Gaffs

29 entries in Cup / Cups & Balls / Two & Three Cups Routines / Gaffs
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Eddie Joseph The Automatic Cup pin attached to inside of cup
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 26
Eddie Joseph The Four-Point Cup four pins attached to inside of cup
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 27
Eddie Joseph The Cup that Delivers secret compartment in cup for load
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 27
Eddie Joseph The "Auto" Producing and Vanishing Cup secret shelf inside cup
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 28
Eddie Joseph The Brodie secret ball holder inside cup
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 28
Eddie Joseph Salt and Pepper two secret compartments in cup
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 29
Eddie Joseph Real Ice Cream Cone from Cup with dry ice in cup to keep it cold
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 30
Eddie Joseph Real Ice Cubs from Cup secret rubber compartment inside cup
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 31
Eddie Joseph Jelly from Cup jelly produced from cup, using a wand with hook
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 32
Eddie Joseph The "Robot" Cup secret lever inside cup, operated with small knob on outside
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 33
Eddie Joseph The Half Shelf for producing soft loads from cup
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 33
Eddie Joseph Chinese Lantern from Cup
1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 33
Eddie Joseph Large Stack of Coins from Cup
1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 34
Eddie Joseph The Bird Nest live canary hidden in cup throughout routine
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 36
Eddie Joseph Rapid Hatching gaffed cup to change an egg into a bird/canary
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 38
Eddie Joseph Another Canary Production from gaffed cup
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 38
Eddie Joseph The Reptile in the Cup spring snake from gaffed cup
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 39
Eddie Joseph Liquid Production rubber balloons hidden in cup
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 40
Eddie Joseph The Water Fountain small water fountain comes out of mouth-side-up cup
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 40
Eddie Joseph Firing the Cup fire from cups
Related to
  • "The Flaming Cups" (earlier Eddie Joseph book on Cups and Balls)
 1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 43
Eddie Joseph The Inexhaustible Stream
1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 48
Eddie Joseph The "Blooming" Roses spring flowers from cup
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 48
Eddie Joseph Brimful of Wine wine production from cup
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 49
Eddie Joseph Mechanical Routine gaffed cups
 		1942 The Last Word on Cups and Balls 61
Franklin V. Taylor Taylor's Cups and Balls three cups, gaffed, thread and sponge, gimmicked possibility to make a ball appear under a cup
VariationsAlso published here 1945 The Phoenix 51-100 (Issue 75) 304
Franklin V. Taylor Taylor's Cups and Balls three cups, gaffed, thread and sponge, gimmicked possibility to make a ball appear under a cup
Also published here 1953 Classic Secrets of Magic 187
Karl Fulves (E) Cup Gaff thin cup shell, posed as problem
 		1978 Interlocutor (Issue 24) 94
Horace Goldin The Horace Golding Baffling Cup gaffed cup to vanish a ball under it
 		1979 The Very Best of Cups and Balls 103
John Gaughan French Ball Grabbers
  • The Chamber of Secrets
cups with compartments that can hold balls
 		Feb. 2015 Genii (Vol. 78 No. 2) 18