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Al Baker Al Baker's Billet Reading Extraordinary one ahead
1920s
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue The Twenty-Five Dollar Manuscript)
463
Al Baker Two-Person Slate Test
1920s
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue The Twenty-Five Dollar Manuscript)
465
Al Baker My Method of getting rid of flap while in audience see title
1920s
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue The Twenty-Five Dollar Manuscript)
466
Al Baker The Billet Test
1920s
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue The Twenty-Five Dollar Manuscript)
467
Al Baker How to exchange a pack of cards a prearranged pack pocket
Related to 1920s
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue The Twenty-Five Dollar Manuscript)
467
Al Baker The Pack that Cuts itself thread
1920s
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue The Twenty-Five Dollar Manuscript)
470
Al Baker Living and Dead Test
Related to 1920s
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue The Twenty-Five Dollar Manuscript)
471
Al Baker Al Baker's Mind-Reading Card Trick locator cards, one-ahead, billets
1920s
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue The Twenty-Five Dollar Manuscript)
474
Al Baker Al Baker's Deck of Cards with wide locator
1920s
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue The Twenty-Five Dollar Manuscript)
474
Al Baker Two Souls with but a single Thought coincidence & prediction, two cards
Related toAlso published here 1920s
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue The Twenty-Five Dollar Manuscript)
476
Al Baker Two Souls With But a Single Thought coincidence & prediction, two cards
Also published here 1928 9
Mathematical Trick Al Baker's date addition force, result predicted with digits of four cards
Related to 1928 26
Eric F. Impey Stop (Simplified Version)
Inspired by 1928 7
Al Baker Introduction
Also published here 1931 7
Al Baker Al Baker's Pack combo pack
  • 1. One Way
  • 2. Short
  • 3. Wide
  • 4. Si Stebbins
Variations 1932
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Al Baker's Pack)
479
Al Baker The Two-Card Location one-way
Related to 1932
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Al Baker's Pack)
481
Al Baker The Card Counting Mystery cutting same amount than spectator, short and wide cards
Related to 1932
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Al Baker's Pack)
481
Al Baker Mind Reading Trick locator cards, one-ahead, billets
1932
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Al Baker's Pack)
483
Al Baker Al Baker's Wonderful Prediction position of card, pocket-writing
1932
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Al Baker's Pack)
484
Al Baker Al Baker's Famous Two Souls Trick coincidence & prediction, two cards
Related to 1932
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Al Baker's Pack)
485
Al Baker Al Baker's Poker Face short card, cards found as they are riffled before the spectators' eyes
Related to 1932
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Al Baker's Pack)
486
Al Baker To My Friends, Magic Lovers
Also published here 1933 6
Al Baker Al Baker's Pack That Cuts itself thread
Also published here 1933 7
Al Baker The One Man "Lights Up" Seance tie for hands
Also published here 1933 9
Al Baker A Card and A Number number free, card forced from a second deck
VariationsAlso published here 1933 11
Al Baker Al Baker's Pet Hat Trick hat as a utility prop to exchange billets or other things
Also published here 1933 12
Al Baker Al Baker's Rising Cards
Also published here 1933 14
Al Baker Feel My Pulse
Also published here 1933 17
Al Baker The Al Baker Wrist Tie through spectator's arm
Also published here 1933 18
Al Baker The Impossible Discovery forcing deck, two deck switches
VariationsAlso published here 1933 21
Al Baker Pocket Switch twice in context
Also published here 1933 21
Al Baker Cards of Thought
Also published here 1933 22
Al Baker Al Baker's Addition Trick with assistent, code
Also published here 1933 25
Al Baker Another Rope is Cut and Restored!
Also published here 1933 27
Al Baker The Finger Points reading body language, thought-of card
Also published here 1933 28
Al Baker The Matchmakers two cards torn, spectator sort out the pieces face down, pedestal prop
Also published here 1933 30
Al Baker "Say When!" two cards, partial forcing deck
Related toAlso published here 1933 32
Al Baker Al Baker's Billet Mystery three billets, envelopes, including the umbrella move
Related toAlso published here 1933 33
Al Baker The Self Unknotting Handkerchief thread, not fixed to body
Also published here 1933 38
Al Baker Color Flight
1934
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Cardially Yours)
487
Al Baker Out on Location interesting
Also published here 1934
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Cardially Yours)
489
Al Baker Eyes All Around a selected card indicates the number of pocketed cards, repeat, set-up
Also published here 1934
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Cardially Yours)
490
Al Baker The Fall of the Wise sucker for wise guys, gaffed
1934
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Cardially Yours)
492
Al Baker A Dirty Trick stacked, daub
1934
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Cardially Yours)
493
Al Baker Al Baker's Stacked Deck eight Kings variant to know positions, fifty cards
1934
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Cardially Yours)
493
Al Baker The One I Like performer know which object is taken, bloodless hand
Also published here 1934
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Cardially Yours)
495
Theodore Annemann The Two Person Location two bottom cards code two selections to assistant in other room, stacked
Related to 1934 20
Theodore Annemann, Al Baker The Perfect Club Slate Routine name written up secretly on paper appears on slate
VariationsAlso published here 1934 22
Theodore Annemann April 1935 on the death of John Northern Hilliard, Al Baker, over-proof, simplicity
Apr. 1935
The Jinx (Issue 7)
25
Theodore Annemann, Al Baker The Master Mind two decks, three cards are predicted
1935 16
The Lady and Man Card Prediction No. 7, two spectators count down in the deck and remember the card at a chosen number, both predicted
Related to 1935 10
Al Baker To My Friends, Professional and Amateur
Also published here 1935 4
Al Baker A Glass Vanish with liquid
Also published here 1935 5
Al Baker Gee!! deck vanish, with handkerchief, unload in pocket
VariationsAlso published here 1935 7
Al Baker Undercover drawing duplication, mirror (!)
