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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 ...

• ...
  • ... Christopher
  • HAL HAVILAND REVIEWS CALVERT SHOW
  • RAMEE SAMI SAYS
  • CHATS BY KOLAR
  • SHOWMANSHIP FOR MAGICIANS - The Great Leon
  • JJP REVIEWS ZOLOTOW'S "THE GREAT BALSAMO"
  • CIGARETTE SLEIGHTS - Sam Berland
  • MAGIC CAMPAIGN TO SWEEP COUNTRY
• No 10:
  • SPEAKING OF PICTURES: Norman Jensen, John Piatt
  • THIMBLE PRODUCTION - Jimmie Wilson Sr
  • SUPER-LEVITATION - Walton Morris
  • MAKE IT SHORT - Marian Day
  • YOUTH TRIUMPHS AT PASADENA
  • OVETTE'S LEGACY - Glen Towns
  • LITTLE EFFECT - BIG RESULTS - C. S. Weller
  • IMPOSSIBLE IMP BOTTLE - George Andrew
  • PRODUCTION SURPRISE - Bill Kalman
  • 3 EFFECTS - By Robert...

• ...
  • ... IN MAGIC - George LaFollette
  • HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE
• No 4:
  • SPEAKING OF PICTURES: Bill and Mary Chaudet, Jay and Doreen Palmer
  • A COIN DECEPTION - Arthur Buckley
  • CONJUROR'S CORNER - Glen E. Towns
  • GAS FROM A BUSTED BALLOON - Grover A. Smith
  • THE DANGERS OF HYPNOTISM - Jenni Lea
  • IMPROVED THIMBLE THROUGH HANDKERCHIEF - Kalman
  • GEN. GRANT REPORTING
  • BRUCE REYNOLDS' SPOT LIGHT
  • THE BOUNTIFUL BIRDCAGE - Jayastii
  • 4th DIMENSIONAL GLASS - Sir Felix Korim
  • A MYSTERY WITH A HALF AND A SHELL - J. B. Bobo
  • ON THE MAGIC BOOKSHELF
  • HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE
  • TRICKS I LIKE - Bill Chaudet
  • THE BACHELOR...

This is volume 5 of The New Conjurors' Magazine.

• No 1:
  • Speaking of Pictures: Richiardi, Chang
  • Abracadabra by Arthur Buckley
  • A Man Named Le Roy by George LaFollette
  • The Atomic Gun by Eddie Joseph
  • East Indian Rope Trick by Felix Korim
  • Liquid Mystery by Andrew Smythe
  • New Three Coin Trick...

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 ...

These were Ken de Courcy's USA lecture tour notes. It includes great material which puts entertainment first and foremost.

• The Haired Card - a comedy surprise with four outsize cards from a pack.
• Balloon Prediction - three balloons, the audience nominate the colors, these magically burst one at...

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:

• ...
  • ... 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.

1. ...
   • ... Wringer Idea - Phil Goldstein (Mr. Zero)
   • From the Stuart Cramer Notebook
     • Walking Thru A Ribbon Patter
39. Used Magic - New Lamps For Old
39. Twenty-Five Years Ago in "Tops"
    • Passe-Passe Combination - U. F. Grant
    • Simplex - Diminishing Cigarette Packet - Allan Lambie
    • Thimble Production Wand - Allan Lambie
40. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • "Kleen Stik Metalizer Mylar"
41. Fox Tales - Karrell Fox
    • folding money bill gag - Jack Sandorse
42. For Women Only - Frances Ireland Marshall
43. Magic Nuts I Have Known - by One of Them
    • Rick Rogers
44. London Notes - Wilford Hutchinson, Jr.
45. Mentalism & Things Psychic - Bob Nelson
46. The Dragon - Page dedicated to Vernon E. Lux
    • The...

1. ... Election - Stephen Huetter
22. I.B.M. - The 38th Annual I.B.M. Convention - Benjamin J. Kleinman
    • Election of Officers for 1966-1967
23. Shiels on Spookers - Tony Shiels
24. Tops Photo Quiz & Answer to Last Month's Photo Quiz
25. Twenty-Five Years Ago in "Tops"
    • A Penetrating Thimble - Walter A. Schwartz
    • Are You a Magician? - Rev. Willard S. Smith
    • The Deuce You Say - W. Harold Howatt
26. The Dragon - Page dedicated to Vernon E. Lux
    • Memoirs of a Small Town Entertainer - Harry Opel
      • Chapter Eleven
27. Mentalism & Things Psychic - Bob Nelson
28. McAthy's Ventopics - George McAthy
    • What Do You Know? - John J. Bogorae [MSgt]
29. The Mirror - poem - Harry Opel
29. Brotherhood - Benjamin J. Kleinman
30. Patter & Presentation - Gene Gordon
    • The Frame of Life and Death ...

