1947
Written by J. B. Bobo, James G. Thompson Jr.
Work of J. B. Bobo
124 pages (Hardcover), published by Lloyd E. Jones
Illustrated with drawings by J. B. Bobo
Language: English
77 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
J. B. Bobo Preface
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John Braun Introduction
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J. B. Bobo Multiple Card Control hindu shuffle control to bottom for one or multiple cards, crimp addition
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J. B. Bobo Friction Bottom Slip Cut
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Shuffling around Key or Crimp
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J. B. Bobo Bottom Up
  • Method I (tabled transfer cut from bottom card to top)
  • Method II (Hindu shuffle to bring bottom card to top)
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J. B. Bobo Bottom Peek during center cut
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J. B. Bobo Top Peek top buckle in open grip from top
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J. B. Bobo Naming Top Card performer repeatedly knows top card after shuffle
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U Peek, I Peek card in center is glimpsed at back end as spectator is looking at it from opening in front
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J. B. Bobo Color Change with gambler's flat palm steal from back & presentation
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Paul Ebling The Ebling Crimp one-handed with flesh of fourth finger
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J. B. Bobo A New Key Card single rough-smooth pair
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J. B. Bobo The Isolated Key corner dotted card in center as reference
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J. B. Bobo Stop Card Trick
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J. B. Bobo Milk Shuffle Key Placement card replaced during overhand shuffle
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J. B. Bobo Found card selected with seemingly fair cutting procedure, key card
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J. B. Bobo Bobo Locatrix card selected with seemingly fair cutting procedure, key card, location via "Trick that Cannot be Explained" type procedure
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Shuffling with Key Card
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J. Stewart Smith In His Hands
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J. B. Bobo Telepathic Miracle key card placed next to thought-of card
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J. B. Bobo Two Backward Cards performer stabs card reversed between two selections behind his back
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Paul Ebling Behind His Back card chosen and returned behind performer's back, when he brings deck forward he instantly names card and it is reversed
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Glimpsing Reversed Card in Center
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J. B. Bobo Card to Pocket card instantly produced from pocket
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J. B. Bobo Center Rear Palm Steal
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J. B. Bobo Double Discovery performer stabs card reversed between two selections
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J. B. Bobo Triple Thought spectator selects three cards and thinks of one of them, they're returned, performer finds thought-of card
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J. B. Bobo The Invisible Deck classic Invisible Deck
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J. B. Bobo "Out of this World" Followup - Effect Number 1 spectator finds card that was selected at other end of room
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Red/Black Shuffle cards drawn singly in the center
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J. B. Bobo "Out of this World" Followup - Effect Number 2 decks with colors separated is mixed, yet the colors stay separated
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J. B. Bobo Red/Black Shuffle mixing in Charlier Shuffle position
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Charlier Charlier Shuffle uncredited
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J. B. Bobo Cards in Flight twelve cards, comedy presentation with child
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J. B. Bobo Four Ace Routine (a) four piles build by shuffling and being stopped by spectator, Ace on top of each
(b) Aces lost, number cards selected and their value used to count down to Aces
(c) "Cutting the Aces"
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Slip Force
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J. B. Bobo Control to Second from Bottom Hindu shuffle
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Slip Cut in the hands
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One-Handed Slip Cut
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J. B. Bobo Bobo System of Card Control
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J. B. Bobo The Art of Sleeving
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Delayed Action Sleeving
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The "Pumpkin Seed" Vanish
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Loading Sleeve from Inside Coat
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Pulling up Sleeves after Sleeving
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J. B. Bobo Chameleon Knives ungaffed, sleeving as switch
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J. B. Bobo Color Changing Thimble sleeving
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J. B. Bobo Coin to Ring featuring pumpkin seed vanish as switch
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Through the Table coin on table, spectator presses performer's hand on top and it penetrates table, with a misdirection sleeving
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Sleeve Switch under Handkerchief
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J. B. Bobo Glass of Liquid Production appears under handkerchief, loaded from sleeve
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The Catapult inertia sleeving
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J. B. Bobo A New Switch
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Wallace Lee The Ghost of a Coin
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J. B. Bobo Bobo Vanish
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J. B. Bobo Knee-zy Vanish coin travels from knee to knee, then vanishes
Variations 91
J. B. Bobo Sucker Vanish
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J. B. Bobo Hand Load via Speed
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Phil Huckabee The Penny-trating Coin one of two coins penetrates spectator's hand, penny/dime set
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J. B. Bobo The Squirting Nickel use for hollow coin to squirt water from, heckler stopper
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J. B. Bobo Mystery with a Shell Half short flurry, method to separate shell from coin
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J. B. Bobo The Magic Mint nickel in the hand, half dollar appears, nickel transforms into another half dollar
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Wallace Lee The Ghost of a Coin coin to glass disc in spectator's hand
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J. B. Bobo, Phil Huckabee Peregrinating Quarters
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J. B. Bobo The Inseparable Pair two phases
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J. B. Bobo Drop Switch hands crossed
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Harry McDaniel Chinese Money Mystery
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J. B. Bobo, James G. Thompson Jr. Silver and Copper
  • Number One
  • Number Two
  • Number Three
  • Number Four (J. G. Thompson, Jr.)
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J. B. Bobo Suggested Routine string of coin tricks
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J. B. Bobo Match Penetration between thumb and first finger of both hands
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Paul Fox Thimble Change-Over
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Paul Fox Thimble Pop-Up thimble travels from hand to thumb
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J. B. Bobo The Exploding Thimble vanish with sound effect
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J. B. Bobo Throwing a Knot
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J. B. Bobo Knots to You rope in hand, number named, that many knots appear, then one is blown off
Also published here 121
J. B. Bobo The Ring on the String
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Data entered by Denis Behr.