This is number five of Jordan's Ten New Tricks Series with contributions by Dr. E. G. Ervin and Louis C. Haley. It includes some of the most popular effects formerly marketed singly by Jordan.
1st edition, 1920, Charles T. Jordan, Penngrove; 23 pages.
Three more performance pieces designed with maximum entertainment in mind. Each effect includes sample scripts, handling's, and the all important presentational hooks with the emphasize on comedy.
POCKET POWER
Cards are shown portraying various items a person may have in their pockets such as, keys, pills, spectacles, etc. The performer invites the spectator to place various cards in their pocket (doesn't have to be pocket). Using x-ray vision (can place some x-ray specs on) the magician correctly identifies the items and the pockets.
to really make it mine. I imagined the spectators asking themselves, "Why is he carrying knives?" "Why are they changing color?" and most importantly, "Why should I care?" Early in my restaurant career, I tried the opening gambit usually attributed to Ron Wilson: "Excuse me, did you lose a white pocketknife? No? How about a black one?" I always half-expected someone to answer "yes" to my first question, take the knife out of my hand, put it in their pocket, and then turn back to their dinner companions. I filed the trick away and consigned it to the list of effects that I enjoyed doing but...
... in the centre, but this time the card goes down to the bottom. As a big finish, the card is inserted face upward between the back up deck. A little magic touch with the box will be sufficient for the appearance of the face up card on the deck.
COLOUR CHANGING KNIVES: The magician shows a white pocketknife, does a magic move and turns it into a red one. Another magic move and it turns white. Another magic move and it turns red again. Then he says that he will explain how it's done: actually he has hidden other white knife in the left hand and does the change with a lot of skill, which he demonstrates two times, though it's impossible to see how he realizes the change. Then he puts the red one in the left hand and the white one in the right hand and with a subtle movement,...
Just 3 cards for you to carry in your wallet or pocket. One mystic card, one emotional card and one funny card. All are business card size. All are pre-written (or pre-printed if you so wish.) And you are ready to perform anytime, anywhere to anyone.
You can, at a moment's notice, entertain a single person or a small group by involving up to 6 participants.
Completely self working. Instant repeatable with different outcomes. Nothing to reset. Easy to perform. No stooges....
Coins Up the Sleeve (3 pp., 2 ill.), and a trick called Money Attracts Money in which four coins are made to pass, one by one, from right to left hand. For lovers of silk handkerchief magic there is a combination entitled Color-Change, Penetration, and Vanish (6 pp., 8 ill.). The Color-Changing Knife (9 pp., 17 ill.) is a detailed treatment of six sleights and a full routine. Thimble Manipulation (16 pp., 28 ill.) is second only to billiard-ball magic in breadth of coverage; for the author here describes several kinds of thimbles and holders, explains sleights, and winds up with a thimble...
If you already own Karma Deck Pro or buy along with this, you can get this ebook for half price.
Are you alone and deckless? No problem. Now "deckless" does not mean "powerless" anymore. Just have this one single Kommando Kard with you in your wallet or pocket and you are set to perform these 15 amazing routines, without ever needing a deck of playing cards.
Yes, this is deckless stack magic and deckless card mentalism rolled into one. A path breaking style and refreshingly new way of performing card mentalism using the Karma Deck stack (you will need to be familiar with the Karma Deck), but without having a...
Kellar's Wonder Book was a booklet that Kellar published for his audiences. It is full of magic tricks, games, optical illusions, stunts, and other useful knowledge such as how to turn a pocketknife into a compass or how to draw a spiral.
1st edition 1903, 1st digital edition 2013, 54 pages.
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