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  • ... Esler
  • Floored! / Bill Bishop
• No. 11: August 1949
  • A Matter Of Some Gravity / Anon, Herbert Milton, Peter Warlock
  • Over My Shoulder! / Sid Emons
  • Mental Persuasion / Francis Haxton
  • The Shape Of Things To Come / Charles Gardner
  • Magical Magazines / Stewart James
• No. 12: September 1949
  • Knife In Hand / Percy Naldrett, Douglas Dexter
  • Cream Of The Jest / Peter Warlock
  • "A Boy, A Bag And Some Eggs!" / Francis White

• No. 1: October 1949
  • Jiffy Slate / Louis Histed
  • On Threading A Needle / Eric De La Mare
  • Chameleon Thimbles Again / Peter Sutton
• No. 2: November...

A no nonsense introduction to knife throwing. Ken shows you how you can start throwing knives without spending a lot of money. He covers all the basics that will have you throwing and hitting your targets in no time.

1st edition 2011; 28 pages.

Table of Contents

• Why knife throwing
• Getting it out of your system
• General Safety
• A bit about knives
• Targets
• Location, location, location
• Choose your weapon
• Grip
• Stance
• The wind-up
• The release
• Distance
• The miss
• How most people fail
• Making adjustments
• Consistency

• ...
  • ... Game
  • Fair Dice
  • The Pad And Blanket Roll
  • First Roll Odds
  • Chances
• How To Call Heads Or Tails On A Coin And Never Miss
• Five Sure Ways Of Getting Work
• Carnival and Fairground Setups: Skin games and games of chance
  • The Bucket
  • The Swinging Ball
  • The Jingle Board
  • Spot The Spot
  • The Trick Knife
  • The Punch Board
  • The Cat Rack
  • The Wheel
  • The Electric Wheel
  • Bent Down Pegs
• Exposing the Short Change Artist
  • The Hard And Soft Hype
  • The Weighing Chair
• Gambling Cons
  • Sensation Pocket Roulette Carried In Your Pocket
  • Put And Take Top
  • The Race Top
  • The Three Shell Game
  • A Story...

Please note that this video is in Vietnamese. However, the instructions to make the gimmick and how to perform it are all clearly presented visually.

A card, knife or other flat object penetrates another card.

1st edition 2018, length 8 min

• ... Force / Jack Avis
• Think A Word / Peter Warlock
• The G. D. Coin Fold / Gus Davenport
• Mexican Magnetism / Francis Haxton
• Lakelite 2
• Ingenious Perpetual Calendar / Grant Stuart

• Peripatetic Oranges / Ernest E. Noakes
• It's A Small World / Alex Elmsley
• Early Elmsley: Jeans Chameleon Knife / Alex Elmsley
• Action Palm No. 1: The Swing Cut Palm / Jack Avis
• From Aunt Teresa - with Love / Sam Dalal
• Action Palm No. 2: The Dribble Top Palm / Jack Avis

• Signet Surprise / Trevor Dawson
• Trigon 23 / Peter Warlock
• Making A Candle Light / Douglas Dexter
• Noswad's Palm / Trevor...

In ten seconds, you will be able to guess any information thought among two possibilities. It can be any effect where there are two outcomes.

• Improvised
• Very versatile principle
• Can be used in existing routines where you need to know for instance if a thought card is RED or BLACK, if a spectator likes something or not, etc.

• The nice thing about this principle, is that it is 100% impromptu, and even improvised.
• 100% Hands off
• No stooges
• No gimmick or electronics
• Works with many objects that can be borrowed (pen, knife/spoon/fork, lighter, eraser, card box, pack of cigarettes,...

• ... it go on whatever finger is required on the other hand, while somebody holds both your arms, in order to prevent any communication between them
• To guess, by smelling, which has been the number struck out by a person in the company, in the product of a multiplication given him to do
• To make a pen-knife, out of three, jump out of a goblet, agreeable to the option of the company
• To pull off any person's shirt, without undressing him, or having occasion for a confederate
• How to put a card in and out of an egg
• A Ring put into a Pistol, which is afterwards found in the Bill of a Dove in...

