1876
Written by Professor Hoffmann
Work of Professor Hoffmann
511 pages (Hardcover), published by unknown publisher
Illustrated with drawings
Language: English
348 entries
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Professor Hoffmann Introduction some rules for conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann The Magic Wand
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Professor Hoffmann The Magician's Table
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Professor Hoffmann The Magician's Dress
  • Profondes
  • Pochettes
  • "Loading" Pockets
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Professor Hoffmann General Principles of Sleight-of-Hand applicable to Card Tricks
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To Make the Pass - First Method very backbone of card-conjuring, the
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Classic Pass Half Pass
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Professor Hoffmann Managing the Pass misdirection and gaze
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To Make the Pass - Second Method
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Classic Pass False Cut as top half is taken, or as top half is replaced
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To Make the Pass - Third Method
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To Make the Pass - Fourth Method one-handed version of Third Method
Related toAlso published here 18
To Make the Pass - Fifth Method flourishy
Also published here 18
To Make the Pass - Sixth Method
Related toVariationsAlso published here 19
To Make the Pass - Seventh Method
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To "Force" a Card
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Forcing Pack one way or three way
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To make a "False Shuffle" - First Method small top stock
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To make a "False Shuffle" - Second Method slip shuffle
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To make a "False Shuffle" - Third Method Charlier type shuffle with optical bluff placement to top
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To make a "False Shuffle" - Fourth Method fans pushed into each other and stripped out again (Zarrowesque concept)
Also published here 25
To make a "False Shuffle" - Fifth Method multiple packets
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To make a "False Shuffle" - Sixth Method multiple packets, real cut
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To "Palm" a Card
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Palm Glimpse glimpsing palmed card
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Palm Replacement
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To "Ruffle" the Cards one-handed or two-handed
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To "Change" a Card - First Method bottom change
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To "Change" a Card - Second Method bold, bottom card shown, top side-jogged card quickly removed instead
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To "Change" a Card - Third Method top change
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To "Change" a Card - Fourth Method "With one hand only."
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Prof. Robert Hellis To "Change" a Card - Fifth Method "To change a card without the aid of the Pack"
in context of effect in which wrong card changes into selection
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Prof. Robert Hellis To "Change" a Card - Sixth Method To change severals cards at once.
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To Get Sight of a Drawn Card
  • First Method (center)
  • Second Method (bottom)
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To "Slip" a Card
Variations 35
To Draw Back a Card Glisser la carte
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To "Turn Over" the Pack
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To Spring the Cards from one Hand to the Other
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To Throw a Card
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The Bridge
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Professor Hoffmann The Value of Personal Instruction
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Simple Modes of Discovering a given Card - First Method top cards openly pushed back one by one until spectator stops, bottom card force card
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Second Method 21 card trick, also with general number
Variations 43
Third Method spectators remember cards and their positions
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Various Modes of Disclosing a Discovered Card - First Method deck hit out of spectator's hand
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Second Method single card friction toss
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Third Method air-pressure turnover
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Fourth Method equivoque procedure
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To make a Card vanish from the Pack, and be found in a Person's Pocket stuck to back of hand
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To place the Four Kings in different parts of the Pack, and to bring them together by a Simple Cut
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Hidden Block Packet Switch
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The Four Kings being placed under the Hand of one Person, and the Four Sevens under the Hand of Another, to make them Change Places at Command
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Eights as Sevens
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Four Packets of Cards having been Formed face downwards on the Table, to discover the Total Value of the Undermost Cards
