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1. ...
   • ...
     • ... Papers
670. A Different Rising Wand - Harvey Seager
670. "Do-It-Yourself" Tip - Geoff Ogram
     • Glue Gun
671. Riddle Boxes - John Mills
672. The Magic of Floyd Shotts - John Yeager
     • Six Card Mystery
673. Express Dyeing - Claude Van Wymeersch
674. De Courcy's Deceivers - Ken de Courcy
     • Thimble Interlude
676. Foxy Miser's Dream or Folding Manipucoin - Michael Jorden
678. Magic Matches - Joe Hustler
679. The Dennis Vickery Showcase - Tried and Tested Supreme Routines
     679. Introduction - Ken de Courcy
     679. The Mannequin or The Fashion Parade
     681. A Tale for the Tinis
     684. The Silkworm Factory
     686. Anti-Gravity...

Classic routines with coins, bank notes, cigarettes, thimbles, and cards by the amazing Al Koran & and the ingenious Jack Lamonte.

Including Koran's amazing Miracle Card Stab.

1st edition 1947; reprinted 1987; digital edition 2010; original 66 pages; PDF 44 pages.

Table of Contents

3. CONTENTS
4. PREFACE
5. Amazement with Money
6. - THE "LAST-WORD" NOTE ROUTINE
10. - THE MASTER "SILVER AND COPPER" ROUTINE
14. - THE MASTER "CLOSE-UP" COIN VANISH
16. Cigarette Sorcery
17. - PERFECT CIG-SWITCH
19. - THE CHAPEAU CIGARETTES
21. - CIG SUSPENSION
23. Thimble Amazement
24. - THE MASTER MOVE
26. - THE "PINCH" HIGH SPEED VISIBLE VANISH ...

1. ... Handkerchief
180. The Restored Match
181. The Card Clipped In Mid-Air
182. Mysterious Cross Trick
183. Crossing The Matches
184. The Ring On The String
185. Moving The Matches
186. The Diminishing Card
187. Self-Opening Match-Box
188. Finding Four Aces
189. Mysterious Paper Balls
190. Sugar That Burns
191. Color Changing Paper
192. The Penetrating Thimble
193. Vanishing Tobacco
194. Mystic Glass
195. Magic Matches
196. Coin Tell
197. The Transposed Colors
198. Tell-Tale Tags
199. Balanced Golf Balls
200. Adhesive Thimbles
201. The Appearing Coin
202. The Uncut Card
203. Tough Knuckles
204. Hindu Rice Trick
205. Three Color Cards
206. The Spirit Bell
207. Magic Writing
208. The Adhesive Cards
209. Find The Total ...

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  1. ...
  36. Hu-gardenias - kudos to performers
      • Coe Norton
  36. Tri-Miracle - North
  36. Hu-gardenias - kudos to performers
      • Paul & Cille Morris and their aides de camp
  36. Hu-gardenias - kudos to performers
      • Gaby Harger and Wanda
  37. Jean Hugard on Thimbles - Milbourne Christopher
      • Flash Thimble
      • The Routine
      • Big Thimble Finale
  38. Try This - 3 Club Restorations
  38. 75 Tricks with a Svengali Deck - Al Stevenson - advertisement
  38. Patter Line - Cliff Green
  39. There's a Doctor in the House - Sid Lorraine
      • Part II
        • Spots
        • Yakkity Teeth
        • Stethoscope
        • Hour Glass...

1. ... - Sam Berland
112. catching A Hatful Of Watches - Sam Berland
112. It's Only My Opinion But - Clarke "The Senator" Crandall
113. Magicana - A Magazine Within A Magazine - Charles Miller, editor
     113. The Diakka Gets Doubled - based on a plot by Jordan
     115. Intermission - Charles Miller
117. Impromptu Eight Thimble Production - Sam Berland
118. A Blockbuster Opening - Sam Berland
119. Improved Torn and Restored Marked Card - Sam Berland
120. Impact - Sam Berland
121. Terrific Silk Production - Sam Berland
122. Milt Larsen Presents the 19th Edition of It's Magic!
124. Bagdad - News From All Over the World
126. Obituaries

• ... Snare, etc.
• Sucker Gag: defined
• Sun and Moon Trick: handkerchief trick described in detail
• Switch: Defined
• Sympathetic Coins: A Coin Matrix type effect described

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• Table Tricks: defined
• Talk: defined
• Tambourine: production utility described
• Telephone Trick: briefly described
• Thimble Tricks: Decent article describes production, multiplying thimbles, and thimble passes
• Thirty Card Trick: Cards transfer from one pile to another
• Thread, Black: defined
• Three-Card Tricks: Three Card Monte describe in fair detail; Mexican Three Card Monte; Slow Motion Method
• Thumb Tie: release...

