Pen (& Cap) Manipulation Routines

40 entries in Pen/Pencil / Pen (& Cap) Manipulation Routines
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Connor Everready Pencil Trick vanish and production of a pencil
 		1940 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1940) 4
Martin Gardner Pen Kink borrowed pen is placed away and then produced again
Also published here 1941 The Jinx (Issue 132) 759
A Fountain Pen Nifty cap of fountain pen vanishes and reappears on pen
 		1943/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 3 88
David Berglas, Milbourne Christopher The Autograph Hunter's Nightmare pen vanishes and appear several times, in the end it travels to spectator's breast pocket
 		1969 The Art of Close-Up Magic — Volume 2 200
Harry Crawford, Louis Tannen "Ear It Is" impromptu vanishing sequence of pen and paper, behind ear
Variations 1972 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 7 199
Looy Simonoff, Paul Harris Breaking Point cap and pen interlude
Also published here 1980 Close-up Fantasies — Book II 31
Mystery Vanish No. 2, spectator holds two coins and performer tries to make one vanish by tapping them with a pencil, pencil vanishes and appears in pocket, behind ear
 		1981 Self-Working Table Magic 3
Martin Gardner Pen Kink No. 94, borrowed pen is placed away and then produced again
Also published here 1981 Self-Working Table Magic 118
Roy Baker Two Stunts with a Pen Stunts / gags with sleeving pens
 		1983 Baker's Capers 13
Steve Beam Pen Vanish first pen then cap vanish, entire pen is eventually produced from pocket
Also published here 1984 The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 4) 56
Steve Beam Pen Reverse pen is pushed through hand and reverses in doing so, cap on other side
Also published here 1984 The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 4) 57
David Williamson The Vanishing Penny "Die verschwindende Münze"
coin vanishes in cap of pen, then falls out of cap again
Also published here 1984 For Your Eyes Only 4
David Williamson The Vanishing Penny coin vanishes in cap of pen, then falls out of cap again
Also published here 1984 Striking Magic 2
Jay Sankey Compressed Pen pen is pushed in cap and variations
 		1986 Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 1 No. 1) 6
Flip Hallema Flip-pen-cy flip stick routine with pen and borrowed pen which transform into each other, appear, travel
 		1988 Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 7&8 Arcane) 1
Flip Hallema Pen Steal apparently putting pen in pocket
 		1988 Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 7&8 Arcane) 3
Flip Hallema Body Holdout holding pen against body
 		1988 Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 2 No. 7&8 Arcane) 5
Doc Eason "Make my bill disappear..." behind ear
Related to 1990 Magical Arts Journal (Vol. 3 No. 1-5 Aspen Bar Magic) 27
Michael Powers Pun pen up the nose
 		1993 The Minotaur (Vol. 5 No. 3) 13
Steve Beam Pen Vanish first pen then cap vanish, entire pen is eventually produced from pocket
Also published here 1993 Magic with No Entertainment Value II 8
Steve Beam Pen Reverse pen is pushed through hand and reverses in doing so, cap on other side
Also published here 1993 Magic with No Entertainment Value II 8
Chad Long Pen pen & cap flurry
 		1994 The Lost Cheesy Notebooks — Volume One 8
Felix Farrell Behind My Ear pen and cap vanish and appear behind ears
 		1995 Aus dem Effeff... 41
Gregory Wilson ReCap five-phase routine with pen and its cap
Variations 1996 The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue Gregory Wilson) 289
Looy Simonoff, Paul Harris Breaking Point cap and pen interlude
Also published here 1996 The Art of Astonishment — Book 2 (Issue Close-up Fantasies 1 & 2) 221
Ken Krenzel The Million Penny Mystery pencil vanish and appearance, clean
Related to 1997 Ingenuities 100
Tom Stone The One Coin Opener short one-coin flurry, then pen is produced from coin, coin from pen cap, jumbo coin sequence
Also published here
  • "The Warpsmith's Toolbox" (1993)
 1997 The One Coin Opener 1
Chuck Smith New Will-O-Th-Wisp visual sequence with dollar coin and ball-point pen using the sleeve
 		2000 Why Not? 14
Manuel Muerte The Pen-Ultimate Coin coin is marked with marker, both vanish and reappear, then grow to jumbo coin and pen
 		Aug. 2000 Genii (Vol. 63 No. 8) 70
Jay Sankey, David Acer Cap In Hand Sharpie cap vanishes, reappears on Sharpie
 		2004 Random Acts of Magic 264
Rick Merrill Rune Klan's "Impromptu Hitman" with an Extra Punch coin and pen produced, both transpose and then vanish
  • A Production, a Return, and a Reproduction
  • The "Impromptu Hit Man" Sequence
  • The Double Vanish
Inspired byRelated to 2005 Home Schooled 24
Rick Merrill The No-Sleeve Vanish wrist watch band
Inspired byAlso published here 2005 Home Schooled 30
Rick Merrill Home Schooled "The vanish and reproduction of a Sharpie that transforms into a No. 2 pencil"
Also published here 2005 Home Schooled 33
Rick Merrill Heart Up His Sleeve series of vanishes and productions with a Sharpie pen and a coin
  • A Production, a Return, and a Reproduction
  • The "Impromptu Hit Man" Sequence
  • The Double Vanish
Inspired byRelated to 2009 Sharpies & Coins 2
Rick Merrill Marker to Coin / Coin to Marker
2009 Sharpies & Coins 14
Michael Feldman End for End pen and cap vanishes, reproductions, and color changes
 		2010 The Opposite of People 16
Chris Westfall Time Cap cap and pen routine
Also published here 2013 Seventeen Secrets — Volume 2 48
Chris Westfall Time Cap Sharpie cap disappears and reappears back on the marker
Also published here 2013 Calculated Chaos 18
Jeremiah Zuo Unable To Recap routine with cap and pen, both vanish at the end
Inspired by July 2021 The Disclaimer (Vol. 1 No. 4) 87
Rune Klan Impromptu Hit Man
VariationsAlso published here
  • MAGIC, Mar. 2004
 2022 Talk About Tricks (Issue 1) 281