1. ...
   • ...
6. Igor Kio in New York City - Milbourne Christopher
10. Magic Under the Sun - Frances Ireland Marshall
14. It's a Mystery to Me - Clarke "The Senator" Crandall
17. Tops Picture Museum (See Back Cover) - Milbourne Christopher's Hindu Basket Illusion
18. The Dragon - Page dedicated to Vernon E. Lux
    • A Thimble Act for Parlor - Bob Parrish
    • Yuletide - poem - Harry Opel
19. The Blackstone Memorial Fund - Karrell Fox
20. Just for Us Young Guys - John Sherwood
    • Magician of the Year - Dick Cady
22. Christopher's Quick Change Illusion - Milbourne Christopher
23. The New Tops - Tops 1967 Trick Annual - 24 pages
    23. Contents
    24. Thoughtography - Sid Lorraine
    26. Danger - Men at Work - Bert Douglas
    27. Hangman's-Noose Escape - North Bigbee ...

Scores of street scams, swindles, and card table ruses are explained in this 163 page ebook, guaranteed to separate a sucker from his money just as quickly today as when this tome was first written in the mid-1800s. Don't read this book to cheat -- instead, get it for protection so you don't become...

This is an unusual mix of contents including magic card tricks, card games and how gamblers cheat at those games, other swindles and scams, a section on dice and cheating at dice games, as well as moralizing against the evils of gambling.

Jonathan H. Green was a reformed gambler, who made a career...

• ...
  • ... Were Called Greeks
  • Gaming Table Slang And Manoeuvres
  • Specimen Of A Quasi Gaming House Circular
• CHAPTER VIII. The Doctrine Of Probabilities Applied To Gambling.
• CHAPTER IX. The History Of Dice And Cards.
  • Cards
• CHAPTER X. Piquet, Basset, Faro, Hazard, Passe-Dix, Put, Cross And Pile, Thimble-Rig.
  • Piquet
  • Basset
  • Faro, Or Pharaoh
  • Hazard
  • Passe-Dix
  • Put
  • Cross And Pile
  • Thimble-Rig
• CHAPTER XI. Cock-Fighting.
• CHAPTER XII. The Turf, Historical, Social, Moral.
• CHAPTER XIII. Fortune-Telling By Cards (For Ladies).
  • Fortune-Telling Forty Years Ago; Or, The Story Of Martha...

• Dunninger Mango Tree Illusion
• The New Shower Of Gold
• The Vanishing Bowl Of Water
• The Dunninger Floating Ball Illusion
• Dunninger's Tri-Card Mystery
• A New Chair Servante
• A New Color Change
• The Wonderful Phonograph Illusion
• The Vanishing Dock Box
• The Dunninger Spirit Frame
• The Dunninger Rabbit Box
• An Effective Thimble Vanish
• The Vanishing Chair
• Quod's "All Change" Card Trick
• Dunninger Spirit Card
• Dunninger's Improved Card Reel
• Egg-Bag, Egg & Bird Trick

18 pages; PDF 28 pages.

KNIFE THRU COAT WITH NEW VARIATIONS. Berland revisits one of his favorite effects that, with this presentation, becomes a platform sensation.

DOUBLE SHOT VANISH. Two liquid-filled shot glasses vanish from your hands and leaves them gasping.

IMPROMPTU THIMBLE PRODUCTION. Produce a metal thimble on each finger without any gimmicks. Every trick is expertly illustrated by Thomas Libonati. This is an ebook that clearly and carefully teaches every trick. These are miracles that you will be proud to perform.

"This Knife Through Coat method is brilliant....

• ... card effect.
• Libation - Boldly produce a glass of (real) wine.
• Turnabout - Fools magicians.
• The Razor's Edge - Threaded razor blades on thread.
• Location No. 1 - Card location.
• Up Devil! - Card effect using the previous move.
• Me, Too! - New method of the Invisible Pass.
• Pop-Up - Impromptu thimble through handkerchief.
• A Deck Is Born - Produce a full deck of cards from nothing.
• Location No. 2 - Card location.
• Cortini? Frascati? Cremation - No-gimmick torn and restored paper strip.
• In Conclusion
• About the Author

"For me, the author's irreverent style had me hooked after the...

• ... 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...

Berland and friends bring you sixteen beautiful effects using silks, balls, cards, canes, watches, cigarettes, liquid, and more in this updated and expanded edition. Long out of print, this manuscript contains a pair of mysteries by Tenkai, as well as several baffling effects by Berland, as well as some choice bits by his friends.

Partial contents:

• The Homing Cup of Lemonade
• Popping Silk
• Challenge Quadruple Cigarette Vanish
• Samson Cane Trick
• Vanishing and Reappearing Thimble
• Watch and Chain to Handkerchief
• Double Color Change
• Flash Cigarette Package to Box of Matches
• Tenkai Figure...

• ... is very effective, including the separation of the halves. Devious method.
• Improved Torn and Restored Signed Card - A free selection of a card, signed by a spectator and torn into pieces, is restored.
• Haunted Cigarette Pack - A novelty effect in which a silk and cigarettes transpose themselves.
• Thimble Jumbo - A manipulative novelty that can be done anywhere.
• Ultra Prediction - An unbelievable effect, very convincing. Just add showmanship.
• Malini Outdone - A simplified version of a trick made famous by Malini.

"Sam Berland is one of our most original magicians when it comes to originating...

You will find here card tricks, cheating exposes, card games, and gambling stories.

A later expanded version of this book was published under the title Gamblers' Tricks With Cards Exposed and Explained.

• Chapter I
  • Invention Of Cards
  • Mysterious Trick Of Thirty Six Cards; Telling The Card...