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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...

• ... Stunner"
• The "Timil" Card Trick
• The "Red Demon" Card Mystery
• Twelve Novel Manipulations
• Chris Van Bern's "Pearl Mystery" Card Trick
• The Egg and Handkerchief Mystery
• The Butterfly
• The "Tunnel" Colour Change
• A Novel Changer, Vanisher or Loader
• A Lesson in Magic - and Some Eggs
• An Unique Thimble Sleight
• An "Ink-red-u-lous" Trick
• The Drawing-pin Mystery
• "The Waiter's Dream"
• Chris Van Bern 16 Card Trick
• The Brass Card Box
• The Mysterious Light
• The Affinity of Color

The Sphinx Index is a 540 page PDF, indexing all 52 volumes of The Sphinx magazine. Three people worked for hundreds of hours to collect and categorize this information. It has more than 14,000 entries. The index covers all tricks, effects and articles, but does not include assembly reports and other...

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...

• ... ONE: Club Foolers
  • The Appearing Pip
  • The Arrow Without A Bow
  • Balls of Mystery
  • Bricko
  • Cigarettes from the Air
  • The Diabolical Card Location
  • The Elongated Cigar
  • Ghostly Writing
  • Marksmanship Supreme
  • Miracle Prediction
  • The Mirror Tumbler (Five Tricks Described)
  • Multiplying Coin
  • A Novel Thimble Vanish
  • Original Spirit Raps
  • Out of the Nowhere
  • Patriotic Tissues
  • A Pip of a Card Trick
  • Rings and Ribbon Trick
  • Spirit Photography
  • Supreme Color Change
  • Transposition Extraordinary
  • Transpo Jr.
  • The Travelling Watch
  • Lighted Cigarette Vanish
  • The Mysterious Paper Stripes
  • The Mysterious...

• ... Change Routine
• Telescope of Imagination
• Pendulum Power
• A No Sting Bank Nite
• Stage Size Ring Flight
• Ring and String Routine String
• Increasing a Prop's Fascination
• The Severed Finger of Death
• Flame Through Handkerchief
• Death's Hand
• Hyper Card
• Jar of Mystery
• Poor Man's Sleeve Bouquet
• Thimble Magic
• Color Changing Shoelace
• Ball Nose Balance
• The Perfect Pea
• Kids' Costumes
• Professional Pickpocket Practice Prop
• Sponge Clown Noses
• The Cork Trick
• Spirit Slate Writing 1
• Spirit Slate Writing 2
• Add-A-Number
• The Lowly Elastic
• A Most Unusual Object

1st edition 2023, PDF 126...

An excellent selection of tricks by no other than David Devant. From his introduction:

This is a wonderful account of a traveling showman's trials and tribulations in England and Scotland during the middle of the 19th century. Among other things, he was a conjurer. While this is not a book of tricks, one coin trick is explained as part of one story of his life. But much more interesting are the descriptions of various scams and the modus operandi of various ways to defraud the public by traveling hucksters the author encountered. The operation of the thimble rig is explained in detail. It is an account of how traveling showmen struggled essentially their entire life to make...

From the preface by John Ramsay:

Mainly billiard balls but also thimbles, cards, coins and silks.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Billiard Balls
  • The Production Drop
  • The Best Change-Over Palm
  • An Easy Transfer Palm
  • Twist-Over Acquitment
  • Vanish from a Full Hand
  • A Colour Change in the Fist
  • The Fadeaway Vanish
  • The Enlarged Ball
  • The Drop Vanish
  • A Ball Passes Continuously From Hand to Hand
  • Color Change on Palm
  • Improvement on Standard Acquitment
  • Four Billiard Balls to a Cannon Ball
• Thimbles
  • A "Steal" Thimble Vanish
  • The "In and Out" Thumb Vanish
  • Vanish of Two Thimbles
• Coins
  • Special Coin Tourniquet
• Cards ...

This is the sequel to Slow Sleights and again includes a variety of moves for billiard balls, cards, thimbles, silks and cigarettes.

• Preface
• A Billiard Ball Flourish
• Third-Finger Vanish
• The Improved Ball Twist-Over
• The Finger-Clip Ball Vanish
• One-Handed Colour Change
• The Improved Drop Vanish
• The Perfect False Count
• The Invisible Card Change
• The Mysterious Twelve
• A Neat Thimble Vanish
• The “Sudden" Thimble Vanish
• A Little-Finger Vanish
• Thimble Through The Hand
• The Elusive Handkerchief Thimble
• A Thimble Vanish From Handkerchief
• A Thimble Constantly Passes From Hand To Hand
• A Twist-Over...

This is one of the best explanations of the Three Shell Game or Thimble Rig including 24 moves and 3 full routines. Jack Lamonte has drawn 86 clear illustrations to make studying the moves and routines a lot easier.

Excerpt from the introduction:

[Note: You will also be able to download a facsimile version of this manuscript.]

1st edition 1959, 30 pages; 1st digital edition 2013, 49 pages....

A complete Gambler Expose act.

• Introduction
• The Gambler's Touch
• I Get The Aces
• The Gambler Gets Your Cards
• The Gambler's Second Dealing
• Three Card Monte
• Cutting The Pack
• The Sensational Poker Demonstration
  • The Demonstration
  • The Shuffle
  • Suggestions For Interchanging Cards
• Heads Or...

