66 entries for Jack Vosburgh

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Theodore Annemann A Matter of Policy story gag trick with twenty giant cards, ten democrats and ten republics, see page 54 for further comments and page 99 for improvement by Max Holden, see page 172 for improvement by Andrew Brennan
Related to June 1935
The Jinx (Issue 9)
35
Jack Vosburgh A Principle in Disguise one-way deck throw-off, see credit correction on page 49
Related to 1935
The Jinx (Issue Summer Extra 1935)
45
Theodore Annemann July 1935 on Jack Vosburgh, Arthur Felsman, Harry Blackstone, John Mulholland, Dave Alliston, Pablo, U. F. Grant, Frank Lane
 		July 1935
The Jinx (Issue 10)
49
Jack Vosburgh Money in the Pocket marked coin vanishes in trouser fold and reappears in pocket, repeat
Related to 1936
The Jinx (Issue Winter Extra 1935/36)
87
Orville Wayne Meyer Remote Control Improved odd-backed unknown card signed on back is chosen from face
Inspired byRelated toVariationsAlso published here 1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
112
Theodore Annemann Remote Control odd-backed unknown card signed on back is chosen from face, red-blue sticky double backer
Related toVariationsAlso published here
  • "Remote Control" (The Sphinx, July 1929, Max Holden's column, description without method)
 1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
121
Harry Vosburgh A Principle in Disguise divided one-way backs
Inspired by 1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
160
Jack Vosburgh The Future Deck prediction written on a playing card matches selection, gaffed deck with cards already written on the faces, related to Curry's "Touch"
VariationsAlso published here 1940
The Jinx (Issue 108)
645
Jack Vosburgh Love Conquers All "A New Card Story"
 		1940
The Jinx (Issue 109)
650
Jack Vosburgh Stalemate
1940
The Jinx (Issue 113)
671
Jack Vosburgh "Fifth Column" political story presentation
Related to 1940
The Jinx (Issue 114)
675
Jack Vosburgh, Sid Lorraine, Theodore Annemann Cherchez La Lady performer finds money card in different situations
Also published here 1940
The Jinx (Issue 116)
687
Jack Vosburgh Words homonyms principle
Variations 1940
The Jinx (Issue 119)
699
Jack Vosburgh Gum at Large two gums from two different packages change places (their flavors)
 		1940
The Jinx (Issue 120)
705
Jack Vosburgh Help from Hades three cards selected, and written on paper and lost, found again with pieces of paper, miscall
 		1940
The Jinx (Issue 121)
708
Jack Vosburgh The Mystery of the Suits one of the Aces is selected and found, then the suit of another selected Ace is predicted
 		1940
The Jinx (Issue 122)
711
Jack Vosburgh Double Dollar bill folded so that it looks like two bills, then it actually doubles
Related to 1940
The Jinx (Issue 122)
711
Jack Vosburgh Double Edged Sword of Might two card prediction, one-ahead, mirage deck
 		1940
The Jinx (Issue 122)
713
Jack Vosburgh Ten and One ten and one put on table, spectator puts two coins on top, coincidence, nail punch
Also published here 1941
The Jinx (Issue 124)
721
Jack Vosburgh Once in a Life Time odd-backed unknown card is chosen from face
Related to 1941
The Jinx (Issue 125)
727
Jack Vosburgh Money Enraptured bill becomes giant bill
 		1941
The Jinx (Issue 126)
731
Jack Vosburgh Pay Day coins distributed to envelopes with mathematical procedure, predicted, see page 746 for correction
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1941
The Jinx (Issue 128)
738
Jack Vosburgh Automaton Spell using one-way backs
 		1941
The Jinx (Issue 130)
748
Jack Vosburgh Monk's Mystery 14-15 stack that forces number
VariationsAlso published here Nov. 1941
The Jinx (Issue 150)
880
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on DeLand, J. G. Thompson, Bill Larsen, Orville Meyer, Jack Vosburgh, Scarne and Walsh
 		Oct. 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 71)
291
Jack Vosburgh Monks Mystery 14-15 stack that forces number, with slates
Also published here 1944
Practical Mental Effects
73
Jack Vosburgh Pay Day coins distributed to envelopes with mathematical procedure, predicted
Also published here 1944
Practical Mental Effects
241
Jack Vosburgh Cherchez La Lady performer finds money card in different situations
Also published here 1944
Practical Mental Effects
286
Jack Vosburgh The Future Deck prediction written on a playing card matches selection, gaffed deck with cards already written on the faces, related to Curry's "Touch"
Also published here 1945
My Best
117
Jack Vosburgh Trinking Test objects placed in hat, medium knows which were removed
 		1945
My Best
217
James G. Thompson Jr. Biographical Sketches of Contributors
  • Theo. Annemann
  • Charles Arbuthnot
  • George E. Arrowsmith
  • Roger Barkann
  • Sylvan Barnet
  • Joseph L. Barnett
  • Raymond L. Beebe
  • Eugene Bernstein
  • J. B. Bobo
  • John N. Booth
  • Tom Bowyer
  • Vynn Boyar
  • Joan Brandon
  • Fred Braue
  • John Braun
  • Lu Brent
  • R. C. Buff
  • Clyde F. Cairy
  • Loring Campbell
  • Jack Chanin
  • Frank Chapman
  • Forest V. Chesbro
  • Milbourne Christopher
  • Eddie Clever
  • Stanley Collins
  • Mystic Craig
  • Thomas J. Crawford
  • John J. Crimmins, JR.