Also published here 1935 9
Al Baker Another 4 Ace Trick! more stand up, one packet in a glass
VariationsAlso published here 1935 11
Al Baker Your Pulse Tells spectator's index finger finds card, thick card ("click")
Also published here 1935 14
Al Baker A Card and A Number - 2nd Method same method, with short cards to mark positions
Inspired byAlso published here 1935 16
Al Baker Baker's Bill Switch
Also published here 1935 18
Al Baker Unsight and Unseen finding two chosen cards in pocket, short pack
VariationsAlso published here 1935 20
Al Baker Sex Appeal ring moves on table, thread
Also published here 1935 22
Al Baker Come Seven! placing three dice onto table in special configuration so different sides add up to seven, spectator cannot duplicate it
Also published here 1935 24
Al Baker Lost and Found divided deck, one riffle shuffle by spectator
Also published here 1935 25
Al Baker Something from Nothing interesting loading principle from table
Also published here 1935 27
Al Baker Pass the Salt using salt, one card of three
Also published here 1935 29
Al Baker Button Button! thread-penetration, using mini-drawer box
Also published here 1935 30
Al Baker The Name Is - ! one billet, using a leather book
Also published here 1935 32
Al Baker Me and the Missus coding card to assistent, stacked pack
Also published here 1935 34
Al Baker A Novel Escape
Also published here 1935 36
Al Baker The Milky Way glass of milk vanishes from paper, reappears in hat
Also published here 1935 38
Theodore Annemann Editor Speaking on Frank Lane, Max Holden, Harlan Tarbell, exposure, Jacob Steisel, Al Baker
1936
The Jinx (Issue Winter Extra 1935/36)
82
Theodore Annemann, Al Baker A Version of the Al Baker Three Billet Trick three cards that are selected (one thought-of) and written on a billet are divined, stacked deck
Also published here Apr. 1936
The Jinx (Issue 19)
108
Al Baker Numero! end sum also predicts name of spectator
VariationsAlso published here July 1936
The Jinx (Issue 22)
125
Theodore Annemann Notaria chosen card and diagram are divined/duplicated, forcing deck, center tear
Related toAlso published here Dec. 1936
The Jinx (Issue 27)
165
Victor Farelli Seventeen Down Selection appears at number foretold by magician. Effect allows magician to secretly cull the four Kings to the top for a later routine.
Inspired by
  • (Al Baker, The Sphinx, 1932)
1936 12
Al Baker Twin Souls two cards
Also published here 1937 17
Al Baker The Finger Points muscle reading, thought of card
Also published here 1937 29
Al Baker Out on Location
Also published here 1937 186
Al Baker Switching the Deck - 3. Al Baker's Method No. 1 pocket work
Related to 1937 190
Al Baker Switching the Deck - 4. Al Baker's Method No. 2 during trick in which cards are felt with fingertips in pocket
1937 190
Al Baker Eyes All Round a selected card indicates the number of pocketed cards, repeat, set-up
Also published here 1937 193
Al Baker A Card and a Number number free, card forced from a second deck
1937 232
Al Baker Impossible Card Discovery forcing deck, two deck switches
1937 284
Al Baker "Say When" two cards, partial forcing deck
1937 322
Al Baker Think "Stop" wax pellet
Related toVariations 1937 323
Al Baker, Audley Walsh Number Please
  • Audley Walsh Method (spectator remembers bottom card, moves that many cards from top to bottom and reads off some cards)
  • Al Baker Method (above method disguised by using a cut and half the deck)
Related toVariations 1937 325
Al Baker Pocket Gesture Deck Switch
Aug. 1937
The Jinx (Issue 35)
237
Theodore Annemann, Al Baker Medium Writes Card Predictions three predictions of a selected written on a piece of paper next to the name of the spectator and thrown into a bowl
1937 6
Al Baker c. The Baker Switch both hands initially shown empty before folding the bill and switching it
1937 11
Al Baker A Problem in Plumbago stacked and daub
Also published here 1938 67
Al Baker The Incomprehensible Divination Row of Ten Cards, see original longer introduction on page 1128
1938 150
Al Baker Another Baker Twist on the old Ten-Card Trick Row of Ten Cards
1938 153
Al Baker The Magic Thrust. II spectator pushes card reversed next to selection behind back
Also published here 1938 262
George G. Kaplan The "Impossible" Location using Natural Card
Related toVariations 1938 269
Al Baker The Migrating Cards odd backed, all at once in spectators' pockets
Also published here 1938 292
Al Baker With Prepared Cards name of a red card is written on every black card in stacked deck
Related toVariations 1938 343
Al Baker A Prediction svengali deck dealt into two piles repeatedly until one card remains, with half-deck clean-up switch
Also published here 1938 433
Al Baker "Cherchez La Femme." (Find the woman.) using stand with three cases with holes onto it
VariationsAlso published here 1938 512
Al Baker Red-Black Detection method to set up during trick
Also published here 1938 542
John Northern Hilliard II. Al Baker Card Stars of the U.S.A. intro
1938 542
Al Baker Mysterious Divination spectators put packets in pocket, performer divines number of cards for each, stacked deck
Also published here 1938 544
Al Baker Al Baker's Dyeing Silks dye tube
1938 609
Al Baker Dime Under One of Three Cards spectator puts dime beneath one of three card, performer divines which card
1938 681
Al Baker The Reborn Cigarette with initialed cigarette
1938 748
Al Baker The New Rice Bowls
1938 839
Al Baker Nufind two key cards
Also published here May 1938
The Jinx (Issue 44)
299
Al Baker Effect 1 roughed
1939
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Effects 1, 2, and 3)
497
Al Baker Effect 2 double backer, Christ Force type challenge location, setting double back key card
Related to 1939
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Effects 1, 2, and 3)
498
Al Baker Effect 3 using index card, matrix principle
