Hands (mostly)

58 entries in Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
	The Flying Salt	sleeving salt, ungimmicked	Also published here The Classic Flying Salt (T. Nelson Downs, 1981)	1909	The Art of Magic	320	Sleeving Techniques Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Lu Brent	Tobacco Magic	loose tobacco vanishes from hand, is reproduce with other hand		1936	The Jinx (Issue Winter Extra 1935/36)	84	Cigarette & Cigar / Miscellaneous Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Henry Gordien	The Salt Trick	salt from hand to hand		1938	Greater Magic	858	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Edward Victor	An Impromptu Knife and Salt Trick	pile of salt on knife blade vanishes and reappears		1940 ca.	More Magic of the Hands — Part Two	140	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Edward Victor	The Flying Salt			1940 ca.	More Magic of the Hands — Part Two	141	Hand Gimmicks / False Finger Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Salt Pour Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
	The Passe-Passe Salt	thumb tip	Related to Speaking Volumes (David Regal, Richard Osterlind, 2004)	1941	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 1	129	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
U. F. Grant, Danny Morris, Howcani	Gaglet Department	idea for Al Baker's "Salt Trick" (Morris) idea for cleaning slates, when done with chemical formula (Grant) gag, where two eggs are cracked and one put in pocket, but still three yolks are seen (Howcani)	Inspired by Salt Trick (Al Baker, 2003)	July 1942	The Phoenix (Issue 14)	59	Egg / Miscellaneous Slate / Normal Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
R. M. Jamison	Odds and Ends	tips and hints for Clippo Baker's Salt Trick Oriental Restoring Powder	Related to Salt Flight (Al Baker, 1951) Salt Flight (Al Baker, 2003)	Nov. 1943	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 1 No. 6)	23	Paper / Torn & Restored Salt Shaker & Pepper Shaker / Miscellaneous Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Tom Fitzgerald	Bromo Seltzer to the Resuce	impromptu thumb tip for vanishing liquid and making salt travel		Aug. 1944	The Phoenix (Issue 67)	273	Liquid / Vanish Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
George Starke	Salt and Water	salt travels from hand to hand, then water appears		May 1944	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 1 No. 12)	50	Liquid / Appearance & Production Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Salt Pour Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Jack Chanin	Vanishing Salt Trick	salt vanishes from hand and appears in handkerchief, tube		1945	My Best	197	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
U. F. Grant	Round Table Salt Vanish	salt poured in hand vanishes, poured straight through fist into lap		Oct. 1948	Grant's Inner Circle Magazine (Vol. 1 No. 1 & 2)	11	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Dr. Jacob Daley	The Salt Trick - The Perfected Method	salt vanishes and appears again, using salt shaker and saucer		May 1949	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 12)	537	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Al Baker	Salt Flight	from hand to container	Related to Odds and Ends (R. M. Jamison, 1943) Also published here Salt Flight (Al Baker, 2003)	1951	Pet Secrets	101	Salt Shaker & Pepper Shaker / Miscellaneous Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Dick Piser	Supreme Salt	salt vanishes and appears, loop ball gimmick		Oct. 1953	The Phoenix (Issue 291)	1162	Hand Gimmicks / Container Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Salt Pour Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Tony Slydini	Sweet Salt	salt poured in spectator's hand and tasted, then vanishes from magicians hand, reappears but is now sugar, paper tube gimmick, salt simply lapped	Also published here Sweet Salt (Tony Slydini, 1979)	1966	Slydini Encores	99	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly) Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Transformation
Aaron Black	Black's Salt Trick			1969	Wonderful Routines of Magic	177	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Dr. Jacob Daley	Daley's Saltrix Thumb Tip Method	No. 292, "My cut out method"		1972	Jacob Daley's Notebooks	74	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly) Articles / Undecipherable Note
	Salt Routine	salt vanishes from hand, reappears in pen		1977	Close-up Cavalcade Finale	5	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Pen & Pencil / Miscellaneous Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Ross Bertram	The Salt Trick	salt poured in hand vanishes, then it appears again and pours from fist, then from both fists	Variations Salt Pour (Tim Conover, 2025)	1978	Magic and Methods of Ross Bertram	90	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Salt Pour Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Dr. Jacob Daley	Der Salz Trick - Die Perfekte Methode	with specially prepared thumb tip that can be kind of purse palmed		July 1978	Intermagic (Vol. 5 No. 2)	69	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
