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  • ...A Novel Tourniquet Pass / Chris Van Bern
  • A Feat of Dexterity / Horace Rose
  • Moves With a Penny / T. Wilson
  • A New Coin Pass / George Johnson
  • A Coin Effect / Stanley Norton
  • A Coin Exchange / George Johnson
  • A Subtle Coin Change / Alberto
  • A Novel Coin Box / George Johnson
  • Coin-Box and Handkerchief / Bruce Hurling
• WITH THIMBLES
  • Thimble Magic / Edward Victor
  • A New Thimble Vanish / W. Maurice
  • The Red, White and Blue Thimble / George Johnson
• WITH CARDS
  • Chosen Card Discovered by a Knife / Scott Roberts
  • Another Method / Bruce Hurling
  • An Effective Discovery / Edward Victor
  • An Illusive Card Colour Change / Prof. Edgar ...

• The Pass Surpassed
• Chameleon Card
• Henry Hardin's Handkerchief Production
• B. H. Additional Wrinkle To Show Both Palms At Once
• Additional Wrinkle
• Super-Supreme Force
• Concluding The Effect
• Auto-Operative Shuffle
• Handkerchief Creation
• Climax Color Change
• The Wonder Pass
• The Impromptu Magician
• The Indeceptive Deception
• Burling Hull "Invisible Pass"
• A Unique Thimble "Move"
• Burling Hull Thimble Production

1st edition 1914, 26 pages; PDF 20 pages.

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...

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  • ... 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 ...

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.

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

The coauthor, John Northern Hilliard, is well known to conjurers as Howard Thurston's advance-man and editor and author of conjuring books. There are lots of references to magic and scenes in the novel that will delight the magician, such as: "They've thimble-rigged Turkey, shifted the cut on Germany, and run in a cold deck on England. Do you think they'd hesitate to turn a trump from the bottom to win this trick?"

1st edition 1913, 351 pages; PDF 137 pages.

• THE GIRL ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE
• TWO PRICELESS GAGS
• IDEAS FOR MAGICIANS
• CLEAR-VU BILL VANISH
• METAPOUR
• TRICKITIES
• PERSONAL TOUCH TO THE PAPER HAT
• THIMBLE TRANSPOSED
• PORTFOLIO OF TRICKS BY ALLESSANDRO
  • The Demon Dollar
  • A Cigarette Routine
  • Number Divination
  • Lie Detector
  • Four Ace Control
  • Magic Sum
  • Transposition Cards
  • Allessandro's Gag Kit
• ONE AT A TIME COINS
• ACES IN HAND
• HALLOWEEN ADAPTATION FOR SQUARE CIRCLE
• PATTER FOR THE TOM BOWYER REPEAT BILL TRICK
• BUILD- IT- YOURSELF PRODUCTION ILLUSIONETTE
• RIGHT CARD - WRONG COLOR
• SATAN'S SATIN
• A GROUP OF IDEAS BY AL MURDY
  • The...

• ...Color Divination
• Three Lights On A Match
• Hubert, The Undernourished Rabbit
• Modern Club Act With Patter
  • Only A Roomer
  • The Scotchman's Pocketbook
  • The Sash Cord Mystery
  • Blue Ribbon Beer Mystery
  • She Done Him Wrong
• Tele-Phony
• My Hero
• Electroizm
• A Sunday School Trick
• Thumbs Up Liquid Dye
• A New And Novel Thimble Routine
• Trick Or Treat
• Candliquo
• The Dollis Coins Penetration
• Atomic Reaction
• Predicted Total
• Rattle Box Routine
• Five Tricks With A Harmless Rubber Canary
• Color Changing Knife Finale
• C Note Gag
• Presentation For Sketch A Flower
• Our Frontispiece

1st edition 1957, 42 pages; PDF...

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• The Fist Coin Routine by Arthur Punnar
• A New Card Change by Tommy Dowd
• The Kaplan Coin Transposition by George G. Kaplan
• Wandering Walnuts by Joseph Keen
• Name Your Number by Bert Allerton
• Coins Through the Table by Dai Vernon
• A Knotty Interlude
• A Rope Cutting Tie-Up by Francis J. Rigney
• New Thimble Vanish by Frank J. Rigney
• Novel Card and Cigarette Trick by Lu Brent
• Ballantine Color Change by Amazing Ballantine
• Table Magic

1st edition ~1980; PDF 35 pages.

• ...
  • ... and Production
  • Cigarette Production Fake
  • An Egg Move
  • Blowing an Egg
  • Egg Manipulation
  • Egg and Hat
• Billiard Balls
  • Ball Stand
  • Billiard Ball Equipment
  • To Prevent Balls Rolling
  • Vanish for a Ping-Pong Ball
  • Vanishing Billiard Balls
  • Two Billiard Ball Juggles
• Thimbles
  • Finale for Thimble Production
  • Vanishing Thimbles
• Flowers
  • A Flower Production
  • Improved Flower in Button-hole
  • A Flower Load for Large Flowers
  • The Bouquet
• Paper
  • A Magical Paper Weight
  • Paper Cone Production
  • Afghan Bands
• Hats
  • Retaining a Hat Load
  • Hat Fake
  • Hat Coil Load
• Matches
  • Match...