1. ... M. Richmond
26. The Hour Glass of Father Time - Joseph Rukus
27. Ventriloquists Column; Ideas and Gags - G. McAthy
28. Are You A Personage Or A Shadow? - C. A George Newmann
28. Al Saal to be on I.B.M. Program in Batavia
29. Out of Sight - John Goodrum - continued
    • The Rub-Away Vanish
    • The Restless Thimble
30. Brainstorms - George Paxton
    • Ten Cards to Pocket
30. The Mystic Disc - William Meyers
33. I'm Telling You - H. Adrian Smith
    • Dealing from the Bottom - Clifford Soft
34. The "Tops" Trading Center
37. Letter from J. V. Gentilly - re: Harlowe Hoyt

1. The "Tops" - Volume 1, Number...

1. ...Illustration to clarify July's Throne For A Touchdown
35. The Professional Touch - "Monk" Watson
35. Magic Nuts I Have Known - by One of Them
    • Snag Werris
36. People, Places & Things Magical - Dick Du Bois
37. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Convincing Four-Ace Routine
38. Twenty-Five Years Ago in "Tops"
    • Rabbit From Balloons - Joy
    • Thimble Through Hank - J. B. Bobo
    • Phantom Magic - Monte Harris
      • Number One
      • Number Two
      • Number Three
      • Number Four
40. Gospel Magic - Rev. Robert E. Olson
    • Kellar Rope Tie
41. The Presto Pitch - Tommy Windsor
42. Tenkai Ill

1. The New Tops - Volume 3, Number 9 - September 1963 - 52 pages
1. Cover - Harry Blackstone, Jr.
3. Contents
3. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
   • Shiners - Scotch Brand Polyester...

• ... II POCKET TRICKS
  • The Cut and Restored Cotton
  • The Money-Box
  • Change!
  • A Mysterious Match-Box
  • A Regular Twister
  • A Good Shot
  • The Hypnotized Cigar
  • The Jumping Match
  • A New Torn Strip Restored
  • The Magical Match
  • A Knotty Problem
• CHAPTER III ROUTINES: THIMBLES
  • A Pretty Sleight with a Thimble
  • The Puzzling Thimble
• CHAPTER IV CIGAR AND CIGARETTES
  • Cigar and Cigarette Tricks
  • Vanishing a Lighted Cigarette
  • Manipulations with a Cigarette. The Transfer
  • The Production of Five Lighted Cigarettes
  • A Cigarette Producer
  • James Wakefield's Cigar Routine
  • Sleights with Cigars
• CHAPTER...

Conjuring tricks with cards balls, and dice; magic writing, performing animals, etc.

This is a surprisingly interesting book edited by W. H. Cremer. It includes an early precursor of the Chop Cup. (See The Magic Dutch Balls.) It has interesting information on gambling, cheating, and scams. The chapter...

1. ... Coin
2. Humpty Dumpty Outdone; The Egg Bag
3. I Am Saving You Money; Effects With Rabbits
4. Simplicity Is The Key-Note Of The Tarbell System Of Magic; The Cut And Restored Ribbon; A Card And Ribbon Mystery; The Ghostly Ribbon; A Spirit Communication; A Wandering Ribbon
5. The Famous Needle Trick; A Thimble Act
6. Silks; The Egg, The Glass, And The Handkerchief; The Wandering Handkerchief; The Silk And The Flame; The Candle, The Silk, And The Paper Tube; The Educated Knot
7. Divisions Of Modern Magic; Unlimited Opportunities In Magic; Specialization; Presentation; Creating Of Effects; Experiments Of Super Mentality; The Chess Knight's Tour; A Mind Reading Act; The Yogi's...