	Vanishing Salt Trick	A Good Idea to Try (wax-covered hole in thumb tip)		1978	The second now you see it, now you don't!	216	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Tony Slydini	Sweet Salt	salt poured in spectator's hand and tasted, then vanishes from magicians hand, reappears but is now sugar, paper tube gimmick, salt simply lapped	Also published here Sweet Salt (Tony Slydini, 1966)	1979	The Magical World of Slydini	5	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly) Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Transformation
Ken Brooke	K.B. Pass the Salt	salt from hand to hand, glass tube gimmick		1980	Ken Brooke's Magic — The Unique Years	201	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
T. Nelson Downs	The Classic Flying Salt	sleeving salt, ungimmicked	Also published here The Flying Salt (1909)	1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	212	Sleeving Techniques Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Paul Draylin	A Tribute to Paul Draylin - A Little Salt Goes a Long Way	salt vanishes from hand, reappears in silk		1982	The Close-up Magic of Frank Garcia — Part II	86	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Bob Chesbro	The Salty Pen	salt travels from fist to borrowed pen, finger tip		1982	The Tipnician	8	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Pen & Pencil / Traveling / Things travel inside pen Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
David Ben	Shorter and Sweeter	Sugar vanishes, reappears in coffee	Also published here Bitter Sweet (David Ben, 2003)	Nov. 1985	Epoptica (Issue 7)	427	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
James Swain	Up The Sleeve	sugar up the spectator's sleeve, thumb tip	Also published here Up the Sleeve (James Swain, 1992)	Winter 1985	The Collected Almanac (Vol. 3 No. 34, 35 & 36)	386	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Dr. Jacob Daley	Le Coin de Jean de Merry: "Le sel. qui passe d'une main dans l'autre"	salt vanish and appears in other hand		1985	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 46 No. 4)	162	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Richard "Lu" Lista	Shot Glass Salt Transpo	salt vanishes from fist and reappears in shot glass that was wrapped in paper napkin		July 1987	Epoptica (Issue 9)	495	Paper / Paper Napkin Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Alexander de Cova	Der (fast) perfekte Salztrick	using thumb tip with loop	Also published here Der (fast) Perfekte Salztrick (Alexander de Cova, 1990)	1988	Unterhaltung durch Illusion	24	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Jay Sankey, Gary Kurtz*	Exodus	sugar/salt vanish, pen cap instead of thumb tip		1990	100% Sankey	23	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Alexander de Cova	Der (fast) Perfekte Salztrick	"nach Slydini", using thumb tip with loop	Also published here Der (fast) perfekte Salztrick (Alexander de Cova, 1988) Der (fast) Perfekte Salztrick (Alexander de Cova, 2013)	1990	Horizons	38	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Docc Hilford	Nuclear Disposal Plan	name of state is divined, torn pieces and salt vanish		1990	Keeping The Center	5	Paper / Center Tear Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly) Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / Miscellaneous
Steve Dusheck	A Looped Thumb Tip	for vanishing salt		1991	Dusheck's Thumb Tip Magic	25	Hand Gimmicks / Container Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
James Swain	Up the Sleeve	poured sugar disappears from fist and reproduced from spectator's sleeve, credits Roger Klause and Dan Stapleton	Also published here Up The Sleeve (James Swain, 1985)	1992	Don't Blink	13	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Jerry Mentzer	Dollar Bill and Sugar Packet	sugar from sugar packet vanishes and reappers in hand, bill travels into sugar packet		1994	Close-Up File	55	Bill / Traveling / Impossible Location / Miscellaneous Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly) Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Sugar Packet / Object travels inside
Jon Allen	Citizen Kane	white and brown sugar packets are signed, sugar inside packets change places	Also published here Citizen Cane (Jon Allen, 2009) Citizen Cane (Jon Allen, 2009)	1995	Jon Allen's Lecture — The Director's Cut	12	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly) Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Sugar Packet / Transposition
Brad Stine, Gregory Wilson	Vanish 5000	sugar from sugar packet vanishes in hand without thumb tip		1996	The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue Gregory Wilson)	285	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly) Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Sugar Packet / Miscellaneous