Related to 49
Throw Packet to Count its Cards
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To Name all the Cards in the Pack in Succession full stack, Eight Kings explained
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The Cards being Cut, to tell whether the Number Cut is Odd or Even
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The Whist Trick. To deal yourself all the Trumps all four hands contain all cards of a suit
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To allow a Person to think of a Card, and to make that Card appear at such Number in the Pack as Another Person shall Name card and its position remembered, bluff counting started with that number, with variation
Related to 52
The Cards Revealed by the Looking-Glass joke
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To Guess Four Cards thought of by Different Persons
Related toVariations 53
The Pairs Re-paired
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The Magic Triplets variation with twenty-four cards and triplets instead of twenty and pairs
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Another Mode of Discovering a Card Thought of twenty-five cards, different dealing pattern
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To Guess, by the aid of a Passage of Poetry or Prose, such one of Sixteen Cards as, in the Performer's Absence, has been Touched or Selected by the Company verbal code
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To Detect, without Confederacy, which of Four Cards has been Turned Round in your Absence one-way margins
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To Arrange Twelve Cards is Rows, in such a manner that they will Count Four in every Direction puzzle
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To Place the Aces and Court Cards in Four Rows, in such a manner that neither Horizontally nor Perpendicularly shall there be in either Row two Cards alike either in Suit or Value puzzle
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The Congress of Court Cards with the twelve court cards
Related to 59
The Long Card
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Biseauté or Tapering Cards
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A Card having been Chosen and Returned, and the Pack shuffled, to Produce the Chosen Card instantly in various ways long card or stripper deck, see following tricks
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To Pick out the Card,the Pack being placed in a Person's Pocket stripper or with palm
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To Cut at the Chosen Card stripper, long card, or ungaffed after spectator shuffle (palm)
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To Let all the Cards fall, save the One Chosen long card or stripper deck
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Classic Pass False Cut
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To Fling the Pack in the Air, and Catch the Chosen Card
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To Change a Card drawn haphazard to the Chosen Card long card or stripper
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To Divide the Pack into several Packets on the Table, allowing the Company to stop you at any Moment, and to cause the Top Card of the Heap last made to Change into the Chosen Card wide card as key card
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Shuffling Deck with Key Card
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Dribble Force Precursor using wide card
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To teach the Company a Trick which they Learn without Difficulty, then to allow them to Succeed or to cause them to Fail at your Pleasure deck dealt in four piles and suits separated, taught to audience and they fail or succeed
Related to 66
To Distinguish the Court Cards by Touch preparing by "bending" edges slightly upwards with knife
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Professor Hoffmann Concealing the Cause
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To name any Number of Cards in succession without Seeing them cards named one by one with deck behind backs, two methods
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To make Four Cards change from Eights to Twos, from Black to Red, etc. divided cards
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Turning Cards End for End small packet
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A Card having been Drawn and Returned, and the Pack shuffled, to make it Appear at such Number as the Company Choose two methods (Glide and Re-Deal)
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Several Persons having each Drawn and Returned a Card, to make each Card appear at such Number in the Pack as the Drawer chooses
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The "Three Card" Trick with bent corner
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To Nail a Chosen Card to the Wall
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The Inseparable Sevens Eights as Sevens, robbers
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The Inseparable Aces three x-cards behind, robbers
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Push-off Count
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Holding Two Breaks
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Having placed the Four Aces in different positions in the Pack, to make the two Black change places with the two Red ones, and finally to bring all Four together in the middle of the Pack
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A Card having been thought of, to make such Card Vanish from the Pack, and be Discovered wherever the Performer pleases twenty-seven cards, card palmed out and multiple endings suggested (pocket, transformation, on chair, ...)