This is number three of Jordan's Ten New Tricks Series. Charles Jordan was an excellent and very innovative magician. He collected in this booklet tricks with balls, ring and rope, thimbles, a book mystery and more.

1st edition, 1920, Charles T. Jordan, Penngrove, CA; 23 pages.

1. Preface
2. 1. The Cord Restored
5. 2. A New Ring Release
8. 3. Coin Divination by James J. Moren
10. 4. Another Date-Reading Trick
12. 5. The Ubiquitous Poker Chips
14. 6. The "Full-View" Color-Changing Thimble
17. 7. The Letter-Mailing Mystery
19. 8. A Clean Ball Production
21. 9. A Manipulative Opening
22. 10. The Book Mystery

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  1. ...A Few Card Tricks - Wm. E. Robinson
  178. Enchanted Butterfly - F.D. Hewes
  179. The Flying Dancer Trick - illusion - H.J. Burlingame
  179. Twentieth Century Magic by Nevil Monroe Hopkins - book review

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  181. Mahatma - Volume II, Number VII - January 1899 - 12 pages
  181. Adrian Plate - biography
  182. Billiard Balls: Three New Moves - Ellis Stanyon
  182. Thimble and Paper Cone - Ellis Stanyon
  182. Conjuring Extraordinary - Some of the Remarkable Feats Performed by East Indian Jugglers
  183. Bohemian Tricks - Louis Necada
  184. A Magical Problem - Edward L. Knowles
  186. All About Magicians: Some Famous Conjurers Who have Visited Australia - Prof. Robert Kudarz
  186. The Great Three...

1. ... - Frederic Culpitt
   • Visible Change of Solid Balls to Silks
   • The decapitated Knot
   • "Silver to Copper" Sleight with Coins
73. Production Kettle for Silks - Prof. Edgar
74. The Sympathetic Coins (Downs "Art of Magic," page 235)
75. New Magic - Tom Sellers
    • Cigarette to Cigar and Pipe
    • Thimble and Pea
    • Orange Through Plate
    • The "Conqu" Ring
78. Winning a Wife - H. C. Mole
81. Cartoon Capers - Mystico
82. Programme
    • Jack Le Dair at the Gaiety, Ayr.
83. Two Bridger Lewis Silk Discoveries - Ernest Castro
84. When Were You Born? - Prof. Day
86. A Card-Clip Sleight - Victor Thornton
87. The Owl Man - Rupert H. Slater
88. The Legend of Ling Toy - article by Les. Vincent
89. Allan Lambie's Magic ...

1. ...
   • ...
     • ...
9. Hand Made Magic - series by Edward Victor
   • A Cigarette, Matchbox and Cigar Routine
     • 1. Production of Cigarettes
     • 2. The Multiplying Matchbox
     • 3. The Rising and Opening Matchbox
     • 4. Cigarette Change to Cigar
     • The Complete Routine
   • A Streamlined Thimble Production
   • Manipulator's Corner - A Card Change
     • Changing a Card to the One Selected
     • Obtaining a Card Secretly in the Palm
13. A Jap (Handkerchief) Box Routine - T. H. Chislett
    • The Colour Ray
16. Distilled Magic - series by Len Belcher
    • A Good Act Better than Publicity
    • Building the Act
    • The Plan of...

1. ... - Gordon Bailey
208. Arthur Carter Column - The Mysteries of Arthur Carter
     • The Magic Mirror
209. Crazy Sponge Ball Routine - Joe Riding
210. Two Gags from "Tiny"
211. Magic at The Purple Onion - testimonial
211. cartoon - Crockett
212. Topper Martyn Visits The Magic Castle
213. Super Suit - Sam Dalal
214. Lee's Thimble Routine - with Werry's Technicolour Thimbles
215. A Professional Table - Ken Johnson
216. Further Thoughts on ... Billy McComb's "Lenny the Leprechaun" - Harry Carnegie
217. Supreme Showcase - Sam Dalal
     217. Introduction
     217. Voodoo
     219. Only Death is for Certain ...
     220. The Book That Isn't
     221. Certificate of Merit
     221. Graphology (Hand-Writing Analysis)
     223. Pure Matchic
     224. The Voodoo Rites of El Shama...