  • Paul J. Curry
  • Del Monte
  • Harry Dobrin
  • Ronald B. Edwards
  • Bruce Elliot
  • Professor El-Tab
  • Dr. E. G. Ervin
  • Dr. Henry Ridgely Evans
  • Val Evans
  • "Hen" Fetsch
  • Thomas B. Fitzgerald
  • Dariel Fitzkee
  • Sid Fleischman
  • Joseph Harman Fries
  • Martin Gardner
  • Teral Garrett
  • Walter B. Gibson
  • Arnold L. Grubin
  • Nelson C. Hahne
  • Hathaway
  • Royal V. Heath
  • Charles H. Hopkins
  • Jean Hugard
  • Mark Jacobs
  • R. M. Jamison
  • F. H. Jeudevine
  • Maurice Kains
  • George G. Kaplan
  • George Karger
  • Joseph A. Karson
  • Wilbur Kattner
  • Gerald Lynton Kaufman
  • Howard B. Kayton, M.D.
  • The Great Kolar
  • Gerald Kosky
  • Abril Lamarque
  • William W. Larsen
  • Sid Lorraine
  • Art Lyle
  • L. Vosburgh Lyons
  • Richard F. Madden
  • Greer Marechal, JR.
  • George McAthy
  • William H. McCaffrey
  • Jack McMillen
  • Harry Mendoza
  • Orville Meyer
  • John W. Mifflin
  • Chester Morris
  • Paul Morris
  • Frederick Mosteller
  • Robert A. Nelson
  • C. A. George Newmann
  • Grady S. Nicholson
  • Dr. Cecil E. Nixon
  • Charles Walter Nyquist
  • Dell O'Dell
  • Tom Osborne
  • George Harrison Pittman
  • Julien J. Proskauer
  • Clayton Rawson
  • Ralph W. Read
  • Dolf Rudin
  • Herb Rungie
  • Ned Rutledge
  • James J. Sanders
  • Lucille Pierce Saxon
  • Sigmar - The Magician
  • Jerry Sorensen
  • Willard S. Smith
  • George Starke
  • Dr. Raymond V. Stone, SR. (RAMO)
  • Harlan Tarbell
  • DR. Franklin Taylor
  • J. G. Thompson, JR.
  • Jack F. Trebel
  • M. Van Reese
  • Jack Vosburgh
  • Audley Valentine Walsh
  • Peter Warlock
  • Herman L. Weber
  • Bob Weill
  • William H. Wilson
  • Tommy Windsor
  • Howard H. Wise
  • Ed. Wolff
  • Michael F. Zens
 		1945
My Best
347
Jack Vosburgh Colorvoyance shape or number is written down with one of three colors, both is divined
 		1945
Miracles in Mentalism and Psychic Experimentation
25
Jack Vosburgh Impression Device carbon paper, coin envlopes
 		1945
Miracles in Mentalism and Psychic Experimentation
25
The Great Fataque In the Fold coin vanishes in trouser fold, also as a penetration into pocket
Related to Mar. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 79)
321
Tommy Dowd Liars! three poker chips with a different stamps on it are selected, one of three spectators has to lie the other two tell the truth, performer knows who has which chip
Inspired by
  • an idea of Jack Vosburgh's "More than a Trick"
Variations 		Aug. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 90)
364
Gerald Kosky The Plot's the Thing two plots and routine for murder game
Also published here Dec. 1950
The Phoenix (Issue 217)
867
Jack Vosburgh The Future Deck No. 136, prediction written on a playing card matches selection, gaffed deck with cards already written on the faces, related to Curry's "Touch"
Also published here 1950
Scarne on Card Tricks
262
Pocket Vanish coin through trouser to the inside pocket, then it vanishes
Related to 1952
Modern Coin Magic
52
Jack Vosburgh Ten and One ten and one put on table, spectator puts two coins on top, coincidence, nail punch
Also published here May 1962
The New Jinx (Vol. 1 No. 1)
4
Jack Vosburgh Clip paper clip vanishes and is found on selection in the deck
 		1972
The Living End
98
Jack Vosburgh The Awful Truth
Variations 1972
The Living End
139
Jack Vosburgh My Number Your Card
1972
The Living End
143
Karl Fulves Going.... Aces vanish one at a time on deck, credit information, Ace-vanish idea with double backer by Vosburgh
Related toVariations May 1975
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 10 No. 7)
959
Gerald Kosky, Jack Vosburgh The Plot's The Thing Instruction game, divination of removed items or murder
  • Plot #1... The Big Robbery
  • Plot #2... It's Murder
