Purse Sleights

52 entries in Coin / Sleights / Purse Sleights
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Eddie Joseph The Purse Swindle purse sold with two coins which turn out to be different coins later, detailed
 		1942 Coin and Money Magic 109
Scotty York Purse Switch seated
 		1975 Lecture 14
John Carney Coins Across to Purse three coins to purse one at a time
Variations 1976 Enigma 15
Harvey Rosenthal Purse Swindle coin in hand transposes with coin in purse
  • Compounding The Swindle
Variations 1976 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 10 No. Close-Up Folio #3) 902
Mike Caveney Purse Switch
1981 Magicomedy 16
Tom Gagnon Optional Display Technique
1981 Sleightly Original 38
Stephen Tucker The Midas Purse coin travels in purse, under mat and under purse, then it changes into other coins and several more coins appear on purse which eventually vanish again
 		1982 Spell-Binder (Vol. 2 No. Special #1 (Summer)) 24
David Roth False Putting into Purse apparently coins are put into purse
 		1985 Expert Coin Magic 275
Richard Bartram, Jr. Alternate Handling apparently coin is put in purse, with Himber Vanish
 		1985 Close-Up of the Damned 7
Eric DeCamps Purse Steal and Shuttle Pass
1986 The Coin Connection 13
David Roth False Putting into Purse
Related to 1989 Williamson's Wonders 35
Gary Kurtz Relentless
  • 1.) Four Silver Dollars from the Purse Frame
  • 2.) The Penny
  • 3.) Returning the Penny to the Purse Frame
  • 4.) Double Transposition in Spectator's Hand
  • 5.) Returning the Penny to the Purse Frame (Again)
  • 6.) Interlude
  • 7.) Coins Through the Table
  • 8.) The Bag on the Purse and Four More Coins
  • 9.) The Penny Returns
  • 10.) The Classic Hang Ping Chien Coins Across
  • 11.) The Finale: Returning to the Beginning
 		1990 Coin Magic 1
Al Schneider, Michael Rubinstein Drop Vanish as a change on a purse
 		1990 The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue 32) 571
Gary Ouellet Slydini Switch Variation switching purses
 		1990 Close Up Illusions 272
Shigeo Takagi Purse Steal coin apparently placed in purse
 		1990 The Amazing Miracles of Shigeo Takagi 32
Gary Kurtz Relentless - Part One
  • 1. Introducing the Purse Frame
  • 2. Producing the First Two Dollars
  • 3. Producing the Second Two Dollars
  • 4. Producing the Penny
  • 5. Replacing the Penny into the Purse Frame
  • 6. The Double Transposition
  • 7. Replacing the Penny in the Purse Frame (Again)
Related to 1991 Relentless 2
The Open Position open palm display of purse frame with coins fingerpalmed
 		1991 Relentless 4
Gary Kurtz Relentless - Part Three
  • 9. The Bag Appears on the Purse
  • 10. Four More Coins
  • 11. The Penny Returns
  • 12. The Penny Vanishes
  • 13. The Penny is Found
  • 14. The Purse Disappears and Reappears
 		1991 Relentless 20
David Harkey Inside-Out Purse Load
1991 Simply Harkey 241
David Harkey Cave-Dweller Principle purse as utility hold-out
Related to
  • Linking Ring, Nov. 1988
 1991 Simply Harkey 242
Gary Kurtz Relentless - Part One
  • Arriving at the Table
  • 1. Introducing the Purse Frame
  • 2. Producing the First Two Dollars
  • 3. Producing the Second Two Dollars
  • 4. Producing the Penny
  • 5. Replacing the Penny into the Purse Frame
  • 6. The Double Transposition
  • 7. Replacing the Penny in the Purse Frame (Again)
 		1995 ca. Relentless (revised edition) 2
Gary Kurtz The Open Position open palm display of purse frame with coins fingerpalmed
 		1995 ca. Relentless (revised edition) 4
Gary Kurtz Relentless - Part Three
  • 9. The Bag Appears on the Purse
  • 10. Four More Coins
  • 11. The Penny Returns
  • 12. The Penny Vanishes
  • 13. The Penny is Found
  • 14. The Purse Disappears and Reappears
 		1995 ca. Relentless (revised edition) 17
Fake Purse Dump
1996 Lou Gallo: The Underground Man 29
James Lewis Utility Purse Switch
Also published here
  • "Million Dollar Mysteries - The Magic of James Lewis", 1992 video
 Feb. 2006 Antinomy (Vol. 2 No. 1) 27
Flick under Purse
May 2006 Antinomy (Vol. 2 No. 2) 35
Fake Purse Insertion coins apparently put in purse
Related to June 2007 Antinomy (Vol. 3 No. 2) 31
Alexander de Cova Der Purse Switch switching purse as it is closed
Also published here Oct. 2013 New Avantgarde Magic (Issue 11) 18
Alexander de Cova Purse Switch switching purse as it is closed
Also published here 2015 Burners — Vol. 1 218
Alexander de Cova Purse Frame Handlings moves with the purse frame, intro
 		2016 Burners — Vol. 5 93
Alexander de Cova Die Ramsay Subtlety purse frame display and coin production
 		2016 Burners — Vol. 5 93
Geoffrey Latta Great Purse Game Steal
Inspired by 2017 The Long Goodbye — Latta on Coins 210
Fake Coins into Purse Insertion
2018 Institutes of A Coin Magic Fan 31
Fake purse insertion coin loaded behind purse as coins are placed inside
 		2018 Pure Imagination 35
Purse extraction folded bill is secretly extracted from purse immediately after openly placing it inside
 		2018 Pure Imagination 103
Purse dump addition coin from outside purse is dumped together with coins inside purse creating illusion they were all inside
 		2018 Pure Imagination 176
Michael Rubinstein Rubinstein Rattle Purse gaffed purse
 		2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 87
Michael Rubinstein Roll-Down Retention Pass Variation fan of coins apparently placed into purse
Inspired by 2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 88
Michael Rubinstein Purse Coin Dump palmed coins apparently dumped from purse
 		2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 90
Michael Rubinstein Pseudo Purse Load
2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 112
Michael Rubinstein Purse Count apparently removing four coins from purse, actually only two
 		2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 319
Michael Rubinstein Purse Maneuver hiding coins under purse while handling the purse
 		2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 327
Mike Gallo Purse Frame Production
2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 427
Tim Feher Purse Frame Drop production from frame
 		2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 429
Joe Rindfleisch Retention of Vision Vanish here into purse frame
 		2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 429
Nabil Murday Murday Move vanish into purse frame
Inspired by
  • Cultural Xchange, DVD
 2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 430
Tim Feher Pinched Rotation Move vanish into purse frame
 		2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 431
David Roth Purse Grip holding a purse while palming coins
 		2020 Rubinstein Coin Magic 456
Friction Pass from Purse
Feb. 2022 The Hermit (Vol. 1 No. 2) 67
Bill Citino Purse Dump Steal coins dumped out of purse, one held back inside
 		May 2022 The Hermit (Vol. 1 No. 5) 197
Yoshihiko Mutobe Purse Lapping coin apparently picked up from hand-held purse
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Feb. 2006
 2022 Talk About Tricks (Issue 1) 474
Michael Feldman Hold-Back in Purse friction toss from purse
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Apr. 2009
 2022 Talk About Tricks (Issue 2) 847