1942/27
Written by Harlan Tarbell
Work of Various
416 pages (Hardcover), published by D. Robbins & Co., Inc.
Illustrated with drawings by Harlan Tarbell
Language: English
188 entries
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The P-L Vanishing Wand wand wrapped up in paper vanishes, paper shell
47
The Wandering Wand and Envelopes wand travels from one long envelope to another
50
Wand from Pocketbook from too small purse
51
Ed Reno Cigar from Pocketbook cigar from too small purse
53
Wand from Card Case
54
Simplex Handkerchief Producing Wand gaffed wand to produce handkerchief
55
Vanishing Handkerchief Wand vanishes inside wand
56
The Rising Wand rubber band
58
Sure-Grip Magnetized Wand
59
Harlan Tarbell Tarbell's Magnetized Wand thread
60
William G. Edwards Edwards' Magnetic Wand other things stick to wand
63
Harlan Tarbell Magnetic Rising Cards cards rise by touching deck with gaffed wand (page 63)
64
An Emergency Magnetic Wand if wand on page 63 is unavailable, tape
67
The Penetrating Wand sliding ends
67
Card in the Egg - Wand torn and restored card to egg
69
Rising Ring on Wand thread
73
Laurie Ireland Ireland's Growing Wand
75
Frank Kelly Vanishing Wand Routine wand vanishes and reappears on spectator's back
76
Superba Paper Cone for Handkerchief Vanish
79
Ralph W. Read, Harlan Tarbell The Ghostly Silk comedy silk from paper cone to glass
82
Puffing Rice in a Cone making popcorn in paper cone
85
The Two-Way Paper Cone vanishing, switching, producing silks, ...
86
1 - Vanishing Handkerchiefs using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
87
2 - Production of Silks using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
87
3 - Color Change of Silks using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
87
4 - The Knotted and Unknotted Silks using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
87
5 - Sympathetic Silks using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
87
6 - Cut and Restored Handkerchief using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
88
7 - Torn and Restored Tissue Paper using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
89
8 - Cards and Ribbon cards thread themself onto ribbon, using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
89
9 - Paper Linking Rings using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
90
10 - Patriotic Silks using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
90
11 - Twentieth Century Silks using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
90
Royal Paper Cone to vanish small flat objects
91
Century Card Vanishing Paper to vanish few cards
92
ACME Coin Vanishing Paper gaffed paper with pocket
93
Modern Coin Vanishing Paper gaffed paper with pocket
94
Coin Through the Saucer marked coin visibly penetrates saucer
96
The Miser's Dream full routine, using hat
99
Hand to Hand Flight of Four Coins
108
The Passe Coins and Glasses from glass to glass, using coin on thread
112
The Passe Coins from Hand to Hand using shell
118
The Phantom Coin shell applications, coin travels, coin vanishes
122
Eugene Verbeck The Coin in the Magical Envelopes basically a coin into nest of envelopes with newspaper-envelope transformations, for credit information see Carney reference
Variations 123
Vest Holder for Coins
125
The Push-In Vanish
131
The Pick-Up Vanish
132
The Pivot Vanish
133
Front and Back Hand Palm
134
The Throwing Vanish
135
The Pull-Away Vanish
136
To Vanish Cigarette Up The Nose
137
To Produce Cigarette From Ear
137
To Swallow Cigarette
137
Paul Fox Vanish and Production
138
The Multiplying Cigarette
139
The Change-Over Palm
141
The Change-Over Palm
141
The Burning Cigarette and Silk Handkerchief cigarette into silk, thumb tip
141
The Phantom Cigarette classic pantomime production
143
The Vanishing Cigarette pull
144
Ed Reno The Vanishing Pencil pull
146
The Dollar Bill in the Cigarette
146
Catching Cigarettes in the Air using gimmick on finger
150
An Odd Cigarette Vanish using cigarette clip on finger
152
Cardini Floating Cigarette thread, cigarette floats into clear tube
154