Inspired byAlso published here 1975
The Magic of Gerald Kosky
110
Jack Vosburgh, Edward Marlo Packet Switch
Dec. 1976
Pabular (Vol. 3 No. 4)
340
Jack Vosburgh, Edward Marlo Packet Switch
Also published here 1976
Classic Tackler
14
Philip T. Goldstein Printed Matter prediction of chosen word, ambigram prediction as two-way out
Inspired by 1979
Magick (Issue 236)
1177
Larry Becker Uncanny deck with words written on them, two are selected by spelling and divined, homonyms method
Inspired by
  • Words (Jack Vosburgh, 1940)
  • J. G. Thompson Jr.'s "Jet Thought" marketed by Ed Mellon in the 1950s.
 1979
The Best of Larry Becker's World of Super Mentalism Book II
31
Jack Vosburgh Scrambled Thoughts No. 11, Ace, Two and Three held by three spectators, two spectators exchange cards with back turned, performer knows which
 		1979
Self-Working Mental Magic
16
Orville Wayne Meyer Das Mörderspiel
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 12 No. 12, 1955
 Nov. 1980
Intermagic (Vol. 7 No. 3)
100
Edward Marlo, Jack Vosburgh Double Proof Triple Prediction three selections are predicted on both billets and other cards, extension of Vosburgh's "Prediction Deck"
 		1983
Marlo's Plus Package
65
Sam Schwartz Mental Monk 14-15 stack that forces number and thus a word into Astrology book
Inspired by 1983
Astrology — The Hidden Force
31
Double Your Money No. 11, folding one bill so it looks like two
Related to 1985
Self-Working Paper Magic
23
Jack Vosburgh, Edward Marlo Packet Switch
Also published here 1986
Mirage
19
Edward Marlo Vanishing Aces Aces vanish one by one from top of deck, effect by Jack Vosburgh, ungaffed
Related toAlso published here
  • The New Tops, Feb. 1964
 1988
M.I.N.T. — Volume I
51
Reinhard Müller, Jack Vosburgh Die Lügner three spectator take an object each and then switch them, even though only one tells truth, performer locates objects
 		1988
Magische Blätter (Vol. 2 No. 2)
7
Edward Marlo Note "Marlo's special handling of the Thick Double Back card to a a Jack Vosburgh effect"
method to ring in the gaff
 		1995
M.I.N.T. — Volume II
320
Tommy Wonder Splitting the Profit splitting dollar bill in two that become one again
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1996
The Books of Wonder — Volume 2
46
Barrie Richardson The Lazy Mentalist three chairs, sentences in envelopes match prediction
Related toAlso published here 1999
Theater of the Mind
152
Michael Sibbernsen Future Shock prediction written on a playing card matches selection
Inspired by 2000
Card File Two
96
Karl Fulves After Jack "Problems"
half deck vor spectator and performer, a card is chosen and exchanged, they transpose back and are reversed, posed as problem
Inspired by
  • Jack Vosburgh two-deck effect
 2002
Latter Day Secrets (Issue 7)
257
Stewart James Vocalculate Lie detector plot, three people select a card each, magician divines each card by detecting lies
Inspired byAlso published here
  • handwritten notes, 1945
 2007
The Essential Stewart James
62
Gene Anderson Vanishing Match vanish of burning match
  • A. Performance
  • B. Gene's script
Related to 2016
Gene Anderson — The Book
39
Jack Vosburgh A Principle in Disguise Reversal Secretly get a selection to be placed reversed end for end in a one-way deck
Related to 2017
The Secret of the Butterflies
29
Asi Wind Time is Money two bills placed in spectator's hand, one travels underneath his watch, with idea from Nimrod Harel, see also p. 156 for suggestion of using two different bills
Inspired by
  • "Two for the Price of One" (131 Magic Tricks for Amateurs, Will Dexter, 1958)
Related toAlso published here 		2018
Repertoire
1
Thomas Stauss Doubling Money bill folded so that it looks like two bills
Related to 2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue Sep. 5)
260