1939
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Effects 1, 2, and 3)
499
Al Baker Nested Envelopes Switch
Nov. 1939
The Jinx (Issue 67)
465
Theodore Annemann A Card in Hand card changes in spectator's hand, stabbing presentation, backdated for ten years
Related toVariationsAlso published here Feb. 1940
The Jinx (Issue 80)
522
Theodore Annemann Lady and Gentleman two card prediction with billet index
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here Mar. 1940
The Jinx (Issue 82)
529
Dr. Victor M. Trask Traveling Sugar adaption of Al Baker's Salt Vanish with Rice Bowls
1940
The Jinx (Issue 107)
641
Cagliostro, Jr. (reviewer) S.A.M. Benefit Show Show Review with performers: Fred Keating, The Hanlons, Jay Palmer & Co, The Great Le Roy, Al Baker, Dai Vernon, Dagmar & Co, The Five Elgins, Roner, Prince Leon and Gus Wayne, Roy Benson 1941
The Jinx (Issue 129)
743
(reviewer) Philadelphia's Greater Magic Show show review, Elmer Eckam, "Balloons" Bonnert, John Mulholland,Roberta & Marlon, Al Flosso Miaco, Al Baker 1941
The Jinx (Issue 132)
759
Al Baker The Finger Knows - And Tells one of five
Related toAlso published here 1941 9
Al Baker
1941 59
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart Die Gedachte Karte card selected and placed on top of the deck, value of selection is used to add cards on top
Inspired by July 1941
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 3 No. 7)
7
Al Baker Introduction
Also published here 1941 xi
Al Baker A Lesson in Magic three cards, they travel back in second phase
Also published here 1941 1
Al Baker Palm Replacement context of cards across
Also published here 1941 2
Al Baker Undercount from left-hand dealing position into right hand one on top of the next, double push
Also published here 1941 3
Al Baker The Magician at Home thread, on the floor/carpet
Also published here 1941 8
Al Baker Red-Black Transposition envelopes
Also published here 1941 9
Al Baker One Deck Do as I Do
Also published here 1941 12
Al Baker The Torn and Restored Paper Napkin
Also published here 1941 13
Al Baker The Half Card and Cigarette Trick
Also published here 1941 14
Al Baker Cigarette Switch in the hands
Also published here 1941 16
Al Baker The Ambitious Card - Two Novel Methods two phases
Related toAlso published here 1941 17
Alexander Herrmann, Al Baker Herrmann's Vanish of a Fan of Cards pull
Also published here 1941 18
Al Baker "Roughing" It recipe & comments
Also published here 1941 20
Al Baker Outguessing the Spectator thought-of Numbers, two spectator, roughed deck
Also published here 1941 20
Al Baker Improved Card Code for Two Persons verbal and nonverbal
Also published here 1941 22
Al Baker The Walking and Jumping Card thread
Also published here 1941 24
Al Baker The Flapless Envelope Switch "Baker Method"
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1941 26
Al Baker The Knife Dial to find a card in the spread
Related toAlso published here 1941 28
Al Baker Slipping the Cut - Table Method "Baker Improvement"
Draw Shift variation
VariationsAlso published here 1941 29
Al Baker The Swinging Rising Cards "The Baker Method for Club Work"
with hanging houlette
Also published here 1941 31
Al Baker Poker Face short card, cards found as they are riffled before the spectators' eyes
Related toAlso published here 1941 34
Al Baker Miniature Card in Balloon
Also published here 1941 35
Al Baker The Magical Filtration of Four Half Dollars
  • 1. Passage of the First Coin
  • 2. Passage of the Second Coin
  • 3. Passage of the Third Coin
  • 4. Passage of the Fourth Coin
Related toAlso published here 1941 37
Al Baker Baker Steal
Also published here 1941 38
Al Baker The Stack of Quarters
Also published here 1941 40
Al Baker The Rising Coin - Baker Method coin dropped in glass, rises out and drops out, thread
Also published here 1941 42
Al Baker Bending a Half Dollar
Also published here 1941 44
Al Baker A Dinner Table Trick coin through tablecloth
Also published here 1941 45
Al Baker A Knotty Problem into handkerchief held by spectator in which spectator tied a knot
Also published here 1941 45
Al Baker Dollar Bill and Cigarette
Also published here 1941 47
Al Baker Cigarette Switch in-the-hands
Also published here 1941 49
Al Baker The Erectile Dollar Bill lengthwise folded bill moves to stand upright, thread attached to thumb tip
VariationsAlso published here 1941 50
Al Baker The Dollar Bill Switch in envelope
Also published here 1941 52
Al Baker Envelopes and Coin in paper and three envelopes
Related toAlso published here 1941 54
Al Baker The Twentieth Century Silk Trick - Baker Method with dye tube and paper cornucopia
Also published here 1941 56
Al Baker Phantom Tube - Baker Presentation
Also published here 1941 59
Al Baker Spirits At Work thread, unknotting with short knot sequence
Also published here 1941 60
Al Baker A Silk Force colored silks
Also published here 1941 63
Al Baker The Knot that just Won't
VariationsAlso published here 1941 64
Al Baker The Sympathetic Silks "Streamline Version", four silks
Also published here 1941 66
Al Baker The Count counting four silks separately while two are knotted
Also published here 1941 67
Al Baker False Knot for two Silks knotting two silks together
Also published here 1941 69
Al Baker Give a Magician enough Rope and... "A Stage Version of the Popular Cut and Restored Rope Effect"
Also published here 1941 72
Al Baker A Rope Interlude thread, unknotting rope
Also published here 1941 74
Al Baker Cooperative Conjuring with (forcing) dice, between ten and thirty
Also published here 1941 76
Al Baker ACME Mindreading Effect name of card written on paper, impression
Also published here 1941 77
Al Baker Seeing Through Solid Matter numbers written on slate which is wrapped up, assistant can name total and numbers
Also published here 1941 79