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To cause a Number of Cards to Multiply invisibly in a Person's keeping cut-off packet weighed, then it multiplies
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Cutting Force spectator cuts to a break while performer holds deck
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Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin The Pack being divided into Two Portions, placed in the keeping of two different Persons, to make Three Cards Pass invisible from the One to the Other beginning with sealed deck
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To allow several Persons each to draw a Card, and the Pack having been Shuffled, to make another Card drawn haphazard Change successively into each of those first chosen
Related to 87
Professor Hoffmann Tips on the Classic Force
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To make Four Aces change to Four Kings, and Four Kings to Four Aces four double facers, using hat
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Professor Hoffmann Making Double Facers
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Having made Four Packets of Cards with an Ace at the bottom of each, to bring all Four Aces into whichever Packet the Company may choose faced deck and alternative method
Related to 91
Conus To Change the Four Aces, held tightly by a Person into Four Indifferent Cards Conus Aces
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The Shower of Aces deck changes into all Aces
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Several Persons having each drawn Two Cards, which have been Returned and Shuffled, to make each Couple Appear in Succession, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the Pack "The Ladies' Looking-glass", favorite of Comte
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Friction Toss
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To make Two Cards, each firmly held by a different Person, change places duplicate
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To Change Four Cards, drawn haphazard, and placed on the table, into Cards of the same Value as a Single Card subsequently chosen by one of the Spectators optional forcing pack
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Two Heaps of Cards, unequal in Number, being placed upon the Table, to predict beforehand which of the two the Company will choose ambiguous prediction, two handlings (number of cards or values in pile & odd/even pile with palming)
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A Row of Cards being placed Face Downards on the Table, to indicate, by turning up one of them, how many of such Cards have during your absence been transferred from one end of the Row to the other
Variations 104
Several Cards having been freely chosen by the Company, Returned and Shuffled, and the Pack placed in a Person's Pocket, to make such Person draw out one by one the chosen Cards spectator extracts (top) card from his pocket, favorite of Herrmann
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The Cards having been freely shuffled, and cut into three or four heaps, to name the top card of each heap
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To allow a Person secretly to think of a Card, and dividing the Pack into three heaps, to cause the Card thought of to appear in whichever heap the Company may choose
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Single Card Cull
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To allow a Person secretly to think of a Card, and, even before such Card is named, to select it from the Pack, and place it singly upon the Table one in fifty-two, or switch
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Table Edge Drag Switch into servante (lap)
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A Card having been Secretly Thought of by one of the Audience, to place two Indifferent Cards upon the table, and to Change such one of them as the Audience may select into the Card thought of using psychological force
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Psychological Force picture card amongst number cards
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A Card having been Drawn and Returned, and the Pack shuffled, to divide the Pack into several Heaps on the Table, and to cause the Drawn Card to appear in such heap as the Company may choose
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To change a drawn Card into the Portraits of several of the Company succession
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A Card having been drawn and returned, and the Pack shuffled, to place on the Table six Rows of six Cards each, and to discover the chosen Card by a throw of the Dice
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A Card having been withdrawn and replaced, to call it from the Pack, and to make it come to you of its own accord thread, tabled rising card from spread
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Professor Hoffmann Mode of Preparing specially adhesive Wax for Conjuring Purposes
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The Whist Trick. Improved Method. "To deal yourself all the Trumps, the three other Players holding the usual mixed Hands"
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Pochette-Profonde Switch
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The Magic Sword "A Card being drawn and replaced, and the Pack flung in the Air, to catch the chosen Card on the point of the Sword"
Related to 121
Three Cards Repeating Forcing Pack
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The Rising Cards (La Houlette) "Several Cards having been drawn, returned, and Shuffled, to make them rise spontaneously from the Pack"
some variations in apparatus explained
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Ungimmicked Rising Cards
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The Jumping Cards "Two or three Cards having been drawn, returned, and shuffled, to make them jump out of the Pack"
using prop box
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To make a Card stand upright by itself on the Table tin slip
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Changing Card-boxes, and Tricks performed with them
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Two Card Transposition using two mechanical card boxes
