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1. ...It's News, It Is! - re: Jack Ziter (Jay Zee), the Hypnotist) & Charlie Conrad
27. Does Hyp Act on Navy Show - re: J. P. Mintz
27. Magic Circle Annual Supper
27. Two Well-Knowns Pass On - re: C. A George Newmann & 2-10 Daniel

1. The "Tops" - Volume 18, Number 3 - March 1953 - 32 pages
1. With the Editor - Mel
1. Contents
2. Wrapping the Silks - Roxy
2. Stage Aces - Bryce Chambers
3. Thimble Magic - Roxy
4. Anagramatic Facsimile - Stewart James
5. Magical Card Finesse - Jerry Hornak
   • Rear Palm Color Change
   • Smart Glimpsing
   • The Perfect Cut
7. Cut and Restored Ribbon - Bob Thompson
8. Some Magical Twists - V. C. Kitchen
   • Some Prediction Ideas (12)
   • Odds and Ends (22)
12. Magic...

1. ... [Mario Amando Vigna] - E. Leslie Briant
27. Anna H. Tripp Dies

1. The "Tops" - Volume 19, Number 3 - March 1954 - 32 pages
1. With the Editor - Mel
1. Contents
2. Houdini Escapes - A Routine with Rabotine - Julius P. Hopkins
2. Patter for Blendo - Rhyme
3. Sleights Nouveau - Roxy
   • Cigarette Vanish
   • Thimble Vanish
   • Another Cigarette Vanish
   • Selected Card Change
4. Correction - error in sketch for last month's Hanging Straight-Jacket Escape
4. Fifteen Cents a Cup
5. It Happened in Nanking - Percy Abbott
5. One, Two and Three (A Second Version) - Roxy
6. Milk Turnover
7. Sucker Rope Trick - Scotty Lang
8. Mathematix - A Card Discovery...

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  1. ... Jubilee - Wilford Hutchinson
  12. IGP Stage Show in L. A. - Steve Heutter - re: International Guild of Prestidigitators
  12. re: Bill Neff
  12. Jaycees Honor [J. Ray] Beffel
  12. Boys Associates at Columbus
  12. Paul Ricketts Dies
  17. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
      • reviews
        • Crack Comedy - Robert Orben
        • Thimble Trix - Chester Dobski
        • Two Card Monte - Al Saal
      • Now for the magazines
        • The Wizard, September thru January
        • M-U-M, February, March & April
        • Abracadabra, Nos. 469-482
        • The Magic Wand Quarterly, December
        • The Modern Magi, March, April & May
        • Genii, The Conjurors' Magazine, April & May
        • Magical Digest, January, February & March ...

January 1956 - December 1956
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

389 pages

1. The "Tops" - Volume 21, Number 1 - January 1956 - 32 pages
1. With the Editor - Mel
1. Contents
2. Bank Night Supreme - Roxy
3. Aero Silks - Bert Douglas
4. Another Thumb Tie
   • Patter and Presentation ...

1. ... - Roxy
4. One for the Record - Kobold
4. Patter for "Stung" - Monte Sweigard
5. Pocketed! - Card to Pocket - Roxy
   • Method One
   • Method Two
5. re: Jim Reneaux
6. A Comedy Opening - Marshall Murdaugh
6. Excel Second Sight Act
   • Chart
8. "All Fair" Card Trick - Frank Shepherd
8. Color Changing Thimble - Roxy
   • Alternative Sleight
9. Amazing Card Miracles - Mahendra, The Mystic (F. B. Sterling) - continued
   • Hugh Johnson False Shuffle
   • False Cuts
   • The Jordan False Cut
   • The Lightning Card Counter
   • Table of Short Cuts
   • Patter for Counting Cards
12. Torn Card Trick ...

1. ...
   • ...
     • ... Speaks
     • AIMC Bulletin, July, August & September
     • A.M.C. Bulletin
     • Boston Barnstormer
     • Gospel Maginews, December
     • Hade-E-Gram
     • The New Phoenix
   • Tip of the Month
     • eyelet punch
29. Dragon Reincarnate - Vernon E. Lux
    • Marlo's Pot Pourri
    • Thimble Move
    • Miser's Dream Tip
30. McAthy's Ventopics - George McAthy
31. Mentalism & Things Psychic - Bob Nelson
32. Gospel Magic - Rev. Robert E. Olson
    • routine for handkerchief ball - George LaFollette
33. Kid Show Forum - Bruce Posgate
34. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Printed Thought ...

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...

1. ... & Things Psychic - Bob Nelson
18. Backing the Winner - Stewart James
19. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • reviews
      • Directory of magicians, societies and dealers - C. Field
      • yearly index of Magical Book Publications - C. Field
      • Technicolor Thimbles - Supreme
      • Jumbo Thimble Surprise - Supreme
      • Thimble Through Silk - Supreme
      • Thimble Dye - Supreme
      • Fantastic Thimbles - Supreme
      • The Hindu Rope - Johnny Ould
      • The Artful Dodges of Eddie Fields
      • dice effect - Ned Rutledge
      • The Impromptu Card Rise - Joseph K. Schmidt
      • Kid Stuff Volume 4 - Frances Ireland Marshall
      • Ireland Year Book 1967-68
    • Invitation to Mystery ...