Al Baker A Super-Superprediction person names card which magician has transfered to another deck, roughed
Also published here 1941 81
Al Baker Concentration spectator crimps his card without knowing
Also published here 1941 84
Al Baker Al Baker Number Force with cards, waxed or roughed
Also published here 1941 85
Al Baker The Baker Slate Easel for appearing writing
Also published here 1941 87
Al Baker Any Telephone Book Test number adding
Also published here 1941 89
Al Baker The Number and Book Test numbers on billets in changing bag
Also published here 1941 90
Al Baker The Saturday Evening Post Feat using memory, magazine test
  • First Method
  • Second Method
Also published here 1941 92
Al Baker Phenomenal Memory
Also published here 1941 96
Al Baker An Impossible Count spectators cut off packet and put in pocket, performer knows number, memorized deck
Related toAlso published here 1941 98
Al Baker The Celebrity Feat stooge codes celebrity name with playing cards
Also published here 1941 100
Al Baker The Polish Psychic number coded through name over phone
Also published here 1941 101
Al Baker Living and Dead Test Plus with assistent, number total, code
Also published here 1941 102
Al Baker A Miracle of Memory using real memory, about thirteen cards are removed
VariationsAlso published here 1941 104
Al Baker The Pairs Re-Paired - New Baker Method using memory, for credit information see reference
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1941 107
Al Baker Linking Rings Opening starting with eight ring chain, thread and really linked rings
Related toAlso published here 1941 109
Al Baker The Linking Rings "The Baker Opening Routine and Some Novel Moves"
  • The Addition of the Key Ring
  • 1. With the Key Ring, Regular Single Ring, and Small Ring
  • 2. With the Set of Three and a Regular Ring
  • 3. With Two Singles and the Key Ring
  • 4. With Two Single Rings
  • 5. To Apparently Link a Solid Single Ring on a Chain of Three
Also published here 1941 110
Al Baker Thread Links without key, several methods in the routine
Also published here 1941 111
Al Baker The Addition of the Key Ring using jacket
Also published here 1941 113
Al Baker Levitation of a Glass of Liquid clings to silk, thread
Also published here 1941 120
Al Baker The Naomi Goldfish Bowl Production
Also published here 1941 122
Al Baker Ink Filtration - Baker Method from pitcher to glass on table
Also published here 1941 124
Al Baker Welded Flash Paper
Also published here 1941 126
Al Baker The Glass Penetration penetrating a sheet of glass, standard prop with finessed handling
Also published here 1941 127
Al Baker The Flying Match Head
Also published here 1941 129
Al Baker Kiddie Party Slate name of two children appears on slates, preshow, flap slate contruction
Also published here 1941 129
Al Baker The Quick and the Dead "With the Baker Pellet Switch"
living and dead test with reading of dead name, finger tip
Related toAlso published here 1941 132
Al Baker Baker Pellet Switch
Also published here 1941 133
Al Baker The Cut and Restored Necktie using change bag
VariationsAlso published here 1941 134
Franklin M. Chapman, Al Baker Stunner No. 7 list with names, one dead, it is divined by performer
Related toAlso published here 1941 5
Al Baker Al Baker's "Twin Soul" Card Prediction two spectators select cards via counting, see also here
1941/27 229
Al Baker Al Baker's Handkerchief Through the Arm
1941/27 385
Henry Christ The Perfect Card Location setting double back key card, "by no means new", for impromptu method see footnote
Related toVariations 1942 8
Phoenix Jr. (reviewer) The S.A.M. Convention Shows - May 22 and 23, 1942 show with artists like Dell O'Dell, Clayt Rawson, Al Baker and Cardini, later did not his famous act and got a bad review May 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 10)
39
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 July 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 14)
59
George G. Kaplan, Audley Walsh, Al Baker A Clever Card Discovery mathematical, based on Telephone Mystery
1942/27 208
Al Baker, Audley Walsh Telephone Mystery
Variations 1942/27 210
Al Baker Rising Cards from Goblet - Al Baker Method different hook up
1942/27 249
Al Baker Nufind two key cards
1943 33
R. M. Jamison Odds and Ends tips and hints for
  • Clippo
  • Baker's Salt Trick
  • Oriental Restoring Powder
Related to Nov. 1943 23
Ted Heuber, William H. McCaffrey Variations for "Number Please"
  • Ted Heuber (setting a key card over phone)
  • Bill McCaffrey (version of Baker's routine, value of bottom card used to count to a selection)
Inspired by 1943 8
Al Baker Climax shrinking card as climax for last card in Cards To Pocket
Also published here Feb. 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 54)
221
Al Baker One Night idea for dagger chest illusion
Feb. 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 54)
221
Al Baker Al Baker's Best Card Trick two cards, duplicate bank
Feb. 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 54)
222
Al Baker Dear Harold in the "Letter to Harold" tradition from "The Sphinx"
Feb. 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 54)
223
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Al Baker, Carl Rosini, Paul Rosini, Max Sterling, Jay Marshall and some gambling ruses
Apr. 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 58)
239
Cyril Marriott Your Thought three billets, reading billets in hat, secretly opening and closing , method, umbrella move
Related to Sep. 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 68)
276
Paul Fleming (reviewer) Magical Ways and Means by Al Baker 1944 2
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin Now! attributed to Robert-Houdin, three cards selected, three times stop by spectator to find their cards
Related to Jan. 1944 34