John Riggs	Sugar Vanish	poured in hand, impromptu thumb tip version		1996	The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 61)	1196	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Curtis Kam	Tablehopper's Salt Trick	idea for getting a tip for salt vanish from hand		1996	Professional Close-up of Curtis Kam	105	Articles / Business and Publicity Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Jörg Alexander Weber	Zaubersalz	salt packet torn, salt poured in hand vanishes and packet restores	Inspired by "Sweet and Low" (Richard Osterlind, Challenge Magic video, 1990)	2000	ZauberKunstStücke — Band 1	18	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly) Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Sugar Packet / Torn & Restored or Sugar back Inside
Al Baker	Salt Flight	from hand to container	Related to Odds and Ends (R. M. Jamison, 1943) Also published here Salt Flight (Al Baker, 1951)	2003	The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Pet Secrets)	450	Salt Shaker & Pepper Shaker / Miscellaneous Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Al Baker	Salt Trick	salt vanish, gaffed salt shaker with cone inside	Also published here marketed 1940	2003	The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Instructions)	577	Salt Shaker & Pepper Shaker / Miscellaneous Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
David Ben	Bitter Sweet	Sugar vanishes, reappears in coffee	Also published here Shorter and Sweeter (David Ben, 1985)	2003	Tricks	11	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Alan Wakeling	Holland	white and black tissue paper are torn and restored into chef's hat and apron, borrowed ring and some more ingredients put in a dove pan, ring appears in cake Notes (Jim Steinmeyer)		Sep. 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 9)	73	Paper / Torn & Restored Ring / Finger Rings / Traveling / Miscellaneous Food / Cake Apparatus & Dealer Props / Dove Pan Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Jon Allen	Citizen Cane	white and brown sugar packets are signed, sugar inside packets change places	Also published here Citizen Kane (Jon Allen, 1995)	July 2009	MAGIC (Vol. 18 No. 11)	56	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly) Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Sugar Packet / Transposition
Gregory Wilson, David Gripenwaldt	Sweet Nothings	Coffeehouse Conjuring sugar is poured in hand from sugar packet and vanishes, it reappears in straw that has been used as a wand		Jan. 2011	MAGIC (Vol. 20 No. 5)	72	Straw Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly) Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Sugar Packet / Miscellaneous
Alexander de Cova	Der (fast) Perfekte Salztrick	"nach Slydini", using thumb tip with loop	Also published here Der (fast) Perfekte Salztrick (Alexander de Cova, 1990)	2013	Horizons — Das Alexander de Cova Seminar 1986	57	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Michael Weber, Tim Trono	White Chain	ideas for usage of thin small white chain to simulate a salt or sugar pour credits on the small table & large table optical illusion by Bill Mullins (website bonus from Mar. 2013)	Related to Coffee Machine (Michael Weber, Michael Close, Eric A. Maurin, 1991) Table Illusion (Michael Weber, Tim Trono, 2013) White Chain Credits (Michael Weber, Tim Trono, 2013)	Mar. 2013	Real Secrets (Vol. 1 No. 12)	1	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Salt Pour Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Michael Weber, Tim Trono	White Chain Credits	using a small white chain to simulate a salt or sugar pour (website bonus from Mar. 2013)	Related to White Chain (Michael Weber, Tim Trono, 2013)	Mar. 2013	Real Secrets (Vol. 1 No. 12)	1	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Salt Pour Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Alexander de Cova	Salzproduktion			2017	Arbeitsbuch Daumenspitze	46	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Salt Pour Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Alexander de Cova	Brush Vanish			2017	Arbeitsbuch Daumenspitze	57	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Alexander de Cova	Der Salztrick	salt travels from hand to hand		2017	Arbeitsbuch Daumenspitze	71	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Kieron Johnson	Diabetics Nightmare	sugar vanishes in mouth, then reappears in pen and pours out for a long time		2018	The Time Traveller	87	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Salt Pour Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Christoph Borer, Michel Gammenthaler	Die Zuckerwanderung	sugar travels from one performer to another, using spoon		2024	Inventum	161	Spoon & Fork Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)
Tim Conover	Salt Pour	salt poured in hand vanishes, then it appears again and pours from fist, then from both fists	Inspired by The Salt Trick (Ross Bertram, 1978)	2025	Conover — Volume 1: The Magic of Tim Conover	99	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Salt Pour Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Traveling & Vanish / Hands (mostly)