• ... 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...

• A Victory for Originality
• Between Ourselves
• What Others are Doing - Henri Bekker
• Practical Magic - "Ceeanbee" Matchbox
• Impromptu - The Paper Balls
• Honest Swindles - A New Style for Patter
• Whereabouts this Week
• Those Exclusive (!) Secrets
• In Open Council
• A Simple Thimble Holder
• Magical Societies

Number 5 (July 2nd, 1913)

• A Talk on Showmanship
• Between Ourselves
• What Others are Doing - Bernard
• Practical Magic - The World in a Nutshell
• Impromptu - The Evanescent Coin, by Chung Ling Soo
• Cards - The "Brush" Change
• Professional Movements this Week ...

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  • ...Egg Duster
  • False Finger
  • Ghost Tube
  • Golden Canister
  • Handkerchief Ball
  • Handkerchief Cylinder
  • Mirror Tumbler
  • Money Tray
  • Nest Of Boxes
  • Opera-Hat
  • Paper Fastener And Safety-Pin
  • Paper Cone
  • Pistol Tube
  • Plain Changing Bag
  • Rabbit Saucepan
  • Roterberg Card Box
  • Sand Frame
  • Stodare Egg
  • Tambourine Rings
  • Thimble Producer
  • Thumb Tip
  • Wand With Centre Rod
  • Watch Box
• Section Three: Conjuring Appurtenances
  • Adjustable Patch Pocket
  • Billiard Balls
  • Black Thread
  • Conjuring Tables
  • Eggs
  • Flash Paper
  • Glass Coin Disk
  • Magic Wand
  • Playing Cards
  • Servante
  • Silk Handkerchiefs
  • Spring Flowers
  • Thimbles ...

• ... Effects All Designed for Close-Up Performing
  • JIM-DANDY VANISHER [Jim Shannon]
  • POP-OFF [W. Bowman]
  • A TWIST THROUGH THE WRIST [John Boyko]
  • NICKEL-PLATED [Derek Vernon]
  • PURSE [Bill Nord]
  • RISE [H. G. Frank]
  • REUNION [Don Tanner
  • VARIANT [John P. Hamilton]
  • ANOTHER RISE [Carlo Rossetti]
  • GHOST THIMBLE [John A. M. Howie]
  • BOLT AND FRAME [G. Legman]
  • THE LOTUS [G. Legman]
  • LOTUS AND BOW-TIE [G. Legman]
• CHAPTER 2 Conjuring with Coins and Paper Money
  • PENNY-TRATION [Harry Baker]
  • WRAPAROUND VANISH
  • FADEAWAY
  • SITTING VANISH [Bill Simon]
  • BACK PALM SWITCH [Charles Eastman
  • SILVER-COPPER [Dr. Theodore Sack]
  • HANK DROPPER [E. Brian MacCarthy]
  • REWARD [John A. M. Howie]
  • THE HARD WAY [Stewart Judah
  • NECROMANCY [Derek Vernon]
  • THE RIP
  • THE FOLD-AROUND
  • PERFECTION [H. P. Graham]
• CHAPTER 3 The Magician Performs with Rings, Ropes, and Silks
  • BAGUETTE [Paquette]
  • THUMB...

• ...
  • ... Trick (new method.
  • Long-distance Second Sight
• CHAPTER VIII: MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
  • Flash Paper
  • A New Fire Flash
  • Conjurer's Ammunition
  • Smoke from Two Empty Pipes
  • A New Fire-eating Trick
  • Exploding Soap-bubbles
  • Walnut Shells and Pea
  • The Garter Trick
  • The Tube and Ball
  • The Ubiquitous Thimble
  • The Multiplying Wand
  • The Restored Cut
  • The Mysterious Tambourine
  • The Bran and Dove Plates
  • The Wandering Beer
  • A Crystal Water Mystery
  • The Wizard's Breakfast
  • The Hydrostatic Tube
  • The Hydrostatic Tumbler
  • Watch, Glass, and Handkerchief
  • Paper Cone, Watch, Rabbit, and Boxes
• CHAPTER...

Excerpt from the Introduction:

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;...

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...

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   1. ... - Ring Rope Rose
   63. online video file available - Peter Samelson - The Bride
   63. online video file available - Peter Samelson - Getting Absorbed in the Times
   64. online video file available - Buster Keaton
   65. Influences - Peter Samelson
   69. Magic - Peter Samelson - Mimetic Slo-Mo Show'n Vanish Thimble
78. Light from the Lamp - Reviews
    78. Videos Reviewed by Dustin Stinett
        • The Skinner Tapes (3-disc set) - Michael Skinner
        • Mr. Electric Unplugged = Marvyn Roy
        • The Heinous Collection, Volumes 1-3 - Karl Hein
    81. Books Reviewed by David Britland
        • Calculated chaos - Chris Westfall
        • True Mysteries II - Fraser Parker & Gavin P'Rourke-Soccorso
        • Close Culls - Harapan Ong
    84. Tricks Reviewed by David Oliver
        • Wallet Weapon - Lloyd Barnes
        • Blind Date - Stephen Leathwaite
        • Spontaneous Combustion - Geronimo Granell ...

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...

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