Theodore Annemann, Al Baker The Al Baker Three Billet Trick three cards that are selected (one thought-of) and written on a billet are divined, stacked deck
Also published here 1944 19
Theodore Annemann Construction of the Annemann Billet Index also for playing cards
Related to 1944 92
Theodore Annemann The Perfect Club Slate Routine name written up secretly on paper appears on slate
Also published here 1944 175
Theodore Annemann, Al Baker, Dr. Jacob Daley Notaria chosen card and diagram are divined/duplicated, forcing deck, center tear
Also published here 1944 179
Walter Baker, Al Baker Numero! end sum also predicts name of spectator
Also published here 1944 207
Franklin M. Chapman, Al Baker The Quick or the Dead No. 8, list with names, one dead, it is divined by performer
Also published here 1944 15
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Richard Himber, Al Baker, Bill Gresham, Bill Henderson
Sep. 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 91)
371
Al Baker 20th Century Silks
1945/27 344
Al Baker Sympathetic Silks
Variations 1945/27 347
, Al Baker A Remarkable Giant 20th century silks
1945/27 350
Al Baker Slip of Paper Force switch while putting it in envelope
1945/27 383
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Paul Duke, Al Baker, Dell O'Dell, Dr. Belanger, Alan Barnert, Braue, Orson Welles in the show "Around the World"
June 1946
The Phoenix (Issue 108)
436
Frederick Braue The Roundabout on Al Baker, Dapper, Ed Tabor
Mar. 1946
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 3 No. 10)
202
Frederick Braue Roundabout on Jean Hugard, George Kaplan, John Scarne, Nate Leipzig, Nelson Downs, Al Keene, John Crimmins, Audley Walsh, Gerald Kaufman, George Karger, Dai Vernon, S.A.M. Show, Al Baker, Joe Berg, Kellar, Trenis Jones, Abril Lamarque, Frakson, Paul Fleming, Devant and more
July 1946 236
Frederick Braue Roundabout on Milbourne Christopher, Al Flosse, Al Baker, Stuart Robson, Orson Welles, Mahendra, Dean Moore, Dorny, Dante, Scarne, Aril Lamarque and more
Aug. 1946 243
Frederick Braue Roundabout on Charlie Miller, Frakson, Al Baker, Clayton Rawson, Malini and more
Nov. 1946 268
Al Baker, M. Odin, Verweij Meenderink Body Loads adding the key
1946 72
Milbourne Christopher Milbourne Christopher's Column ideas for various tricks
  • Lit cigarette hold on thumb covered with handkerchief
  • idea for Al Baker's addition slate
  • on Lou Tannens shooting wand
  • Milk Pitcher
  • Brainwave Deck
  • gag with flash bill
  • Floating Ball
  • card location
Aug. 1947 341
Al Baker Change for a Dollar five coins from bill
Also published here Aug. 1947 344
Frederick Braue Roundabout with Fred Braue on Al Baker, Sam Margules, Dorny, Dr. Braude, Lloyd Jones, Hen Fetch, J. B. Bobo, Bill Woodfield, L. W. Biebigheiser and more
Oct. 1947 362
Al Baker Prediction Trick gaffed, prediction written on Joker
1948 501
Al Baker Cards Across three, signed, envelopes
1948 502
Al Baker The Peck that Cuts itself thread
1948 504
Al Baker The Three-Billet Test No. 2
Variations 1948 194
George G. Kaplan, Dai Vernon, Al Baker The Game of "Thirty-One" Played with a Die
1948 275
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Al Baker, Frank Garcia, Lou Tannen, Greer Marechal, Roger Barkann, L. Vosburgh Lyons, C. L. Boarde, Roy Benson, Dariel Fitzkee, Milbourne Chrisstopher, Jack Chanin
Apr. 1948
The Phoenix (Issue 148)
596
Al Baker Sugar Cube quickly unwrapping a sugar cube, bar bet
June 1948
The Phoenix (Issue 152)
618
Frederick Braue Roundabout with Fred Braue on Clayton Rawson, Neal Elias, John & Ethel McArdle, Houdini, T. Page Wright, Carl Lohrey, Dr. Hooker, John Mulholland, Al Baker, match lighting ideas, and more
Feb. 1948 393
Jean Hugard Hu-Gardenias on Al Baker
Mar. 1948
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 5 No. 10)
405
Frederick Braue Roundabout with Fred Braue on Al Baker, Walter Gibson, Paul Le Paul, Frakson, Jack Merlin, Joe Karson and more
Apr. 1948
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 5 No. 11)
411
Dr. Stanley Jaks Pinned ripped page from magazine is pinned, word is divined, see p. 762 for ideas by Al Baker
Related toAlso published here Sep. 1949
The Phoenix (Issue 185)
739
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Martin Gardner, Erdnase, Al Baker, The Great Jasper, Clayton Rawson
Nov. 1949
The Phoenix (Issue 190)
762
Frederick Braue Roundabout with Fred Braue on John Scarne, Paul Curry, Al Baker, Bruce Elliott, Think-a-Cards, Gerald Kosky, Stuart Cramer, Milbourne Christopher and more
May 1949
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 12)
541
Magicana anecdote by Al Baker
Aug. 1949 570
Martin Gardner, Jay Marshall Stunts with Paper
  • Paper Bunnies (by Jay Marshall, based on Al Baker's Ring Around Rosie)
  • Paper Movies
  • Cardboard Snapper
Inspired by Sep. 1949 585
Frank Joglar Backstage on Al Baker, Lee Noble, Norman Jensen, Zovello, Jay Marshall, Vic Perry, Devano, Russ Swann
  • Intimately Speaking
  • Puzzle Deparment
  • TV Topics
  • Seen and Overheard
  • In Print
  • More in Print
  • Memory Book
  • Tricks of the Trade
Nov. 1949 602
John J. Crimmins Jr. (reviewer) How to Perform Mental Magic by Al Baker Dec. 1949 614
Al Baker Two Souls With But a Single Thought coincidence & prediction, two cards
Also published here 1949 24
Al Baker Foreword
Also published here 1949 ix
Al Baker Chapter 1: First Lesson in Mind Reading Technique intro on billet switches
Also published here 1949 1
Al Baker The Baker Switch
  • I. The Technique
  • II. The Timing
  • III. The Application
VariationsAlso published here 1949 1
Al Baker Bill-Epathy using Baker Billet Switch
Also published here 1949 6
Al Baker Chapter 2: New Light on the Center Tear introductory comments
Related toAlso published here 1949 10
Al Baker The New Baker Method reading immediately after tearing