Recil Bordner, Publisher
Neil Foster Editor

609 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 9, Number 1 - January 1969 - 52 pages
1. Cover - Dick Oslund
3. Contents
4. Cover Portrait - Dick Oslund - by Dennis R. Loomis
   • A Day with Dick Oslund's "Fun and Fantasy" - Rev. Robert Olson
7. Sid Lorraine's Tip...

1. ... Congress - Benjamin J. Kleinman
38. Just for Us Young Guys - John Sherwood
    • Starting In Magic (Part Eight of a Series)
    • Magician of the Month - Steve Rodman
39. A New Star is Born
    • Miss Shelly Annette Fisher to Mr. & Mrs. Duane Fisher
40. Duke's Crazy Page - Duke Stern
    • Thimble Through Hand Routine - Bob Rydeen
41. Mentalism and Things Psychic - Bob Nelson
42. photos - The New Houdinys - Star Attraction, Tower Circus, Blackpool, England
43. Fox Tales - Karrell Fox
44. Gospel Magic - Rev. Robert E. Olson
    • A Lively Lemon
    • Foo Can or Escaping from Egypt
45. Kid Show Forum - Bruce Posgate
47. Selling Safety Magic - Walter Wilson
    • Professor's Nightmare - Tommy Windsor
48. Final Curtain
    • Al Snyder - by Tommy Windsor
49. Tops Sends Get-Well Wishes To
    • Sam Sterns
49. Ken Griffin Recovers - by Roberta Griffin
49. Poetess' Corner - Marie...

Recil Bordner, Publisher
Neil Foster Editor

657 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 12, Number 1 - January 1972 - 52 pages
1. Cover - James Hagy
5. Contents
6. Cover Portrait - James Hagy - by Neil Foster
7. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
   • Color Prediction with Three Spectators
8. Gospel Magic...

Recil Bordner, Publisher
Neil Foster, Editor

621 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 17, Number 1 - January 1977 - 60 pages
1. Cover - Richard & Maria Suey
9. Abbott's Magic Talent Contest
9. Contents
10. Cover Portrait - Richard & Maria Suey - by Neil Foster
12. Out of My Mind - Looking Into Things Mental and...

1. ... - 52 pages
1. Cover - Mark Brandyberry
6. Your Editor's Swan Song - Neil Foster
7. Contents
8. Cover Portrait - Mark Brandyberry - by Neil Foster
10. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • miscellaneous
      • Magi - periodical from Denmark
      • Editions, Techniques du Spectacle - circulars
      • Thimble Magic - Girard Majax
      • Supreme Magic - catalog
      • advertising - Tannens, Hank Lee, Micky Hades International & Lee Jacobs
    • A Few Words About the Magazines
      • Magick
      • Genii
      • The Chronicles
      • Interlocutor
      • New Image L'Majik Satirica
      • The Numismatic Newsletter
      • Current Comedy
      • The Blue Print
      • Magigram
      • Hocus Pocus
      • New Pentagram
      • Mystics Quarterly
      • Legerdemain
      • Magic Info
      • The Talon
      • Magic Sounds
      • Boston Barnstormer
      • Magicteen's Minizene
      • Top Hat
      • Yogi-Gram
      • The Wizard's Potpourri
      • Washington Wizards
      • Bat Droppings
      • The Spellbinder ...

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  1. ...
     • ...
       • ... Products
       • New Improved Color Changing Records - Chu's Magic Shop
       • Billy McComb, Volume 5 - Magicassette
       • A Traveller's Tale - Percy Press - Magicassette
       • Abracassetta, March & April issues
  13. Cocktail Magic - re: show at Lawrry's restaurant
  14. Sampler
      • a thimble effect - Duke Stern - reprinted from "Latest Thimble Magic"
  15. Opinion
      • Henry B. Valleau
  15. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
      • It's A Joke(r)!
  16. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
  18. Padding the Deck Switch - Tom Gagnon
  20. Senior Citizen's Brunch and Party
  21. Kid Show Forum - Bruce Posgate
  23. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
  24. Magic for the Gospel Magician - Ralph C. Mills
      • Super Needled Balloon effect - Jim Payne
  25. Tom-Foolery - Tom Mullica
  26. Viewpoint! - Mark Brandyberry
  27. On the Road ... with the Amazing Conklins -...

1. ... of the Month
   • replacing the ink with paper in a BIC pen with Transparent barrel
35. Magic-Up-Date - Richard Greeno
35. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • The Gambler, Again
36. [four] Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
37. Gimmicks, Gadgets & Optical Illusions - Robert E. Olson
    • Wooden Thimble Production
    • Second Ball Production
    • Thimble Color Change
40. [two] Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
41. Flashback!
    • The Panel Chest - Joel Ross
    • Tipsy Turvy Production Box - Joel Ross The Magic Cupboard - Joel Ross
44. Performed with Joy and Kindness in the Style of the Turn of the Century - Marco the...