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Restoration in Card Box prop
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Card Box Force using prop for switch
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The Mechanical Card-box
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The "Card and Bird" Box
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The Card Tripod switching device
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The "Torn Card" card restored except corner, which then visibly reappears, different versions of the mechanical card explained
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Mechanical Changing Cards three different ones
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Visible Change of Rising Card mechanical card
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Classic Palming of Coins
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Pass 1 right hand classic palm, fake transfer to left (described with coin but for all small objects)
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Friedrich Wilhelm Frikell Pass 2 featuring thumb grip
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Friedrich Wilhelm Frikell Frikell Thumb Palm
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Pass 3 fake pick-up
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Pass 4 (Le Tourniquet) "French Drop"
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Pass 5 (La Pincette) French Drop from natural grip
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Pass 6 multiple coins with sound
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Pass 7 (La Coulée) for large coin, featuring front palm clip
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Front Palm Clip
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Pass 8 with wand in same hand
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Mentioning Palm Positions brief, "coin by its edges between two of the fingers, or between the thumb and the side of the hand" & finger palm
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Professor Hoffmann Managing the False Transfer gaze and angles
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Professor Hoffmann The "Click" and Delaying the Effect
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Changes Change 1 - Change 5
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A Florin being spun upon the Table, to tell blindfold whether it falls head or tail upwards coin gaffed
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Odd or Even, or the Mysterious Addition rather transparent math trick in which performer apparently knows whether the amount of coins selected is odd or even
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To change a Florin into a Penny, back again, and then to pass the same invisibly into the pocket of the owner first transformation in hand of spectator, coin marked
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To make a marked Florin and Penny, wrapped in separate Handkerchiefs, change places at command including variation with spectator's and performer's hands instead of handkerchiefs
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To make two marked Coins, wrapped in separated Handkerchiefs, come together in one of them (expansion of texture configuration)
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Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin Wrapping Coin in Handkerchief fake wrapping, two methods
Related toAlso published here 166
To Pull Four Florins or Half-crowns through a Handkerchief with assistance of spectator, presented as vanish and reappearance from spectator's clothes
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Producing Clink with Wand when tapping on clothing, two methods (gimmicked wand and ungaffed)
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To pass a Marked Florin (or Half-crown) into the Centre of two Oranges in Succession
Variations 170
Right-Left Equivoque
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The Flying Money To make a Coin pass invisibly from the one hand to the other, and finally through the Table, using penny stuck with wax under the table
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To rub One Sixpence into Three two coins start secretly stuck to underside of table
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The Multiplication of Money coins are borrowed and multiplied, with or without coin tray
Related to 176
Coin Tray money plate
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To make a Marked Sixpence vanish from a Handkerchief, and be found in the Centre of an Apple or Orange previously examined coin stuck to knife
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The Travelling Counters twelve coins, travel around, at one point they are stuck together to a solid block
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The Wandering Sixpence coin traveling from underneath one card to another, two sticky coins
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The "Heads and Tails" Trick coins turn over in a stack of coins, double-faced coin
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Inertia Sleeving
Related to 183
The Magic Cover and Vanishing Halfpence hollow coin stack
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The Animated Coin, which answers Questions, etc. coin jumps around in glass, threaded coin or gimmicked glass, as question-answering coin
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Dice Box dice glued in box in secret compartment as force
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The Vanishing Halfpenny Box "To make a Halfpenny vanish from the Box and again return to it", little round box, coin with inside of box on one side
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The Rattle Box "To make a Coin vanish from the Box, through still heard to rattle within"
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The Pepper-box for vanishing money
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The Brass Money-box for vanishing a coin
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The Brass Box for Money, known as the "Plug-box" to vanish, reproduce or exchange coins
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The Handkerchief for Vanishing Money coin sewn in corner
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The Demon Handkerchief (Le Mouchoir du Diable)
