The Last Word on Cups and Balls

1942
Written by Eddie Joseph
Work of Eddie Joseph
69 pages (Stapled), published by Abbott's Magic
Illustrated with drawings by MEL
Language: English
88 entries
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Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Eddie Joseph Introduction
6
Part One - New Moves and Passes
7
Eddie Joseph The Appealing Force of "Cups and Balls"
7
Eddie Joseph The Multipalm intro
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Eddie Joseph The Single Palm ball vanishes using the classic palm
  • Method 1
  • Method 2
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Eddie Joseph The Double Palm palming two one-inch balls at once
 		9
Eddie Joseph The Triple Palm palming three one-inch balls at once
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Eddie Joseph The Multipalm Drop palming three one-inch balls at once, variation
 		10
Eddie Joseph The Multipalm Pass false transfer with three balls at once
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Eddie Joseph The Multipalm Slide vanishing a ball when already palming two
 		11
Eddie Joseph One Hand Production of Three Single Balls
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Eddie Joseph One-Hand Production of Two Balls Together
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Eddie Joseph Producing Three Balls Singly a la Billiard Balls
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Eddie Joseph Secret Introductions intro to cup loads
 		12
Eddie Joseph Secret Introduction of Two Balls Under One Cup Simultaneously
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Eddie Joseph Secret Introduction of Single Balls from the Double Palm
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Eddie Joseph The "Two-in-One" Introduction
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Eddie Joseph Secret Introduction of Three Balls Together Under One Cup
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Eddie Joseph The "Tip-Up" Introduction
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Eddie Joseph The Torpedo Introduction
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Eddie Joseph The "Back-Street" Introduction
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Eddie Joseph The Cup Introduction
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Eddie Joseph The "Infinite" Introduction
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Eddie Joseph The "Stratagem" Introduction
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Eddie Joseph The "Top-Hole" Introduction
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Eddie Joseph The Jubilee Introduction
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Eddie Joseph The Hinge Extraction ball steal
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Eddie Joseph The Double Extraction
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Eddie Joseph The Triple Extraction
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Eddie Joseph The "Jam" Vanish
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Eddie Joseph The "Grasshopper" Vanish
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Eddie Joseph The Slide Vanish ball dumped into left fingers below table edge
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Eddie Joseph The Elevator Pass ball passes upwards through stack of cups
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Eddie Joseph The Thumb Steal
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Eddie Joseph Through Passage ball penetrates cup when dropped into it, multiple phases
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Eddie Joseph The Spidora three balls dropped into three cups, they all assemble in one
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Eddie Joseph The Roll ball apparently rolled under cup, rolls out the other side
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Eddie Joseph The Scoop ball rolled into cup, secretly bounces out again
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Eddie Joseph The Reel cup shown empty, ball hidden behind
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Part Two - Mechanical Devices and Novel Effects
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Eddie Joseph The Automatic Cup pin attached to inside of cup
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Eddie Joseph The Four-Point Cup four pins attached to inside of cup
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Eddie Joseph The Cup that Delivers secret compartment in cup for load
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Eddie Joseph The "Auto" Producing and Vanishing Cup secret shelf inside cup
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Eddie Joseph The Brodie secret ball holder inside cup
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Eddie Joseph Salt and Pepper two secret compartments in cup
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Eddie Joseph Real Ice Cream Cone from Cup with dry ice in cup to keep it cold
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Eddie Joseph Real Ice Cubs from Cup secret rubber compartment inside cup
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Eddie Joseph Jelly from Cup jelly produced from cup, using a wand with hook
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Eddie Joseph The "Robot" Cup secret lever inside cup, operated with small knob on outside
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Eddie Joseph The Half Shelf for producing soft loads from cup
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Eddie Joseph Chinese Lantern from Cup
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Eddie Joseph Large Stack of Coins from Cup
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Eddie Joseph The Rainbow Streamers
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Eddie Joseph The Shower of Cards cards produced from cup
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Eddie Joseph The Bird Nest live canary hidden in cup throughout routine
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Eddie Joseph Making One Canary into Two manipulative
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Eddie Joseph Rapid Hatching gaffed cup to change an egg into a bird/canary
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Eddie Joseph Another Canary Production from gaffed cup
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Eddie Joseph The Reptile in the Cup spring snake from gaffed cup
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Eddie Joseph The Match Holder keeping item hidden in cup with match stick as holder
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Eddie Joseph Liquid Production rubber balloons hidden in cup
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Eddie Joseph The Water Fountain small water fountain comes out of mouth-side-up cup
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Eddie Joseph The Fire Cracker from cup, "This will wake up the sleeping ones."
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Eddie Joseph The Three Glasses loading liquids under cups, using "Squeeze-It" props
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Eddie Joseph The Fire Fountain small firework from cup
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Eddie Joseph Loading Tall Articles into Cups articles "nearly as high as the cup"
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Eddie Joseph Firing the Cup fire from cups
Related to
  • "The Flaming Cups" (earlier Eddie Joseph book on Cups and Balls)
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Eddie Joseph Spontaneous Combustion palmed fire gimmick to produce fireworks from cup
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Eddie Joseph The Repeat Production producing nested articles
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Eddie Joseph Masterpiece Glass of Liquid Production from cup
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Eddie Joseph The "Phantom" Load fruit stuck in cup to handle cups freely
  • First Method
  • Second Method
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Eddie Joseph The Cotton Mill long cotton thread produced from cup
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Eddie Joseph The Inexhaustible Stream
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Eddie Joseph The "Blooming" Roses spring flowers from cup
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Eddie Joseph Brimful of Wine wine production from cup
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Eddie Joseph Connecting the Terminals motivating the climax
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Eddie Joseph Part Three - Routines intro
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Eddie Joseph The "Ink-o" Routine two glasses with water and one with ink, covered by cups, monte type game
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Eddie Joseph The Red Herring monte type routine with cups and balls of two colors
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Eddie Joseph The Jumping Frog one ball and three cups
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Eddie Joseph The Wandering Ball one ball and three cups
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Eddie Joseph Crystal-i-zation three tumblers and three lumps of sugar
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Eddie Joseph A Chinese Routine
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Eddie Joseph Mechanical Routine gaffed cups
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Eddie Joseph The Nudist Routine no steals from body
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Eddie Joseph The Hindu Routine
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Eddie Joseph The Multipalm Routine fourteen phases
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Data entered by Denis Behr, August 2020.