Folding

120 entries in Coin / Gaffed / Folding
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Unknown To Pass Coins into a Bottle folding coin, hidden in cork
 		1890 More Magic 158
Unknown Coin to Bottle Wand mechanical wand to introduce folding coin into bottle
 		1890 More Magic 160
Unknown A Hat with a Hole in it
  • The Finger through the Hat
  • The Cork through the Hat
  • The Coin through the Hat
  • The Cigar through the Hat
 		1890 More Magic 306
Carl Willmann Der Zauberstab und seine verschiedenen Präparationen
  • wand for continuous cigarette production
  • wand to ignite candle, chemical or with match
  • coin catching wand, two versions (one with folding coin, continued in next issue)
 		Mar. 1895 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 1 No. 3) 33
Carl Willmann Der Zauberstab und seine verschiedenen Präparationen
  • continuation of description of coin catching wand with folding coin
  • feather flower tree/bouquet from hollow wand
  • wand that can shoot
 		Apr. 1895 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 1 No. 4) 49
Unknown Der magische Flaschenstöpsel folding corn in hollow cork with release mechanism
 		Sep. 1898 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 4 No. 9) 136
Unknown Der Thalerstab No. 8, coin wand, either with coin attached to rubber band or with folding coin that retracts into wand, for continuous production
 		1900 Der Amateurzauberer 23
Unknown Der magische Flaschenstöpsel No. 16, fake metal cork contains folding coin, spring catapults coin out of cork into bottle
 		1900 Der Amateurzauberer 48
Arthur "Dr. Avon" Kollmann Ein neuer Münzentrick folding coin in fake finger, credit information
Related to
  • "New Coin Production from Bare Hands" (T. Nelson Downs, Modern Coin Manipulation, 1900, p. 130)
 Mar. 1901 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 7 No. 3) 38
Unknown Coin and Bottle
1935 Coin Magic 41
Unknown Coin Through Ring coin wrapped in handkerchief penetrates finger ring
 		1935 Coin Magic 41
Unknown Folding Coins construction and use including: To Make One Coin and a Folded Coin Appear as Three Coins, Formula for Silver Cement to Fill the Gap
 		1938 Greater Magic 676
John Mulholland On the Coin in Bottle
1940 The Jinx (Issue 108) 648
Joseph Ovette A Lulu! coin vanishes and appears in rolled up bill, to small to hold the coin
 		1940 Chap's Scrapbook (Vol. 2 No. 10) 3
Franklin V. Taylor Materialization coin appears with the help of a spring clothes-pin and a handkerchief
Variations 1942 The Phoenix 1-50 (Issue 22) 91
E.S. Hoffman Cute Coin coin production gimmick
 		1943 The Phoenix 1-50 (Issue 31) 129
William H. McCaffrey Coin in Bottle Routine
1943 The Magic 36 31
Orson Welles Fruit Cup coin in egg in lemon in orange in grapefruit using a clothespin
Inspired byAlso published here 1944 The Phoenix 51-100 (Issue 61) 250
Franklin V. Taylor Materialization Coin appears with the help of a spring clothes-pin and a handkerchief
 		1945 My Best 195
Chester Morris The Morris Plan Coin in handkerchief secured by a ring, penetrates the ring
 		1945 My Best 210
Samuel Berland Pinched pieces are broken of from a half dollar, last piece transforms into a quarter
 		1946 The Phoenix 101-150 (Issue 105) 423
John Hamilton All Wet moves and subtleties for coin in bottle
 		1946 The Phoenix 101-150 (Issue 111) 447
J. B. Bobo The Magic Mint nickel in the hand, half dollar appears, nickel transforms into another half dollar
 		1947 Watch This One! 97
Jack Miltour La bague et la pièce prisonnières coin in handkerchief penetrates finger ring, followed by german translation "Der Ring und das gefangene Geldstück"
 		1947 La Baguette Magique (Issue 16) 8
R. M. Jamison Half Dollar in the Bottle coin starts in bottle
 		1948 The Phoenix 151-200 (Issue 154) 622
Bill Williston, Ray Cox Half Dollar in Egg
July 1949 Grant's Inner Circle Magazine (Vol. 1 No. 9 & 10) 10
J. B. Bobo The Folding Half introduction