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The Davenport Cabinet things put inside vanish
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The Nest of Boxes
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The Ball of Berlin Wool
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The Glass Goblet and Cover coins appear audibly in glass goblet
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The Glass without Cover, for Money coins appear audibly in glass goblet
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The Miraculous Casket coins vanish one at a time from mechanical box
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The Half-crown (or Florin) Wand
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The Shower of Money
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Money-Slide holder to steal coins one by one
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The Vanishing Plate, or Salver coins vanish when picket up from plate
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The "Changing" Plate
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Frank Hiam The Tray of Proteus by Hiam & Lane, for switching, vanishing, producing
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To indicate on the Dial of a Watch the Hour secretly thought of by any of the Company arithmetical procedure
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To Bend a Borrowed Watch Backwards and Forwards optical illusion
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The Watch-mortar and the Magic Pistol parts of crushed watch are placed in handkerchief and shot from pistol to loaf of bread, restoration
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The Snuff-box Vase to change, vanish or produce small objects
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Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, The Watch Box for vanishing a watch
Related to 219
The Watch Target pistol shot on target, where watch appears mechanically
Variations 220
The Mesmerised Watch To Make any Watch a Repeater, watch answers question with bell sound, featuring sound gimmick
Related toVariations 222
The Flying Ring borrowed ring vanishes from paper, using duplicate on elastic string
Also published here 225
Ring Pull duplicate finger ring on elastic in sleeve
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To Pass a Ring from the one Hand to either Finger of the other Hand substitute ring on pull, temporary hook servante behind leg
Also published here 227
To Pass a Ring through a Pocket-handkerchief using wire gimmick
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To Pass a Ring through the Table glass, hat and handkerchief with ring sewn inside
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Professor Hoffmann Lighting and Background for Thread Work
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To Pass a Ring invisibly upon the Middle of a Wooden Wand, the Ends being held by two of the Spectators
Also published here 230
The Magic Ball and Rings three rings vanish from box, reappear inside special ball on special stick
Related to 231
To Pass a Borrowed Ring into an Egg
Related toAlso published here 233
The Magic Rose ring travels into mechanical rose
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Professor Hoffmann Tricks with Handkerchief
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The Handkerchief that cannot be Tied in a Knot
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The Handkerchief that will not Burn passed through flame without harm
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The Vanishing Knots
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To Exchange a borrowed Handkerchief for a Substitute methods using coat
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The Locked and Corded Box "Washerwoman's Bottle" to steal handkerchief stuffed in opaque bottle, reappears in box or nest of boxes or elsewhere
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The Reversible Canister bottle with two compartments to switch handkerchief or something else
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The Burning Globe brass globe for switching
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The Transformed Handkerchief "one of Herrmann's favourite tricks", borrowed handkerchief transforms into pieces, reappears in produced lemon, burned and restored once more
Related to 246
Professor Hoffmann Loading a Lemon
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The Handkerchief cut up, burnt, and finally found in a Candle with assistant
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Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, The Shower of Sweets sweets appear on plate from loading bag with handkerchief, another loading bag from Robert-Houdin
Related to 251
Sweets from Wand gaffed wand to produced sweets
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The Feathers from an Empty Handkerchief fifteen to twenty plumes from handkerchief, body load
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The Flying Plume feather plume from tube to shawl
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The Magic Laundry borrowed handkerchiefs are "washed" in water tub and magically dried
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Colonel Stodare The Egg and the Handkerchief
Related toAlso published here 260
The Hand Box, for Vanishing a Handkerchief secret container attached to hand
Related to 263
To arrange a Row of Dominoes face downwards on the Table, and on returning to the Room to turn up a Domino whose points shall indicate how many have been moved in your absence "Row of Ten Cards" with dominoes
Related to 265
To allow any Person in your absence to arrange the Dominoes in a Row, face downwards, and on your return to name blindfold, or without entering the Room, the end numbers of the Row
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To Change, invisibly, the Numbers show on either Face of a Pair of Dice
Related to 268
To Name, without seeing them, the Points of a Pair of Dice arithmetical
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Professor Hoffmann The Cups and Balls introduction
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1. To Palm the Ball three methods
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2. To Reproduce the Palmed Ball at the End of the Fingers