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384. Floral Surprise - English Without Tears! - Michael Symes
385. Left-Overs!
385. Graphology Plus - Paul Marcus
387. What Sid [Lorraine] Said ... about this Magazine
387. A Letter from New Zealand
388. Gag Bag Routine - Ken de Courcy
389. On the Square - Howard Gower
392. A Quick Turnover - Paul Marcus
393. Comedy Rope, Scissors and Knife Routine - Stanley Watson
397. Cig-Bits - Val Andrews
398. Pipped - Ravelle and Andree
399. advertisements

405. Volume 2, Number 7, September-October, 1969, 72 unnumbered pages
406. advertisements
411. Let's Face It - editorial by Ken de Courcy
412. Adair's Ideas - Ian Adair
     • Rip Up Flower Vanish
413. Bouquets from You to Us!
413. A Long Felt Want
414. It Happens to Us All - Bill Shewan
416. Edwin Calling! - comments from Edwin...

1. ... - R.B. Ferguson
28. Arthur Carter Column - The Mysteries of Arthur Carter
    • Exorcising the Devil's Daughter
29. George Blake Writes
    • Simple Prediction - Revised
31. Call Yourself a Magician - Harry Carnegie
    • Egg
    • Envelope
    • Elastic Band
    • Flower
    • Fan
    • Fountain Pen
    • Fork
32. 'Supreme' in Magic! - testimonial
33. Supreme in the U.S.A. - travel report
41. Routine for Nick Trost's Fool's Mate - Michael Symes
42. Cabaret Gloves to Flowers - Stanton Carlisle
43. Thanks to Okito - Dick Ferguson
46. Wade - Still in TV Land - John Wade
47. cartoon - Ken de Courcy
47. More Useful...

The Magigram, Volume 16, The Supreme Magic Company, Ken de Courcy, editor

Including an Index to Volume 16, 810 pages

• cover page and 24 page index to Volume 16

1. Volume 16, Number 1, September, 1983, 66 pages, including front & back covers
1. advertisements
7. Lets Face It - editorial by Ken de Courcy
8. The Supreme Slogan Competition - judged by Ken de Courcy
10. Your Face - Stan Lobenstern (USA)
11. Mental Hypnotism - Herb Rungay
11. Belted - Jack Bridwell
12. A Sucker Trick for the Tele-Frame - Pen-Ana - Ernie Jones
13. Patter Bits for Good-Bye Paper Tear - Eric Hawkesworth
14. A Routine for Nesto Box...

1. ... Best! - testimonials
665. Ganson's "Teach-In"
     • Yet Another Look at the Okito Box
671. Edwin's Magi-Go-Round - comments from Edwin Hooper
679. Kennaugh Kalling - Alan Kennaugh on the Show Business Scene
681. Publicity Gifts - testimonial
681. The Winners! - testimonial
682. The Rising Pip - Johnny Geddes
     • Knife Production
683. Showcase Presents - Popcorn Presto! - Frank Novotny and Floyd Shotts
     684. Snake Can
     685. Pop-a-Ball
     685. Pop-Up
     686. Ball vs. Pop Ball
     687. Strung Up
     688. Transportation
     689. Matter Composition (continued in June issue)
     690. Oh No! (begins in June issue)
692. Dis-Cardo - Arthur Setterington
692. Top Pro Praises Supreme - testimonial
693. Magic with Matches - John...

For magicians, most interesting is a section with arithmetic tricks and another with legerdemain featuring effects such as letting a pen-knife jump out of a goblet, some card tricks, coin tricks, and chemical tricks.

Table of Contents

• Of Astrological Influence
• Lives Of The Most Eminent Magicians, Astrologers, Conjurers, &c.
• On The Interpretation Of Dreams
• Apparitions, Witchcraft, &c.
• Philolosphical And Ingenious Amusements
  • A person having fixed on a number in his mind, to tell him what number it is
  • Another method of discovering a number thought on
  • A quantity of eggs being broken,...