 		1952 Modern Coin Magic 286
Ralph De Shong The Half Dollar in the Bottle
1952 Modern Coin Magic 286
Stewart Judah Second Method
Variations 1952 Modern Coin Magic 288
Unknown The Magic Mint nickel in the hand, half dollar appears, nickel transforms into another half dollar
 		1952 Modern Coin Magic 289
Gene Gordon Biting a Piece from a Coin
1952 Modern Coin Magic 290
Dave Coleman Coin Through a Card (The Folding Quarter) with handkerchief
 		1952 Modern Coin Magic 291
Ronald B. Edwards Just A Half magician's joke, tearing up a folding half
 		1954 The Phoenix 251 — 300 (Issue 299) 1197
Karrell Fox That's a Hot One coin vanishes and appears in a folded tissue paper which is to small for the coin, flash paper
 		1954 Kornfidentially Yours 12
Don Alan Sneaky Half Dollar in Bottle coin in bottle combined with Anti-Gravico gimmick
 		1956 Pretty Sneaky 32
Milton Kort Cup-hola paper cup has small hole at the bottom, large coin placed in cup, manages to fall through the hole
Related toVariations 1962 Kort Is Now In Session 15
Dino Mazza Half-Fast Surprise half dollar from paper which is too small to contain it
 		1963 The New Phoenix 351-400 (Issue 382) 355
Dino Mazza Dino's Silver Phantasy two coins produced from rolled bill
Related to 1964 The New Phoenix 351-400 (Issue 388) 379
Robert E. Olson Folding Money coin is produced from a smaller container
 		1965 The New Phoenix 351-400 (Issue 395/396) 410
Si Weigan Half and Half dollar bill is rolled in a tube and half dollar is produced, half of bill is missing
 		1965 The New Phoenix 351-400 (Issue 399) 425
Unknown The New Folding Half
1966 The New Modern Coin Magic 438
Bob Ostin My Coin in Bottle Routine with cork
 		1968 Fingertip Fantasies 67
Hans G. Stumpf, George Leitmayr Match Sword Box coin in matchbox is penetrated by six matches
 		1969 The Art of Close-Up Magic — Volume 2 91
Don Nielsen Trance Coin copper coin in match box, silver coin in Okito box, copper travels into Okito box, lifts lid and jumps out, see also p. 486 for credit information and comment by Kenn E. Eastin
Related to
  • "Tribute to Okito" (Dennis Loomis, 1963, Tops)
 Nov. 1971 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 7 No. 1) 466
Ellison Poland Bird In Glass Cage
1973 Wonderful Routines of Magic — The First Addendum 65
Milton Kort Bottom's Up coin drops through hole at the bottom of a glass that is too small, see 1994 reference for Kort credit information
Related to 1973 Wonderful Routines of Magic — The First Addendum 67
Karl Fulves Money Talks spirit raps with two coins and a pencil
 		1974 Close-Up Mental Magic 44
Alex De Vega Elastic three coins dropped on table, one vanishes or penetrates table, folding coin simulates third coin, with ideas by Karl Fulves and J. G. Thompson, Jr
Also published here
  • "Elastic" (The Sphinx, 1918)
 June 1975 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 10 No. 8) 969
Francis Carlyle Notes
  • folding coin and bottle through table
  • loading coin on dentist dam
  • spectator sits on card
 		1975 The Magic of Francis Carlyle 109
Karl Fulves Folding Coin Gag for magicians, using welded obvious folding coin
 		1976 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 10 No. Close-Up Folio #1) 880
Darion Sagan, Philip T. Goldstein Half Through coin through hand
 		Aug. 1977 Pabular (Vol. 3 No. 12) 452
Barrie Richardson Coin In bottle - Mentalism & Molecules folding coin is signed and bottle is broken with a hammer
Variations Dec. 1977 Pabular (Vol. 4 No. 4) 501
Paul Harris Torn & Restored Coin Three pieces of a coin fuses into one coin
Variations 1977 SuperMagic 42
Eric Mason A Pound With A Bottle coin in bottle, forming a cone with a bill
 		May 1978 Pabular (Vol. 4 No. 9) 574
Peter Crush Peter's Presto Pop-In English penny in tonic bottle by placing the coin on the neck and pushing it in
 		May 1978 Pabular (Vol. 4 No. 9) 575
Billy McComb Coin to Bottle with folding coin index