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3. To Secretly Introduce the Palmed Ball under the Cup
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4. To Simulate the Action of Placing a Ball under a Cup
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To Reproduce a Ball from the Wand
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To Return a Ball into the Wand
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To Pass one Cup through another
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Professor Hoffmann General Comments on structure and presentation
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Cups and Balls Routine Pass I. Having Placed a Ball under each Cup, to draw it out again without Lifting the Cup
Pass II. To make a Ball Travel invisibly from Cup to Cup
Pass III. Having placed a Ball under each of the end Cups, to make them pass successively under the Middle Cup
Pass IV. Having placed two Balls under the Middle Cup, to make them pass under the two Outer Ones
Pass V. To pass three Balls in succession under One Cup
Pass VI. To place three Balls one after the other upon the top of one of the Cups, and to make them fall through the Cup on to the Table
Pass VII. To pass three Balls in succession upwards through the Table into one of the Cups
Pass VIII. To pass two Balls in succession from one Cup to another without touching them
Pass IX. To make three Balls in succession pass under the Middle Cup
Pass X. The "Multiplication" Pass
Pass XI. To Transform the Small Balls to Larger Ones
Pass XII. To again Transform the Balls to still Larger Ones
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To Palm a large Ball two methods
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To Vanish a Large Ball with the aid of the Table four methods, servante
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The Ball Box ball vase
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The Red-and-Black-Ball Vases
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Morison's Pill-box also called "La Pilule du Diable", even more complex ball vase
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The Ball which changes to a Rose in ball vase
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The Obedient Ball stops on string, "of Japanese origin"
Variations 301
The Cannon-balls in the Hat loading ball in (borrowed) hat from table/servante, further production of fake balls
Variations 304
Multiplying Balls fake cloth-covered balls with spring
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The "Hundred Goblets" from a Hat polished tin goblets
Related to 308
A Dozen Babies from a Hat cloth covered production puppet
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The Magic Reticules production boxes that fold up
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The Drums from the Hat fake production drum that fold up
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The Birdcages from the Hat birdcages that fold up
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The Cake (or Pudding) in the Hat
Related toAlso published here 312
The Welsh Rabbit from dove pan type prop
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The Cut String Restored
Also published here 317
My Grandmother's Necklace
Variations 320
The "Bonus Genius," or Vanishing Doll
Related to 321
The Dancing Sailor cardboard head danced between legs, thread
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The Bottle Imps
Variations 324
The Vanishing Gloves
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The Egg-Bag
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To Produce Eggs from a Person's Mouth
Related toAlso published here 329
The Pillars of Solomon, and the Magic Bradawl precursors of Chinese Sticks
Related to 330
The Magic Coffers tin boxes for switching (e.g. beans to coffee-berries)
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The Bran and Orange Trick bran put in coffer (special tin box) travels back in other box, orange in there instead
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Alexander Herrmann The Rice and Orange Trick orange and rice change places, using props (cone and vase)
Related to 337
The Magic Whistle only performer can produce sound, described as heckler stopper
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The Magic Mill when blown into tin mill different things happen
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The Drawer Box with variations
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The Dissecting Drawer-Box can be taken apart
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The Changing Card-Drawer Drawer Box for card tricks
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Changing Caddies box with two or three lids for changing objects
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Cards to Card Drawer two cards travel into prop
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The Magic Vase and Caddy (To make peas change places with a handkerchief.)
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The Cover, to pick up any Article object vanishes or appears underneath brass cover
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The Changing Cover object is switched underneath metal cover
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Apple to Onion with humorous "Reflex" presentation
357
The Changing Ladle on a stick, to change flat objects, as card burning, paper switch or Q&A device
Related to 358
The Cone, or Skittle also "La quille", cone with shell changes place with ball under paper cone cover, also with larger cone and orange
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The Cone and Bouquet wood cone and bouquet of flowers change places with prop covers
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Glass fills with Water prop cover
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Colonel Stodare The Flying Glass of Water with ring dummy in handkerchief, glass with water disappears and then reappears
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Ring Dummy in Handkerchief improvement for glass vanish
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The Bowls of Water and Bowls of Fire produced from a Shawl
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The Bowl of Ink changed to clear Water, with Gold Fish Swimming in it
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The Inexhaustible Bottle tin bottle with several compartments