From the foreword by Will Goldston:

• ... Idea / Ed Bagshawe
• Tricks and Tips &c.
• Here and There

Volume 1, Number 7, April 1924

• Monthly Chat
• A Borrowed Ring and Nest of Envelopes / C.H. Tickell
• Some Ancient Magic Made Modern: The Japanese Handkerchief Box / S.H. Sharpe
• Correspondence
• The Paper Ball Trick
• A Novel Finish to Thimble Production / Harry Kaye
• Improvements and Suggestions
• With Our Contemporaries
• A New Vanishing Tumbler
• Here and There

Volume 1, Number 8, May 1924

• Monthly Chat
• Silent Hand Reading / C.H. Tickell
• A Liquid Vanish / Harry Kaye
• Some Ancient Magic Made Modern: Angling Extraordinary...

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

Wrote (as "Loyd") Loyd's Master Manipulation of Thimbles (1931; repr 1949, 37pp) and Producing Lighted Cigarettes (1936, 22pp). Article in Genii.

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...

• ...
  • ... Coin
• CHAPTER IV. HANDKERCHIEF MAGIC
  • The "Super" Sympathetic Silks
• CHAPTER V. BILLIARD BALL SLEIGHTS
  • A Few Words on "Angles"
  • The "Direct Palm" Vanish
  • The "Throw-up" Vanish
  • The "Push-in" Vanish
  • An Elbow Vanish
  • An Original Colour-Change
  • A Continuous Ball Production
• CHAPTER VI. THIMBLE SLEIGHTS
  • The Hopping Thimble
  • The "Little Finger" Sleight
  • A "Slow Motion" Disappearance
  • A Triple Colour Change
  • A Sleight with Four Thimbles
  • A New and Original Thimble Holder
• CHAPTER VII. CIGARETTE AND CIGAR SLEIGHTS
  • The "Closed-Fist" Vanish
  • The "Pull-Out" Vanish
  • The "Thumb-Pivot"...

• ...
  • ...
  • An Effective Vanish And Recovery
  • A Comedy Ball Move
  • A "Passe-Passe" Billiard Ball Effect
• CHAPTER VII. CIGAR SECTION
  • Production Of Cigars From A Purse
  • Series Of Sleights And Moves For The Production Of Four Cigars
• CHAPTER VIII. MISCELLANEOUS SECTION
  • A Vanishing Glove Effect
  • The "Pop" Thimble Vanish
  • An Original Coin Production
  • The "Rainbow" Penknife
  • A "Matter-Thro'-Matter" Penknife Effect
  • An Impromptu Knife And Salt Trick
  • The Flying Salt
• A WORD ON TABLES

1st edition 1942, 1st digital edition 2016, 122 pages.

• ...
  • ...
  • An Effective Vanish And Recovery
  • A Comedy Ball Move
  • A "Passe-Passe" Billiard Ball Effect
• CHAPTER VII. CIGAR SECTION
  • Production Of Cigars From A Purse
  • Series Of Sleights And Moves For The Production Of Four Cigars
• CHAPTER VIII. MISCELLANEOUS SECTION
  • A Vanishing Glove Effect
  • The "Pop" Thimble Vanish
  • An Original Coin Production
  • The "Rainbow" Penknife
  • A "Matter-Thro'-Matter" Penknife Effect
  • An Impromptu Knife And Salt Trick
  • The Flying Salt
• A WORD ON TABLES

1st edition 1942.

• ...
  • ... Coin
• CHAPTER IV. HANDKERCHIEF MAGIC
  • The "Super" Sympathetic Silks
• CHAPTER V. BILLIARD BALL SLEIGHTS
  • A Few Words on "Angles"
  • The "Direct Palm" Vanish
  • The "Throw-up" Vanish
  • The "Push-in" Vanish
  • An Elbow Vanish
  • An Original Colour-Change
  • A Continuous Ball Production
• CHAPTER VI. THIMBLE SLEIGHTS
  • The Hopping Thimble
  • The "Little Finger" Sleight
  • A "Slow Motion" Disappearance
  • A Triple Colour Change
  • A Sleight with Four Thimbles
  • A New and Original Thimble Holder
• CHAPTER VII. CIGARETTE AND CIGAR SLEIGHTS
  • The "Closed-Fist" Vanish
  • The "Pull-Out" Vanish
  • The "Thumb-Pivot"...

1. ...
   1. ... Pack just Shuffled (New Method)
   153. Balancing Feats
   155. Walnut Shells and Pea
   156. The Restored Cut
   157. The Garter Trick
159. IX. Miscellaneous Tricks
     159. Flash Paper
     160. A New Fire Flash
     161. Conjurer's Ammunition
     162. Smoke from Two Empty Pipes
     162. Fire-eating Trick
     163. Exploding Soap-bubbles
     164. The Tube and Ball
     166. The Ubiquitous Thimble
     169. The Mysterious Tambourine
     171. The Bran and Dove Plates
     173. The Wandering Stout
     175. A Crystal Water Mystery
     177. The Wizard's Breakfast
     180. The Hydrostatic Tube
     183. The Hydrostatic Tumbler
     185. Paper Cone, Watch, Rabbit, and Boxes
     188. The Magical Production of Flowers
     195. Magic Incubation
     198. The Wizard's Omelet
     199. The Wonderful...