 		1978/76 More Classic Magic with Apparatus 138
Bill Wisch Quick Quarter & Half half dollar changes into quarter and back, travels to pocket, quarter is found under performer's watch, "quarter to half gimmick" (folding)
 		1979 Wisches 17
Michael Ammar Let's Hit the Bottle corked bottle
Also published here 1980 The Command Performance — Premier Issue 28
Steve Dusheck Half Back penny dropped from bulldog clip visually changes into half dollar
Also published here 1980 ca. Lecture Notes 9
Danny Korem The Tip and the Coin small coin vanishes in thumb tip, variation with folding half
 		1981 The Lost Pages of the Kabbala 94
Mike Caveney Folding Money 32 pennies should travel from a purse into a tube, instead they vanish from the purse and in the tube a Dollar is found, actually too big to fit inside
 		1981 Magicomedy 13
John Carney Le Perrier - Coin In Bottle
Related to 1981 Encore II 40
Tom Gagnon Thumb-Tipping Quickies credit information on using a folding coin with a thumb tip
 		1981 Sleightly Original 1
Tom Gagnon Coin to Pocket Ruse coin travels from coin to pocket and back
Inspired by 1981 Sleightly Original 3
Tom Gagnon Thumb Tip Coin Vanish
Related to 1981 Sleightly Original 4
Tom Gagnon Flip Up Production invisible coin flipped into air, it appears
Inspired byAlso published here 1981 Sleightly Original 6
Tom Gagnon Bomb Bay coin produced in empty hands
Also published here 1981 Sleightly Original 10
Tom Gagnon Double Duty Departure two coins vanish one by one, two folding coins and thumb tip
 		1981 Sleightly Original 13
Tom Gagnon Twofold Vanish two coins vanish one by one, two folding coins and thumb tip
 		1981 Sleightly Original 16
Tom Gagnon Coin-cidence coin appears and vanishes in bare hands
 		1981 Sleightly Original 18
Tom Gagnon Flash Coin Production coin appears one-handed
 		1981 Sleightly Original 22
Tom Gagnon Miser's Daydream featuring a continuous coin production sequence with folding coin and thumb tip
Inspired by 1981 Sleightly Original 26
Tom Gagnon Alchemorphosis five dimes in prescription bottle change into a larger gold coin
 		1981 Sleightly Original 31
Tom Gagnon Contemporary Purse Swindle copper and silver coins in two purses, spectator can never guess the right one, sort of transposition
Inspired by 1981 Sleightly Original 36
Tom Gagnon Optional Display Technique
1981 Sleightly Original 38
Tom Gagnon Twilight's Last Gleaming coins are produced with a small mirror
Inspired by 1981 Sleightly Original 43
Tom Gagnon Newfangled Matrix
1981 Sleightly Original 47
Tom Gagnon The Phantom Coin much on table top
Inspired by
  • "One Coin Routine" (Slydini Encores)
 1981 Sleightly Original 54
Tom Gagnon Gypsy Coin coin through handkerchief
 		1981 Sleightly Original 62
Tom Gagnon Soda Jerk coin in bottle with transposition phase, folding copper/silver
Inspired by 1981 Sleightly Original 89
Tom Gagnon Flick Your "Trick" Load flicking a coin under a mirror for use in Twilight Routine
 		1981 Sleightly Original 92
Bobby Bernard A Useful Switch Switching normal coin for folding coin
 		1982 The Coin and Card Magic of Bobby Bernard 37
Tom Gagnon Bomb Bay Production coin productions with thumb tip
  • First Method
  • Flip Up Production
Also published here 1982 Fork Full of Appetizers 46
Bob Chesbro Coin to Pocket with repeat
VariationsAlso published here
  • "Impossible Coin to Pocket" (The Blueprint)
 1982 The Tipnician 42
Bob Chesbro Thumb Tip Coin Vanish
Related toVariations 1982 The Tipnician 42
Michael Skinner Slowly Folding slow motion coin vanish using a folding coin
 		1983 The Collected Almanac (Vol. 2 No. 16) 145
"Magic" Christian Stelzel The Coin in the Bottle bottle is smashed with hammer to bring coin out again
 		1983 Lecture Magic 16
David Gripenwaldt Door to Infinity coin vanishes and reappears in metal ring
Related to 1984 West Coast Quarterly (Vol. 1 No. 1) 76
Thomas Alan Waters, Maurice Fogel Flamulet five envelopes hanging on a stand, attached with a bulldog clip, spectator finds amulet (coin)