Also published here 1949 12
Al Baker Co-Incidentally spectator writes the same name as performer did earlier, centre tear
Also published here 1949 18
Al Baker A Telemirakel ten cards from shuffled deck tabled in a row, random person called (really assistant) who names four cards, the cards corresponding with the last four digites of the phone number in the ten-card row are those cards
Also published here 1949 21
Al Baker Packet Addition with Book during handling of phone book
Also published here 1949 23
Al Baker Over the Phone medium names free selection, code
Also published here 1949 26
Al Baker Telephony card is forced
Also published here 1949 30
Al Baker No-Nomonics linking initals with objects
Also published here 1949 32
Al Baker Baker's Eight-Card Trick any eight cards taken and one chosen, other seven called out to assistant who then names selection, effect "Study in Stud" related but not the method
Also published here 1949 34
Al Baker Thought Transmission performer makes spectator write certain numbers, pencil reading, nail writer on first finger tip
Also published here 1949 37
Al Baker Al Baker's Envelope Switch window envelopes, Q&A routine application
VariationsAlso published here 1949 40
Al Baker Envelope as an Accessory slit, steal
Also published here 1949 46
Al Baker Chicken-Feed amount of change in spectator's pocket, pocket writing, spiked billet
Related toAlso published here 1949 50
Al Baker Parlor Telepathy code by placement on table
Related toAlso published here 1949 53
Al Baker Impossible! "An Experiment in Clairvoyance"
assistant with cloth bag over the head on a chair, performer names selected cards via ventriloquism
Related toAlso published here 1949 57
Al Baker Pellet Reading "Al Baker Method"
contents of three slips are divined, with secret opening and reading method, umbrella move
Also published here 1949 59
Al Baker "Out of the Air" Baker notebook
Also published here 1949 65
Al Baker The Baker Switch - No. 2
Also published here 1949 72
Al Baker Secret Reading of Billets with a notepad
Also published here 1949 76
Al Baker Pseudo-Fortune Telling Seance for "can you tell fortunes?"-situations
  • The Seance
Also published here 1949 80
Al Baker The Dead Man's Name with envelopes, one paper fits more loosely than others
Also published here 1949 85
Al Baker Mental Card Tricks chapter intro
Also published here 1949 88
Al Baker The Pulse of the People three cards
Also published here 1949 90
Al Baker The Stethoscope using stooge and signal
Also published here 1949 93
Al Baker Telepathy For Two two cards appear at chosen numbers from one to ten, forcing banks
Also published here 1949 97
Al Baker Unconscious Clairvoyance ungaffed cards
Also published here 1949 100
Al Baker The Magic Bell ghost bell, answering to questions
Also published here 1949 104
Al Baker, Adrian Plate Appendix: Mnemonics As Applied To Conjuring numbers, cards, theory
Related to
  • Magician's Tricks by Hatton & Plate
Also published here
1949 107
Al Baker Cartomancy, or The Meaning of the Cards in a Deck
Also published here 1949 113
Al Baker Recapitulation of Al Baker's Rules for Effective Mental Magic nine rules
Also published here 1949 116
Robert "Bob" J. Gunther Another Here, There and Everywhere using Baker's Cherchez la Femme stand
Inspired by 1950
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1950)
5
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Willard Smith, Jack LeDair, Max Katz, Sid Lorraine, Maurice Fogel, Audley Walsh, Frances Ireland, Al Baker
Oct. 1950
The Phoenix (Issue 214)
854
Al Baker, Dr. Ben B. Braude You Do as I Do (Using one pack of cards) No. 14, Do As I Do, performer picks out spectator's card, asks spectator to take out similar card and is able to divine it
Variations 1950 29
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on James G. Thompson Jr., Dai Vernon, Hugard's Magic Monthly, Al Baker, Harry Blackstone, Gali Gali, Washington Irving Bishop
May 1951
The Phoenix (Issue 229)
917
Al Baker Bar Trick Fooler finesse, coloring substance hanging from a thread
Also published here June 1951
The Phoenix (Issue 230)
921
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Al Baker's dead, Leslie Barrie, Willard Smith, Bill Simon, Herman Hansen
Nov. 1951
The Phoenix (Issue 242)
969
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Don Castello, Gen Grant, Audley Walsh, Martin Gardner, Frank Joglar, Fred Keating, Jay Marshall, Al Baker, Norman Jensen, Lou Tannen
Dec. 1951
The Phoenix (Issue 245)
978
Al Baker Hair Secrets
  • What to use
  • Where to get it
  • Color
  • Length
  • How to keep it
  • Substitutes for hair
  • Nylon thread
  • Wax, magician's wax
Also published here 1951 9
Al Baker The Baker General Utility Hook-up
VariationsAlso published here 1951 11
Al Baker The Double-Ended Hook-up
Also published here 1951 12
Al Baker, Dr. Jacob Daley The Double-Breasted Hook-up
Also published here 1951 12
Al Baker The Balancing Card card stands upright on performer's palm, thread
Also published here 1951 13
Al Baker The Card from the Hat thread
Also published here 1951 14
Al Baker The Deck that Cuts Itself
Also published here 1951 16
Al Baker The Simplex Rising Cards thread
Also published here 1951 18
Al Baker The Rising Ring thread, wand
Also published here 1951 20
Al Baker The Grandfather Clock Trick large clock pendulum moves, thread
Also published here 1951 21
Al Baker Miscellaneous Hair Tricks
  • cup moves on the table
  • animated bill
  • remote haunted deck
  • rising coin/card from glass
  • throwing a loose deck of cards to a spectator over some distance
  • balancing cane/umbrella
Also published here 1951 22
Al Baker The Al Baker Arabian Beads pearls taken from thread re-thread by themselves
VariationsAlso published here 1951 25
Al Baker The Al Baker Arabian Beads: Repeat Method