1. ... - Phil Goldstein
32. Cover Story - The Amazing Conklins! - Jerry and Shirley
33. [ Invitation to Mystery ] 3rd Series - Stewart James
    • The Unloser!
34. Printout - Barry Govan
35. Special - Harlan Tarbell Ring 43 Annual Magic Show - Clettis Musson
37. Routining Magic For Live Video - Gerald Burns
    • Thimble Routine
40. The Digital Clock - Ed Marlo
42. Men of Magic - Robert E. Olson

1. The New Tops - Volume 24, Number 9 - September 1984 - 52 pages
1. Cover - All Trick Issue
2. [four] Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
1. Contents
2. Magic That Perks - Harry E. Cecil
   2. Forword
   3. Introduction
   4. Opening Patter - And Now ... Please Bring Your Chairs Up Close and Learn Something ... The Start
   5. The Fir Tree
   7. Banana Bag
   8. Comedy Egg Bag
   10. Laundry Ticket
   10. Sun and Moon
   13. Slate Prophecy
   15. Card in Cigarette ...

1. ...
   • ...
     • ...
   • New Tricks I've Seen
     • Industrial Strength Link - Richard Osterlind
     • Howdini Escape - Stan Lobenstern
     • Ready II - Stan Lobenstern
     • Hellstrom-Card - Stan Lobenstern
     • Rough King Spray - Aldini
     • Noughts and Crosses - Ken de Courcy
     • Symbology - Ken de Courcy
     • Thimble Rig - Steve Dusheck
14. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
    • The Secret Grove
      • re: Borley Rectory
16. Forum - Bruce Posgate
18. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
20. This Business of Magic - Thomas Zoss
    • Using Trade Show Magic
21. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
23. The Aldini Connection
    • The Zodiac Deck
    • Out in Space
1. four-page advertising insert
25. Conjuring...

1. ...
   • ...
     • ... Show Tutorial - audio cassette - Flora & Co.
     • Poly-Gripped - Steve Dusheck
     • Black Plot - Pavel
     • The Pipe Cleaners Thumb Tie - Supreme
     • Deluxe Velvet Change Bag - Supreme
     • coin in nest of brass boxes - Al Cohen
     • Jimmy Rogers' I'll Do It Again - paddle trick - Al Cohen
     • Thimble Rigging - Al Cohen
     • Blade Runner - Al Cohen
     • cotton reel on a stick - Paul Diamond
     • card found printed on shirt sleeve - Paul Diamond
     • lecture notes - Paul Diamond
21. Royal reversal - Phil Goldstein
23. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
24. cartoon strip - Ed Harris
29. Subject: Illusions - David Seebach
36. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
38. Men of Magic - Robert Olson
40. Cover Story - re: Harry Blackstone, Jr.
41. For Women Only - Frances Marshall ...

1. ...
   • ...
     • ... Krenzel Classics - Volumes 1 to 3 - video tapes - Videonics
     • The Therapy of Laughter - audio tape - Doyne Michie - Flora & Co.
     • Money Moves - Karl Fulves
     • Prototype - Karl Fulves
     • And a Packet of Cards - Karl Fulves
     • Performing Miracles - Leslie Melville
     • Cigarette Through Thimble - Supreme
     • Thimble Chink-A-Chink - Supreme
     • The Secrets of Brother John Hamman - Richard Kaufman
34. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris
35. For Women Only - Frances Marshall
37. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
38. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
40. cartoon - Why Magicians Get Gray - Ed Harris
41. Magic-Up-Date - Richard & Nancy Greeno
42. Vent Views - Bill Boley
    • Vent-O-Rama 1989
    • To Rose with Love - Col. Bill Boley
44. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • "Panef White Powdered White Lubricant"
44. Cover Story - re: George Johnstone and Paul Daniels

1. The New Tops...

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  1. ... lighted candle from the pocket
  191. To produce an omelet without eggs
  200. To produce yards of ribbon from the mouth
  197. To reproduce a piece of paper that has been torn up
  196. To stick a knife through a person's finger
  201. To suspend a ball in the air and make it run about without any apparent support
  194. Travelling thimble, the
  199. Trick carrot, the
  191. Vanishing glass of water, the
  189. Vanishing wand, the
• CHAPTER XII
  202. TRICKS WITH MATCHES AND NUMERALS
  202. Animated matches, the
  207. Four squares changed to three
  209. Magical properties of the number nine, the
  208. Square of nine, the
  207. To form four triangles with six matches
  206. To...

For a long time I had the perception that magic with thimbles is at best something for kids. Then I saw a performance by a Japanese magician. And it blew my mind. It was a fast paced, very visual and beautiful manipulation performance.

In this booklet Hugard teaches all the moves and quite a few routines to build your own thimble act. One of the big advantages of thimbles is that they are easier to manipulate than other objects such as balls and coins.

1st edition, 1936 Max Holden, New York; 46 pages

3. Chapter 1: The Thimbles
9. Chapter 2: Advanced Sleights
22. Chapter 3: The First Thimble ...