 		1984 Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Mynd) 545
Patrick Page The Coin Production two methods, one using handkerchief
 		1984 Book of Thumb Tips 27
David Roth Folding Coins Through Table
1985 Expert Coin Magic 52
David Roth Folding Coins Across
1985 Expert Coin Magic 56
Tom Gagnon Pop Top coin vanish and appearance, thumb tip and folding coin
 		1988 The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 23) 386
Tom Gagnon The Tipsy Vanish
1988 The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 23) 387
Tom Gagnon The Tipsy Production half dollar production
 		1988 The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 23) 388
Karrell Fox "A New Look at an Old Effect" cone funnel twisted with dollar bill, used to drop coin into bottle
 		1988 My Latest Book 24
John Bannon, Rick Johnsson Vacuum Packed folding coin, removed with tweezers, two handlings
Also published here 1989 Without 1
John Bannon, Rick Johnsson Vacuum Packed folding coin, removed with tweezers, two handlings
Also published here 1991 Smoke and Mirrors 148
John Bannon Care And Feeding of Folding Quarters
1991 Smoke and Mirrors 151
Ted Lesley Die Faltmünze coin in bottle, long article with multiple versions
 		1991 Avantgarde Magic (Vol. 1 No. 3) 4
Steve Dusheck Experiment No. 17 folding coin vanishes
Related to 1991 Dusheck's Thumb Tip Magic 58
Patrick Page Die Münze in der Flasche
Also published here
  • Pages from Patrick's Notebook
 Dec. 1991 Intermagic (Vol. 16 No. 4&5) 146
Steve Dusheck Jumbo Coin Catcher folding/hinged jumbo coin gimmick
 		1992 Dusheck's Coin Magic 74
Steve Dusheck Half Back penny dropped from bulldog clip visually changes into half dollar
Also published here 1992 Dusheck's Coin Magic 90
Alexander de Cova Fingertip Hints using finger tip instead of thumb tip, coin in purse frame application
 		1994 Secrets No. 1 109
Mark Lefler Deflation coin vanishes piece by piece
 		1994 The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 52) 949
Paul Harris Torn & Restored Coin (revised) three pieces of coin melt together into coin, using folding coin
Inspired by 1996 The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue Super Magic) 145
Michael Kaminskas Hitting the Bottle bottle is produced then coin in bottle, as a climax bottle vanishes
 		1996 Miracle Material 81
Bob King Coin in Bottle with sleeving
Also published here 1996 Five-Star Magic 5
Barrie Richardson Molecules in Motion initialed coin in bottle, then other objects as well like key, button, ring, bottle smashed at the end
Inspired by 1999 Theater of the Mind 30
Orson Welles Fruit Cup coin in egg in lemon in orange in grapefruit using a clothespin
Also published here Feb. 2000 Genii (Vol. 63 No. 2) 31
David Berglas Coin in the Bottle coin in in bottle, as an encore marked coin is put in bottle again and handed out as a souvenir
 		2002 The Mind & Magic of David Berglas 139
Bob King Coin in Bottle with sleeving
Also published here 2003 New Magician Foolers 4
Bob Chesbro, Tom Stone Thumb Tip Coin Vanish
Inspired by 2011 Maelstrom 13
Alexander de Cova Münzverschwinden
2017 Arbeitsbuch Daumenspitze 73
Alexander de Cova Produktion aus dem Geldbörsenbügel coin or sponge ball production from purse frame
 		2017 Arbeitsbuch Daumenspitze 73
Johnny Thompson Coin in the Bottle
2018 The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 2) 51
Johnny Thompson Folding Coin Holder
2018 The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 2) 51
Tom Gagnon Tipsy Coin Vanish one of several coins vanishes
Inspired by 2019 Gagnon Unfiltered 425
Max Malini Spittoon Coin Vanish coin vanishes from paper cone which is crumpled up and thrown in the trash, reproduced from spectator (optional), variant with coin reappearing under ash tray and folding coin
Related to
  • Elwin T. Shaw's article in Hugard's Magic Monthly, Nov. 1961
 2022 Max Malini 120