enterprising conjuror, use the corporate colors of your sponsor for the color changes for even more applause. Also...

A fascinating sleight-of-hand trick anyone can perform.

Here is a clever routine of real sleight-of-hand which can be performed "right under their noses" without years of tedious practice, without special equipment, and without mechanical aids. No trick thimbles are necessary and you can perform at any time and anywhere — before a large group or across the dinner table. Whether you’re seven or seventy, you’ll enjoy fooling people with this real "magic".

42 actual photographs of a professional magician's hands in action and full written descriptions show and tell you everything...

From the foreword by Will Goldston:

This is considered one of the best, if not THE best publication for manipulating thimbles. Includes many new and original concepts.

It comes with 84 gorgeous line drawings. The original booklet had these drawings in very small size. For this ebook we have completely reformatted it and enlarged...

Table of Contents

3. Content
4. Rehearsal

   Thimble Manipulation

6. The Thumb Palm
6. Vanish No. 1
7. Vanish No. 2
7. The Change-Over Palm
7. Vanish No. 3
8. The Back and Front Palm

   Watch and Clock Tricks

8. The Flight of Time
12. The Flying Alarm Clock

    Borrowed Watch Tricks

14. With an Assistant
18. Without an Assistant
19. The Watch in the Loaf
20. The Watch Boxes

    The History of Magic (part 7)

21. Conjurers of the Eighteenth Century

1st edition 1931; 22 pages.

Small format stapled softcover booklet in good condition. For the content see the digital edition.

Softcover booklet stapled in good condition. For the content see the digital edition.

Four pages of instructions in one big folded sheet. Note that the folds have torn in several places. For the content see the digital edition.

This is the one work on pure sleight-of-hand to which the term "encyclopedic" is applicable. It presents written and visual instructions on how to perform the choicest specialties of the outstanding experts in card, coin, ball, and thimble manipulation. The sleights are not only explained with admirable clarity but they are analyzed critically and their points of strength (and weakness, if any) are emphasized. The thoroughness with which the author has performed his task is indicated by the fact that he explains five methods...

1. ...
   • ... for Melt-Away Card Vanish
   • August selection - Muir's Laugh Lines
   • Jackpot moved to Keeping TAB
   • to balance a newspaper on one finger
   • S.A.M. Convention coverage next month
   • Single Rope Penetration
398. Recent Library Acquisitions
398. Department of Unexpected Information - re: first thimble
398. advertisements

401. The Bat - Number Fifty-Six - August 1948 - 8 pages
401. Who Wrote the Tricks of Charles T. Jordan?
402. Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
402. Gag Bag
404. advertisement
404. A Mathematical diversion - Charles T. Jordan
404. cartoon - Tim
405. Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
     • Stamp It
406. Puzzle...

1. ... 2 – September, 1922 – 16 pages
17. cover photo – Local Sales Department, Thayer’s Magical Emporium
18. Magical Clubs Directory
19. Editorial, Special Notice, and notes
20. The Los Angeles Society of Magicians – T. W. McGrath
20. The Magicians Dream – poem – Albert Simpson (U. Will Declaire)
20. A Thimble Transfer – Ray Webb
21. Patter for the Multiplying Thimbles – Herbert M. Richmond
21. A Thimble Move
22. Appearing and Disappearing Thimbles – Prof. N. Massicotte
22. ”Thumblo” – Shirly [sic] W. Guye
22. The Mysterious Travelling Thimble
22. The Thim Ball – Henry Peden
22. magic note re: Harry G. Cooke ...

• ...
  • ... Box
  • No. 1375. The Simplex Hand Reader
  • No. 1366. The King Felton Blindfold
• Magician's Tables Supplies Accessories
  • No. 289—The Ethereal Floating Table
  • No. 533 Table to Hat and Cane
  • No. 578—Mawe’s “101” Asisto Table Top
  • No. 310—Thayer’s New Portable Black Art Table
• Thimble Magic
  • No. 168—The Multiplying Thimbles
  • No. 22—The Elusive Thimble
  • No. 435—Thimble, Tobacco and Smoke
  • No. 635—The Thimbles of “Old King Tut”
  • No. 702—The Thimble Frame
  • No. 693—Thimblewiz
  • No. 211. Loyd's New Perfection Thimble Clip
  • No. 206. The Twentieth Century Thimbles ...

1. ... MOVE NUMBER ONE
328. - MOVE NUMBER TWO
329. - MOVE NUMBER THREE
330. - MOVE NUMBER FOUR
331. - MOVE NUMBER FIVE
331. - MOVE NUMBER SIX
333. - MOVE NUMBER SEVEN
334. - MOVE NUMBER EIGHT
335. - MOVE NUMBER NINE
335. - MOVE NUMBER TEN
336. - MOVE NUMBER ELEVEN
339. - A SURPRISING CIGARETTE IMPROMPTU
340. - THE L.W. CARD IN CIGARETTE

     CHAPTER 15: THIMBLE MAGIC

344. Aunt Martha's Thimble
344. - MOVE NUMBER ONE
345. - MOVE NUMBER TWO
347. - MOVE NUMBER THREE
347. - MOVE NUMBER FOUR
349. - MOVE NUMBER FIVE
351. - MOVE NUMBER SIX
353. - MOVE NUMBER SEVEN
354. - MOVE NUMBER EIGHT

355. The Penetrative Thimble
356. - MOVE NUMBER NINE
357. - MOVE NUMBER TEN
358. - MOVE NUMBER ELEVEN

358. Thimble Thimblerig ...

1. ...Supreme Special Vouchers
49. Adairs Ideas - comments from Ian Adair
    • Coin in the Ball of Wool Production
51. Ways and Means of Entertainment - Wilfred Tyler
52. Ropes and Rings - George Sydney Hutchinson
53. Duet - Jeremy Crockett & Ken de Courcy
    • And Generally ...
    • The Chinese (Atomic Rice) Cups
57. Chinese Thimble Thru - Ken de Courcy
59. Bate's Way - Jimmie Bates
    • Jimmie's Routine and Patter for: Sympathetic Silks"
63. Edwin Calling! - comments from Edwin Hooper
65. advertisements

84. Volume 1, Number 3, January-February, 1967, 42 unnumbered pages
85. advertisements
88. Let's Face It - editorial by Ken...

1. ... - editorial comments
223. The Eight in the Side Pocket - Dai Vernon
223. Did You Know That - Maury Kains
224. Gammatration - Frederick Kolb
224. Did You Know That - Maury Kains
224. Jamisonian Kinks - R. W. Jamison
225. The Proskauer Prediction - Julien J. Proskauer
225. Did You Know That - Maury Kains
226. The "New Century" Thimble Routine - Winston H. Freer
227. The Problem of the Five Coins - Orville Meyer
227. Houdini Said - quotation
227. Blossom Time
228. Sugar Routine - Bill McCaffrey
228. Any Gum Called For - Dr. R. V. Stone
228. An Impromptu Quicky - Dr. R. V. Stone (Ramo)
229. Genii Juniors - A Page For Junior Magicians (Under Eighteen Years Of Age) - Billy Larsen, Jr., editor
     • Editorial ...