Inspired byAlso published here 1951 28
Al Baker Floating Glass of Milk thread
Also published here 1951 29
Al Baker The Hindu Thread Trick
Related toAlso published here 1951 31
Al Baker Coin Production threaded stack of coins
Also published here 1951 35
Al Baker The Instantaneous Visible Restoration pull
Related toAlso published here 1951 36
Al Baker The Al Baker Lightning Pull
VariationsAlso published here 1951 36
Al Baker Ring and Tape Penetration
Also published here 1951 39
Al Baker Variation on Stretching a Rope
Also published here 1951 40
Al Baker The Jet-Propelled Card unsigned but fair selection vanishes, to nest of envelopes
Also published here 1951 42
Al Baker Double Impossibility cards are fairly chosen, leave deck, appear in performers hand
Also published here 1951 47
Al Baker Color Flight envelopes, paired double cards
Also published here 1951 49
Al Baker The Spectator Does The Trick four cards chosen from one deck by four spectators, another spectator cuts a second deck and the four cards at that spot match selections
Also published here 1951 51
Al Baker Double-Ended Case to add cards to deck
Also published here 1951 51
Clayton Rawson The Impossible Force spectator cuts, bottom pile secretly turned over
Related toAlso published here 1951 53
Al Baker The Baker "Readers" Angel-Back brand
Also published here 1951 55
Al Baker Mental Discernment marked
Also published here 1951 56
Al Baker The Lie Detector marked
Also published here 1951 57
Al Baker Long-Distance Telepathy marked
Also published here 1951 57
Al Baker The Clairvoyant Spectator marked
Also published here 1951 57
Al Baker How to Force a Card finesse, four cards under break
Also published here 1951 58
Al Baker The Card between Glass Plates "Baker Improvement"
Also published here 1951 58
Al Baker Jumbo Switch stand prop
Also published here 1951 59
Al Baker Giant Gambling royal flush
Also published here 1951 61
Al Baker Double Thought two spectators open deck in another room to choose a card, performer divines them, accordion-connected triples
Also published here 1951 62
Al Baker One-Man Billet Reading
Also published here 1951 64
Al Baker The Baker Billet Switch
Also published here 1951 64
Al Baker Center Tear Tip
Also published here 1951 66
Al Baker Mental Masterpiece performer duplicates words written by spectator
Also published here 1951 67
Al Baker The Telepathic Miracle "A Two-Person Mental Act"
design or word duplication by medium
Also published here 1951 69
Al Baker The Baker Bill Tear impromptu
Also published here 1951 75
Al Baker The Stack of Quarters "New Method"
Also published here 1951 77
Al Baker The Vanishing Quarter using ring and two playing cards and shell
Also published here 1951 80
Al Baker Fun with the Money-Making Machine ideas for this prop
Also published here 1951 81
Al Baker Dime and Penny Gag for magicians only
Also published here 1951 82
Al Baker The Bill in the Borrowed Lemon gaffed knife
Also published here 1951 83
Al Baker The Baker Spirit Photo "freely" chosen person appears on paper as photograph
Also published here 1951 85
Al Baker The Force Deck to force a number
Also published here 1951 88
Al Baker Magnetisn't with animation
Also published here 1951 90
Al Baker The Baker Chewing Gum Trick card to borrowed chewing gum
Related toAlso published here 1951 91
Al Baker Finesse with the Dye Tube great steal for gimmick
Also published here 1951 95
Al Baker The Vanishing Glass of Water
Also published here 1951 99
Al Baker Salt Flight from hand to container
Related toAlso published here 1951 101
Al Baker Silk Transposition two glasses with silks
Related to 1951 102
Al Baker Sugar Cube Vanish
Also published here 1951 103
Al Baker Goldfish Production sixth finger
Also published here 1951 104
Al Baker Bar Trick Fooler finesse, coloring substance hanging from a thread
Also published here 1951 107
Al Baker Egg Finale gag with egg and glass
Also published here 1951 108
Al Baker Rabbit Production from gathered-up paper coils
Also published here 1951 108
Al Baker The Obedient Snake snake basket version
Also published here 1951 110
Al Baker The Short Highball visible enlargment
Also published here 1951 110
Al Baker, Frank Garcia The Magical Filtration of Four Half Dollars four coins through the table, one by one, with a variation on the last coin by Frank Garcia
Related toVariations 1952 193
Al Baker, Dai Vernon Al 'n Dai Again stranger card, sandwiched, see p. 1061 for more details
Related to Sep. 1952
The Phoenix (Issue 263)
1050
Theodore Annemann Mentalex? three selected cards are found by spectators stopping at the right card
Related to 1952 4
Oscar "Oscarelli" Rey Magisches Allerlei on Jules D'Hotel, Bouchaert, Leon Maguire, Al Baker, John C. Green, Ellis Stanyon, Sphinx, Genii, Vermeyden
1952
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 13 No. 1)
2
Al Baker Al Baker's Rice Bowls
Related to 1953 39
Dr. Stanley Jaks Al Bakers Prophecy one out of eight cards is chosen, value leads to selection, everything was predicted
1954
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 15 No. 2)
170
Roy Benson Al Baker Anecdote
1955
The New Phoenix (Issue 327)
117
Amazing James Randi Deliver the Billets getting billets with envelope switch, window envelope, Q&A routine application
Inspired by Aug. 1955
Ibidem (Issue 2)
13
Lu Brent A Unique Location
Inspired by
  • "Telephone Card Trick" (Al Baker, Audley Walsh)
Related to
1956 12
Al Baker Al Baker's Version Predict sum of numbers
1956 160
Predicting a Sum Magician correctly predicts sum of numbers generated by spectator and magician
Variations 1956 170
Al Baker Al Baker's Numero Convert the final sum into a word, which becomes the name of the spectator
Inspired by 1956 172
Al Baker Short Piece in Thumb Tip
1956 35
John A. M. Howie No Latin Needed
Inspired by June 1957
Ibidem (Issue 10)
16
Al Baker No. 8. Living and Dead.