1. ...A Letter from Stanton Carlisle - testimonial
230. A Pack Vanishes - John Howie
231. Ring Rhapsody - Ravelle and Andree
232. Your Key - Ernie Jones
233. Smile-A-While - jokes
234. Four Coins Production - Tom Sellers
234. A Study in Anti-Gravity - Frank Richmond
236. 30th Century Silks - Ravelle and Andree
237. News and Views from the Colonies - George Johnstone
240. Chameleon Thimble - Adi Kaufmann
240. Super Service - testimonial
240. More Lines - jokes
241. Permutation Plus - Arthur Setterington
242. Harry Stanley Reminisces
243. The One-Eared hares - puzzle
243. advertisements

1. Volume 16, Number 5, January, 1984, 66 pages, including front & back covers
257. advertisements
265. Lets Face It - editorial...

• ... - Peter Warlock
• Vice-Versa - Jacob Daley

• An All British Summer 1939 Jinx Extra
• photo of English delegation to the IBM Convention in Battle Creek, MI, 1939
• comments - Annemann
• Tip Tap Top - Tom Darlington
• Applause - Cedric
• King of Clubs - Eric Lewis
• Sucker Dummy - Eric Williams
• Thimble Come - John Ramsey
• Cane to Silk Ideas - George Davenport
• Bridge Mentalo - Oscar Paulson
• Glowing Embers - Lenz
• Repel-Attract - George Sutcliffe
• Mutilation - Jean Hugard
• Beer Cap - Arthur Dowler
• A Napkin Sewn - Leslie May
• Tourniquet Cig - Deveen
• A Four Ace Move - Tom Sellers
• The Satchel - Peter Warlock ...

The 25 lessons are:

1. Easy Magic
2. Presentation and Paper Magic
3. Showmanship & Impromptu Magic
4. String and Rope Tricks
5. Sleight-of-Hand with Cards
6. More Tricks with Cards
7. Advanced Card Magic
8. Sleight-of-Hand with Coins
9. Handkerchief Magic
10. Cigarette Magic
11. Billiard Ball Manipulation
12. Thimble Magic and Watch Tricks
13. Egg Tricks
14. Productions and Opening Effects
15. Liquid and Chemical Magic, Tricks with Live Stock
16. Comedy Magic
17. Mental Phenomena
18. Spiritualistic Tricks
19. Miscellaneous Magic
20. Oriental Magic
21. Stage Illusions
22. Publicity Feats and Escape Tricks
23. Sensational Illusions
24. The...

The 25 lessons are:

1. Easy Magic
2. Presentation and Paper Magic
3. Showmanship & Impromptu Magic
4. String and Rope Tricks
5. Sleight-of-Hand with Cards
6. More Tricks with Cards
7. Advanced Card Magic
8. Sleight-of-Hand with Coins
9. Handkerchief Magic
10. Cigarette Magic
11. Billiard Ball Manipulation
12. Thimble Magic and Watch Tricks
13. Egg Tricks
14. Productions and Opening Effects
15. Liquid and Chemical Magic, Tricks with Live Stock
16. Comedy Magic
17. Mental Phenomena
18. Spiritualistic Tricks
19. Miscellaneous Magic
20. Oriental Magic
21. Stage Illusions
22. Publicity Feats and Escape Tricks
23. Sensational Illusions
24. The...

1. ... Box

   Part VI. Carl Hertz Section

115. The Carl Hertz Bird Cage
116. The Carl Hertz Egg Bag
117. Norman Section
117. A New Coin Stand
119. The Norman Vanishing Die
120. A Quick Change
121. The Sympathetic Blocks

     Part VII. Jeans Section

123. The Life Story of Jeans, Inventor and Magician
124. A Novel Coin Production
125. The New Thimble Rigging
126. New Flower Production from a Soup-Plate
127. The Triple Rising Card Trick
129. The Death of Cora Illusion
132. The Swing of the Pendulum

     Part VIII. Spiritualistic Tricks

138. Spirit Manifestations
140. Table Tilting
141. The Levitation of a Small Table
142. The Medium's Box

     Part IX. Optical Illusions ...