Lighted Cigarette from Box sight gag
156
Back and Front Hand Palming vanish and production with pivot
157
Back Palm
158
To Produce Card single card from back palm
160
To Produce Cards in a Fan from back palm
161
Paul Fox Simplified Back and Front Hand Palm
161
Production of Cards one at a time from Back of Hand two methods
162
Production of Cards one at a time from Front of Hand
163
To Vanish Cards one at a time and Reproduce them
165
Flash Card Production card produced from tambourine, using body load
167
Producing Fans of Cards split fan productions
170
The Phantom Pip picking up the pip... and putting it back on
172
Paul Fox Adding Cards to Back of Deck while front is exposed
174
Paul Fox Back Hand Color Change using back palm
174
Open Finger Color Change using clip palm
175
Slap Change
177
Push Up Color Change
178
Thumb Steal Color Change palm off can be used to produce fans (context), thumb palm
179
Double Card Change both on the deck
179
Charles A. Leedy Slip Up Color Change
Related to 180
Top Card Change - Method 1
181
Top Card Change - Method 2 different dynamic than method 1
182
Top Card Change - Method 3 old style with finger change
182
Top Card Change - Method 4 end grip
183
Modern Card Change variation with side jogged double
183
Single Hand Card Change toss change
184
Cardini Bottom Dealing - Method 1 mentioning of standard bottom deal effects
185
Bottom Dealing - Method 2
186
Audley Walsh Bottom Dealing - Method 3
187
Cardini Second Dealing - Method 1
189
Second Dealing - Method 2
Variations 190
Second Dealing - Method 3
191
Joe Berg Second Dealing - Method 4 end grip take
192
Second Dealing - Method 5 end grip take
193
Dealing Bottoms end grip take
193
The Ribbon Drop
194
The Cascade
194
Production of Cards from the Mouth
195
Cascade Production from Boy's Nose
196
Charlier The One-Handed Cut
196
Audley Walsh Any Name Called For mathematical placement, random names are spelled to, card found at last position
Also published here 199
Audley Walsh Ten Card Color Change
201
Richard Himber Double Detection magician determines facing cards in a by a spectator faced deck
Variations 205
Second From Bottom Glimpse
206
George G. Kaplan, Audley Walsh, Al Baker A Clever Card Discovery mathematical, based on Telephone Mystery
208
Al Baker, Audley Walsh Telephone Mystery
Variations 210
William H. McCaffrey Variation of the Telephone Mystery
Related to 211
E. J. Moore Prophetic Card Discovery a bit disguised
215
The Conjurer's Touch deck in performer's pocket, he produces any suit and value on command
Variations 218
Percy Abbott A Mysterious Discovery spectator removes x cards, magician finds card with value x, set-up
220
T. Nelson Downs Marvello transposition with extremely strange procedure, mathematical
223
Cardini Cardini's Rising Cards five cards, rubber band between two cards
229
Rising Deck From Card Case thread
234
Louis Tannen A Pack Full Of Pep deck from case, rubber
235
The Rising Cards and Card Case half the pack and case have holes
237
Keith Clark Rising Card from the Pocket from breast pocket
241
Rising Cards from Glass Goblet three cards, with loop moves, variation with assistant (page 249)
243
Al Baker Rising Cards from Goblet - Al Baker Method different hook up
249
Henry Gordien Rising Cards from Goblet - Henry Gordien Method different hook up
250
Howard Thurston Howard Thurston Rising Cards cards rise and float into hand
250
Paul Fox, Harlan Tarbell Superba Rising Cards four cards rise and float into hand
Related to 255
Howard Thurston Thurston's Floating Card card floats up and down, thread
257
Buatier de Kolta De Kolta Card Fountain all cards except one jump out of glass, thread
259
Harry Stork Harry Stork Card Fountain cards jump out of glass
261
Jean Hugard Jean Hugard's Card Fountain cards jump out of glass, thread
263
Tommy Dowd Tommy Dowd's Rising Cards cards rise while isolated in two glasses
265
Harlan Tarbell Humpty Dumpty Outdone spectator breaks egg in handkerchief
Also published here 269
Harlan Tarbell Tarbell's Unbreakable Egg spectator breaks egg in handkerchief
Also published here 274