1. ...
   • ... - Openers
     • The Vanishing Wand
     • The Penetrating and Rising Wand
     • The Magnetic Wand
     • The Wand from Purse
30. Hand Made Magic - series by Edward Victor
    • Rainbow Fingertips - A Routine with Coloured Thimbles
    • Manipulator's Corner
      • An Invisible Pass
      • Pen-Knife Card Force
      • The Glimpse
33. Sheer Chance - Two Methods for this Popular Effect - Peter Cavour
34. A Modern Spectacular Illusion - The Shower Bath Illusion - Jay Palmer
36. In the Steps of Merlini - series by Arthur F. G. Carter
    • The Discovery of a Mentally Selected Card
      • A Simplified System of Edge Marking
      • The Presentation ...

1. ... is required on the other Hand, while somebody holds both your Arms, in order to prevent any communication between them.
59. Chap. XXXI. To guess by smelling, which has been the Number struck out by a Person in the Company, in the Product of a Multiplication given him to do.
63. Chap. XXXII. To make any Pen-knife out of three jump out of a Goblet, agreeable to the Option Company
64. Chap. XXXIII. To pull off any Person's Shirt, without undressing him, or having Occasion for a Confederate

BLADE RUNNER: A card is selected then lost in the deck. You take a pen-knife and thrust it into the outer end of the deck. When you pull the knife out again, a card is seen to be impaled on the blade. Alas, this is the wrong card! However, you ask the spectator to pull the card off the knife. When he does, he finds that it has changed into his card. Any deck can...

SPIRITED CARD STAB
This is Ben's favourite handling and what he is using to close his professional shows. A deck is shuffled face up and face down by a spectator, spread upon the table and covered with a sheet of newspaper. A knife is introduced and the spectator is asked to THINK OF A CARD. Once she has done this, she is asked to imagine the spirit of the card flowing down her arms, through her wrists, into her hands and finally into the knife. AT NO TIME DOES SHE REVEAL HER THOUGHT OF CARD. The performer now takes the...

1. ... Lowe
70. The Modern Shell Game
75. The Great Purse Swindle - Frederica
78. The Phoenix Pound - Pat Sprake
80. Unfair Shake - Horace Bennett

    Chapter Five: Paddle Parade

88. Spots And Paddle Routine - Frederica
90. Sympathetic Matches - Bento
94. Bento's Bat - Bento
95. Slippery Rocks - Dick Zimmerman
98. Colour-Change Knife Routine - Niberco
100. Simplex Knife Routine - Rink

     Chapter Six: That Nut Again

102. Brema Nut Routine - Jack Ganson
103. Bolted - Fred Lowe
106. With The Brema Nut - Arnold Deseiver

     Chapter Seven: Weird Ones

108. The Thing
112. Dual Control
118. Voodoo - Albert Spackman
120. Patter For Voodoo - Syd Bergson
120. A Telling...

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  • ... Done
  • Color Changing Button
  • Triple Color Change
  • Spool, Coin, And Card Mystery
  • Continuous Card Penetration
  • Magic Glue
  • Glass, Card And Button Mystery
  • Mysterious Penetration
• Chapter Thirteen: A Mixture Of Magical Marvels
  • Joining The Colors
  • The Thief Of Bagdad
  • Flying Knots
  • Penetrative Knife
  • Card Cubes
  • Magic Whiskey Glass
  • Multiple Liquor Production
  • Anti Gravity Cup
  • Cockeyed Checker Board
  • Cigarette To Egg
  • Four-To-One Golf Balls
  • Color Changing Knife
  • Rainbow Balls
• Chapter Fourteen: Last Minute Additions
  • Completing The Colors
  • Flash Silk Appearance
  • Flash Silk Appearance...

1. ...
2. The Relation Of Magic To Other Sciences
3. The Principles Of Card Effects
4. Confidence And Enthusiasm
5. The Penetrating Ring; The Jumping Rubber Band; Thumb Tie With Rubber Band; The Japanese Thumb Tie
6. Cards That Pass In The Night; The Cards Up The Sleeve
7. The Regular Pass; The Card Stab; The X-Ray Knife; The Magnetic Knife
8. The Force; Producing A Card From A Whole Orange; The Card And The Banana; The Bewitched Banana
9. Guide To Card Positions; Various Principles Of Palming And Shifts; The Conjurer's Touch; A Mysterious Discovery; "Marvello"; Cards, Envelope, And Hat
10. "Tack It"; New Era Version Of Card Through Handkerchief; Three Cards Through The Handkerchief; Rising...