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The Bottle and Ribbons dry ribbons of named colors produced from filled bottle
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The New Pyramids of Egypt, or Wine and Water Trick wine and water mixed, separate again, with glass and decanter under cone covers
Related to 377
The Mysterious Funnel tin funnel with double walls
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The Box of Bran transformed to a Bottle of Wine
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The Bran Bottle bottle covered, vanishes and leaves a heap of bran
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The Bran Glass glass (apparently) filled with bran covered, bran changes into anything
Related to 383
To Fire Borrowed Rings from a Pistol, and make them Pass into a Goblet filled with Bran and covered with a Handkerchief, the Bran Disappearing, and being found elsewhere
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The "Domino-Box" (sometimes called the "Glove-Box"), box to make things appear inside, also as Rattle Box
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The Coffee Trick Coffee berries changed to Hot Coffee, White Beans to Sugar, and Bran to Hot Milk, prop heavy
Variations 388
The Inexhaustible Box
391
The Japanese Inexhaustible Boxes box within a box
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The Feast of Lanterns several lanterns produced form "Inexhaustible Box", two styles of production lanterns that fold up
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The Butterfly Trick paper butterflies held in air with fan
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The Wizard's Omelet Borrowed Rings and Live Doves produced from an Omelet, dove pan
Also published here 398
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin The Rose in the Glass Vase empty glass vase on pedestal, rose appears inside, mechanical
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The Chinese Rings
  • eight ring routine
  • twelve ring routine
Also published here 401
The Charmed Bullet
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The Birth of Flowers flower from seed
Variations 411
Production of Flower Basket from Handkerchief body load
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The Mysterious Salver rings, coins or key travel into glass on tablet audibly when covered, mechanical
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The Vanishing Die large die from hat to hat, shell
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The Die Dissolving in a Pocket Handkerchief dummy that folds flat sewn into handkerchief
420
The Die and Orange large die and orange transpose
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The Vanishing Canary Bird and Cage large die, bird cage and bird travel around
424
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, The Decanter and the Crystal Balls clear glass balls produced and then "molded" into single ball which then changes color, two methods
Related to 426
The Flags of all Nations miniature silk flags multiply and grow
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The Umbrella Trick borrowed handkerchief and covering of umbrella transpose
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The "Passe-Passe" Trick bottle and tumbler transpose under tubes
435
The Tables in use in Stage Tricks
  • The "Plain" Trap
  • The "Wrist" or "Pressure" Trap
  • The "Rabbit" or "Dove" Trap
  • "Changing" Traps
  • The "Money" Trap
  • "Pistons" (for working mechanical apparatus)
  • "Bellows" Tables
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Empty Glass to Full Glass using table with changing trap
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The Rabbit Trick egg and two rabbits from borrowed hat, one vanishes, reappears
452
The Fairy Star five cards put in pistol and shot on star configuration apparatus where they appear on its five points
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The Card Bouquet six cards are shot on a fake flower bouquet, they appear around the bouquet, optionally they change into six other selections, mechanical
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The Demon's Head papier maché head rolls eyes and moves mouth, deck put in mouth, chosen cards fly out of mouth and appear between horns
Related to 458
The Magic Picture Frame borrowed objects appear in frame when shot on it from magic pistol
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The Flying Watches and the Broken Plate watches appear and broken plate restores in frame
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The Magic Picture and the Chosen Cards deck thrown onto picture frame, three selections appear behind glass
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The Magic Portfolio cage with birds and other 3D objects produced from thing portfolio
Related to 468
The Glove Column three or four rings and glove borrowed and shot on column, glove expanded as though containing a living hand appears at the top of the pillar, with rings on each finger
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Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin The Vanishing Pocket Handkerchief, found in a Candle borrowed handkerchief burned, then inside candle
470
Colonel Stodare The Sphinx head in box is alive, mirrors
471
John Henry Pepper, Thomas Tobin The Cabinet of Proteus mirrors, for vanish, transformation, ...
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Colonel Stodare The Indian Basket Trick
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Professor Hoffmann Electrical Tricks general comments
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Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin The Light and Heavy Chest electro-magnetism
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Spirit-Rapping to answer questions, electro-magnetical
485
The Magic Bell to answer questions, electro-magnetical
486
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin The Crystal Cash-Box coins appear in box that hangs on strings, electrical
487
The Magic Drum beats to answer questions, electrical
492
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin The Aerial Suspension
Related to 495
Professor Hoffmann Concluding Observations
  • Hints as to Working up Tricks
  • Arrangement of Programme
  • Stage Arrangements
  • Parting Counsels
502
Data entered by Denis Behr.