Harlan Tarbell The Egg Bag long routine, "Tarbell Style" Egg Bag
277
Dante Egg Bag Presentation egg size varies according to how hard spectator blows, black egg when black person blows
Related to 278
Double Handkerchief
279
Percy Abbott "Fool-Zum" Egg Bag Routine
288
Billard Ball Manipulation hinge shell gimmick
293
Adam and Eve four ball production and vanish, longer routine with several sleights and shell
295
The Multiplying Golf Balls different design
306
Special Adjuncts for Ball Manipulators body load holder for balls
307
Rainbow Billiard Balls rainbow chicagoer routine
308
A Mysterious Ball Transposition two balls in silk and glass goblets transpose
313
The Handkerchief Ball universal gimmick with loop, handwashing displays
317
Eugene Laurant, Buatier de Kolta, Servais LeRoy Soup Plate and Handkerchiefs two silks disappear and reappear under soup plate on chair
322
Two Soup Plates and Handkerchiefs two silks vanish and reappear between soup plates
Related to 325
Twentieth Century Silks
327
Handkerchief to Billiard Ball hollow ball
331
Bert Douglas The Elusive Rainbow 20th century silks with knot placed in mouth, then ball appears and travels into mouth
333
Bert Douglas Spot The Red 20th century silks with knot placed in mouth, then ball appears and travels into mouth
337
Harlan Tarbell Type of Rope used
339
Milbourne Christopher Christopher's Three Knots in a Rope three knots appear, one disappears, one is untied, one is taken off
339
Milbourne Christopher Christopher's Jumping Knot knot jumpes from one position on rope to another
342
Louis Tannen Tannen's Ring, Knot and Rope borrowed finger ring travels from handkerchief in knot on rope
Variations 344
Milbourne Christopher Christopher's Thread to Rope thin thread changes visibly into rope
347
Self-Untying Rope thread
349
Milbourne Christopher Christopher's Cigarette to Rope three different methods
349
The Phantom Knot disappearing knot
353
Hindu Knots knots appear and disappear
355
Chefalo Chefalo's Knot disappearing knot
358
Harlan Tarbell, Chefalo Tarbell's Triple Chefalo Knot disappearing knots
358
Hocus Pocus" Cut and Restored Rope"x
359
A Novel Knot Steal stealing a knotted on knot
362
Magician's Cut and Restored Rope
363
Perplexo Cut and Restored Rope
366
Richard Himber Himber's Rope Mytersy
367
Ted Collings Ted Collin's Panama Rope Mystery
368
Syl Reilly Ghostly Card in the Dark card image appears in dark room, luminous paint
373
Syl Reilly Date on a Borrowed Coin date appears as image in dark room, luminous paint
375
Syl Reilly A Selected Word word appears as image in dark room, luminous paint
375
Syl Reilly Spirit Answers word appears as image in dark room, luminous paint
375
Syl Reilly The Phantom Die chosen number divined, luminous paint
376
Syl Reilly The Magazine Test clever, luminous paint
376
Syl Reilly The Phantom Tray chosen object is determined, luminous paint
378
Syl Reilly "Ghostlite" in the Dark Seance The Evil Eye, Spooky Lights, Apparitions of Spirit Articles, Ghostly Faces, Ectoplasm, Ghost Materialization, using luminous paint
379
Edward Saint Spirit Lights under Test Conditions seance style, luminous paint
383
The Mystery of King Tut two persons change place
387
Who and Which two persons change place
395
Who and Which (Simple Method) two persons change place
401
Three Kings and a Queen person appears in paravent
403
Karl Fulves The Optical Force (chapter 33-A added to 1975 edition, see "13 Prophets", p. 20)
two spectators choose cards: mates
Variations 408
Karl Fulves Demon Digits calculation procedure, result predicted
409
Karl Fulves Ultra Die strange card prediction, chosen by rolling a die
410
Karl Fulves The Folded Prophecy nail writer, through envelope, carbon paper
412
Karl Fulves, Don Nielson Liars Convention magician blindfolded, three spectators choose cards two exchange cards, magicican knows who and the cards, marked stacked deck
412
Karl Fulves Clocks and Cards clock time duplication, then drawn card is found by medium
414
Karl Fulves, J. W. Sarles Roughing it mental reverse variant
416
Data entered by Denis Behr.