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  1. ... Watch, and Glass
  227. The Changing Handkerchiefs
  231. The Mysteriously Joined Handkerchiefs
• MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
  241. The Chinese Rings
  249. Coin, Card, and Paper
  255. The Mutilated Parasol
  266. The Flag Trick
  273. The Ring on Stick
  275. The Flower Trick
  280. The Tambourine Trick
• PARLOUR TRICKS
  288. Two Corks
  289. Suspended Knife
  289. Safety Reading Lamp
  290. To Balance Plate on Needle
  290. Bottle Cannon
  291. Shark in Fish-pond
  292. Novel Soup Tureen Stand
  292. Simple Handkerchief Trick
  293. Dodge with a Sixpence
  293. Experiment with Corks
  294. Pins into Glass Full of Water
  294. Magnetised Paper
  295. A Simple Coin Trick
  295. To Pick up Floating Ball
  296. Home-made Cinematograph ...

Table of Contents

• The Compiler's Excuse
• "A Touching Trick"
• "Spotting the Winner"
• "A Card Catastrophe"
• "The Mystic Sunflower"
• "Guess!"
• "The Enchanted Fan"
• The Penetrative Pocket-knife
• "The Painted Skeleton"
• A New Principle for the "Four Aces," with marked Cards
• "Silk and Tissue"
• "An Episode in Three Reels"
• Effects with Billiard Balls
• "A Jar of Incense"
• A Card and Cigarette Paper Combination

1st edition 1922, 93 pages; PDF 50 pages.

• ...Ghost Walks Escape
• Grin Skull
• Guillotine
• Guillotine on Wheels
• Handy Halloweener
• Hathaway Sefalaljia
• Haunted Flower Pot
• Haunted House
• Haunted Mill
• Haunted Window
• Head in Web
• Headless Woman
• Hellstromism
• Hippity Hop Skeletons
• How to Make a Monster
• Invulnerable lady
• It Floats
• Impromptu Devils Hank
• Knife Through Thumb
• Living and Dead Tests (12 versions)
• Living Head
• Mabel Illusion
• Magic Mirror
• Magic Mummy (12 effects)
• Magician Ghost and Girl
• Man Without a Head
• Medium Knows It
• Miracles With Spikes
• Mirror of Fate
• Modernistic Amputation
• Moth and the Flame
• Mummy Cloth of the Nile
• New...

• ...Sum Total
• Practising
• Swami Yoga
• Synchronised Shaking
• Tearable Profanity
• Hecklers
• Theatrical Thumb Writing
• The £1000 Challenge
• The Borrowed Note
• The Mind-Reading Hat
• The Newspaper Tear Presentation
• The Three Card Trick
• The Tie Routine
• The Watch Thing
• Utility Hat Switch
• Vanishing Bottle
• Wanda (Knife Through Jacket)
• Entertaining Children And Families
• More Of Mel’s One Liners

1st edition 2016, PDF 151 pages.

1. ...Four Fold Sympathy
239. Telepathic Control
241. Cards and Pockets
242. Count Down Detection
242. The Adventures of Diamond Jack

245. The Svengali Deck
245. Various Methods of Handling the Pack
246. Simple Effects
248. Switching Packs (7 methods)
248. The Three Heaps
249. Cutting the Pack With a Knife
249. The Wrapped Pack
249. Any Heap
249. Reversed Card
250. The Unseen Card
250. Think of A Card
250. Card Stabbing
250. Svengali Prediction
251. The Mystery Problem
252. The Cards and the Dice
252. Svengali Clairvoyance
252. The Prize Winner
253. The Mirage Principle
253. Mirage Deck
254. The Eye Popper
254. Svengali Mind Reading
254. The Siamese Svengali Pack
255. Svengali Force