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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. ...

1. ... - 68 pages
621. Cover - Geoffrey Buckingham
624. In This Issue - contents
640. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
641. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
642. Geoffrey Buckingham: The Man ... And His Magic - Bayard Grimshaw
645. Conjuror's Choice - Geoffrey Buckingham
648. Showers of Pips - Geoffrey Buckingham
650. A Flash Finish To A Thimble Routine - Geoffrey Buckingham
652. An Alternate Finish To A Thimble Routine - The Giant Thimble - Geoffrey Buckingham
654. Any Card Torn and Restored - Geoffrey Buckingham
655. A Striking Opening To A Thimble Routine - Geoffrey Buckingham
656. A Gambling Legend - Geoffrey Buckingham
658. Newspaper and Dollar Bill - Geoffrey Buckingham
659. Cards and Coins - Geoffrey...

January 1980 - December 1980
William Larsen, Jr., Publisher and Executive Editor
Bill and Irene Larsen - Editors

888 pages

1. Genii - Volume 44, Number 1 - January 1980 - 64 pages
1. Cover - Erhard Liebnow - A Special Magic Section
4. In This Issue - contents
16. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
17. The Vernon...

1. ... Ads
260. Answer to Photo Quiz

272. Genii - Volume 49, Number 5 - November 1985 - 72 pages
272. Cover - Shimada
276. In This Issue - contents
301. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
302. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
303. Shimada - WWL (Jr)
307. The Shimada Billiard Ball Routine
313. The Shimada Flash Knotted Silk on Cane
314. The Shimada Thimble Routine
318. Magicana - A Magazine Within A Magazine - Charlie Miller & William Read Woodfield, editors
     318. Four Coin Extraction From Purse - Armando Gutierrez
     319. Intermission - Charlie Miller
321. Illusion Plans - Paul Osborne and Associates
     • Home for the Holidays
323. Obituaries
     • Richiardi - ny Ed DeMello
326. Absolutely...

July 1989 - June 1990
William Larsen, Jr., Publisher and Editor

848 pages

845. Genii - Volume 53, Number 1 - July 1989 - 76 pages
845. Cover - Siegfried and Roy
849. In This Issue - contents
868. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
869. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
870. Siegfried & Roy World Tour - Bill and Irene Larsen ...

January 1999 - December 1999
Richard Kaufman, Editor

912 pages

1. Genii - Volume 62, Number 1 - January 1999 - 72 pages
1. Cover - William W. Larsen, Sr.
5. Contents
6. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
   • Where We've Been and Where We're Going
   • Michael Skinner and the Death of the Art
   • Speak...

1. ...
   1. ...
      • ... Therewith - Guy Hollingworth
      • Steve Mayhew's Angel May Shuffle but the Devil Still Deals - Jack Carpenter
      • Trickery Treats: Card Craft Continued - J.K. Hartman
   71. Tricks Reviewed by Danny Orleans
       • NFW - Gary Freed
       • Chameleon Knives - Joe Mogar
       • The Universal Thimble Set - Jeff Scanlan
       • Peki Magic Wands - Peter Kinnigkeit
       • Linking Lifesavers - Colin Gilbert
   75. Videotapes Reviewed by Matthew Field
       • Jeff McBride's World Class Manipulation, Vols. 1, 2, and 3 - Jeff McBride
       • The Relentless Ring & String Routine - Bob Miller ...

January 2010 - December 2010
Richard Kaufman, Editor

1184 pages

1. Genii - Volume 73, Number 1 - January 2010 - 96 pages
1. Cover - The 11th Los Angeles Conference on Magic History
5. Contents
10. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
11. Now Performing - New York & Boston
12. On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer ...

• ... 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...

Token Gesture
A spectator has free choice of any of the eight tokens; the iron, dog, top hat, battleship, thimble, car or wheelbarrow. The magician divines correctly which token was secretly chosen.

1st edition 2015, 24 pages.

Someone once commented that "If you want to hide a magic secret, put it in a book or magazine!" There is probably some truth to that statement, as there is "buried treasure" on each and every page of this work. Tricks, ideas, gags, presentations, suggestions and routines from a full complement of...

• ... Card Production
• It Hasn’t Started Yet
• Mental Masterpiece
• Double-Over Card Steal
• Testing Strength
• The Game Of Thirty-One
• Thirty Cards
• The Twitching Muscle Just A Gag!
• Two To Four Ball Move
• Novel Four Ball Production
• Mouth Ball Move
• The Last Ball Move
• Closed Fist Ball Move
• Four Thimble Vanish
• Passing Thimbles
• Body Load
• Disappearing And Reappearing Coin Stand
• The Hairy Match
• Comedy Penetration
• The Repeat Candle
• Vanish Of Grains Of Rice
• An Egg Bag Move
• Chinese Pagodas
• The Lung-Tester
• Dry Wine
• A Novel Load
• Wine And Water
• Clink Coins
• Double Effect Silk Transposition ...

Contains over 100 ideas, tricks, routines and novelties with the Cups and Balls. Contains over 40 illustrations, engravings and photos. Includes the original Mohammed Bey routines and three authentic Easy Indian Cup routines. For beginners and experts alike.

Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Publisher's...

Magic products are being offered in the following categories:

• Accessories
• Advertising
• Ball Section
• Bird Cages
• Block Tricks
• Books
• Bottle Tricks
• Candle Tricks
• Cane Tricks
• Card Magic
• Change Bags
• Cigarette Tricks
• Close-Up, Pocket and Intimate Magic
• Coin and Money Magic
• Comedy Effects ...

After the index in the back is a section of 14 pages with additional products. This means it is likely that Abbott catalog #18 is pretty much identical to Abbott catalog #17 except for this final section of products.

Magic products are being offered in the following categories:

• Accessories ...

From the Foreword:

• Foreword
• Thimble And Wine Glass
• A Juggling Feat
• The Rod And Ring
• A Humorous Card Item
• The Jardine Ellis Slate Mystery
• An Experiment In Telepathy
• Card Divination
• The Holder Of The Egg
• The Measured, Cut, And Restored String
• Coin Levitation
• The Magnetised Knife
• The Floating Wand

1st edition 1925, 32 pages; 1st digital edition...

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 ...

Nicely illustrated routines of a full-time performer.

From the introduction:

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...

• Foreword
• Yrutnec Hteitnewt
• Coin Materialisation
• The Coins Disappear
• Ring Penetration
• The Patriotic Change
• The Inca Ring
• Two Colour Production Tube
• Two In One
• Riffle Rice
• A Ribbon Mystery
• The Dove Mat Illusion
• The Travelling Flame
• Thimble Penetration
• Mr. Rabbit
• A Stacked Deck
• Kleenex Production
• Looped Rope Through Neck
• Rope Through Neck
• Silk Chain
• Production Of A Silk
• The Dancing Rings And Umbrella Finale

Magic products are being offered in the following categories:

• Accessories
• Advertising Section
• Ball Magic
• Bird Cages
• Block Tricks
• Bottle Tricks
• Candle Tricks
• Canes
• Card Magic
• Change Bags
• Cigarette Tricks
• Close-Up and Pocket Tricks
• Coin and Money Magic
• Comedy Effects
• Cups and Balls ...

In this catalog Eddie Joseph and all his publications and separately sold tricks received a separate section. Abbott is also operating their own printing presses and advertises to print business cards, letterheads, handbills and show cards for magicians. A price list is included at the very end. ...