Related to 1958 19
Tony Corinda, Al Baker The Application of the Mnemonic Number Code
  • (1) for mental arithmetic
  • (2) for coding at the phone (Al Baker)
  • (3) two person act, arithmetic
  • (4) Corinda's "Fourteenth Book Test", coding with medium
Related to 1958 78
Tony Corinda, Patrick Page, Al Baker (6) The Billet Index Patrick Page's Q.5. Pocket Index for billets
Related to 1958 92
Milton Kort Gambling Expose long routine, including memory, poker face, false dealing demo, stacking demo, in the end cards vanish under a handkerchief except four aces
Related to May 1958
The Cardiste (Issue 8)
3
Al Baker The Pack that Cuts Itself
1959 30
Dai Vernon, Al Baker The Walking and Jumping Card card "walks" out of a hat and jumps out of it
1959 33
Charlie Miller How to Haunt a Pack described by Robert Parrish
  • impromptu method
  • method with slick cards
  • tip for Al Baker method
1959
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1959)
46
Tony Corinda (18) References on Technique with Billets in Other Steps
Related to 1959 187
Tony Corinda (11) Graph or Chart Code
Related to 1959 261
Tony Corinda Reference to Mediumistic Effect in Other Steps
Related to 1959 278
Malcolm Davison Handling Billets umbrella move
Related to 1960 98
Al Baker Card from Hat thread
1961 53
Al Baker Al Baker's Apple Trick effect description
1961 66
North Bigbee, Al Baker Ball and Glass
Inspired by Nov. 1962
The New Phoenix (Issue 374)
325
Al Baker Al Bakers Nummer-Force with number cards
Also published here 1962 16
Dr. William Weyeneth Nicht wahr? spectator crimps his card without knowing
Also published here 1964
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 25 No. 1&2)
19
Al Baker The Great Purse Game two silver coins put in purse change to copper, originally a con game
Related toVariations 1966 395
Al Baker Silk Divination spectator touches silk while performer is out of the room, performer knows which one, assistant
May 1966 34
Al Baker Purse Vanish original described in the sphinx
1967 110
Burling Hull on Dunninger's Slate Trick and Al Baker's improvement
June 1967 105
Alan Brown, Al Baker The Borgia Glass two balls in glass penetrate silk around glass
Inspired byRelated to
  • p. 133 for suggestion by David Harrell
Sep. 1967 119
Gene Anderson Historical Methods Description of different methods (Al Baker, Slydini, Page, Elmsley, Grant, Neil Foster)
1968 135
Albert Goshman Coins Thru the Table one by one, four coins
Also published here 1968 2
Alton Sharpe Mirabile Dictu any named red card is predicted on back of a black card, cards written on all black cards as index
Inspired by 1969 81
Stuart P. Cramer Implanted Thought chosen ESP card predicted on billet, using index on cards
Related to 1969 4
Al Baker Cups & Balls routine via John Braun, H. Adrian Smith, Lou Tannen
eight phases
Winter 1970
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 6 No. 4th Folio)
381
Chris Gosselin, Al Baker Untouched by Yooman 'ands
Related to 1971 65
Al Baker Spirit Sum flap slate
July 1971 430
Al Baker Ambitious Card phase from Daley Notebooks, then sequence using Ace, Two and Three
VariationsAlso published here Dec. 1971 474
Al Baker Coins & Purse three coins removed from purse vanish, the reappear in two pockets and underneath purse, then purse with coins vanishes
Dec. 1971 475
Roy Walton Ambitious 1-2-3-4 ambitious sequence with Ace through Four, one of them changes to selection, see p. 608 for comment by Walton, see p. 640 for get-into by Robin Robertson
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here Sep. 1972 559
Al Baker The Finger Knows - And Tells one of five
Also published here 1972 30
Al Baker, Audley Walsh Number Please two methods
Also published here 1972 31
Al Baker Twin Souls two cards
Also published here 1972 83
Al Baker Nufind two key cards
Also published here 1972 110
Variation For Horowitz's Shuffle Mental Trick No. 437, might be a way to get into an "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" distribution of the possible cards
Related to 1972 125
Al And Nate Box No. 438, coins through hand using coin box, folding coin for unclear effect
Related to 1972 126
Al Baker Al Baka - Effect With Nikola Deck No. 458, very brief
Also published here 1972 129
Ambitious Card Move No. 509, a bit unclear
Related to 1972 142
Sam Leo Horowitz Horowitz's Crimp Location No. 601, card next to selection is crimped on return
Related to 1972 167
Sam Leo Horowitz Horowitz's Double Backer Effect No. 607, setting double backer as key card, out-of-hand selection procedure, shown by Al Baker
Related to 1972 169
Al Baker Baker's Moves: 1) For key ring removal in false chain of three No. 621-1
1972 173
Al Baker Baker's Moves: 2) For Ambitious Card No. 621-2, sequence with double lift and loosing top two cards
Also published here 1972 173
Al Baker Al Baker's Bottom Deal Color Flight No. 622, five cards taken from blue-backed deck, and five from re-backed deck, leader cards exchanged and rest follows, odd-backed, bottom deals with instant turnover
1972 173
Al Baker Al Baker's Initially, Envelope In Cut Envelope Switch No. 623
Related to 1972 174
Al Baker Al Baker Cup Cup Ball Move No. 624, using five balls, no details
1972 174
Al Baker Al Baker's Moist Paper Thumb Tip Method No. 625, wet tissue paper is dried in hand, no details
Related to 1972 174
Al Baker Al Baker's Thumb Tip With Wire For Saltrlx No. 626, note without content
1972 174
Al Baker Al Baker's Nikola Miracle No. 627, number free, card forced from a second deck
Also published here 1972 174
Al Baker Al Baker's Nikola Gag No. 628, knowing how many cards are cut off after fair cuts
Related to 1972 175
Al Baker Al Baker Finger Tip Thread Knife Magnetism Trick No. 629, to find a card in the spread, brief
Also published here 1972 175
Al Baker Al Baker's - Fake Half Dollar Fold In Envelope Steal No. 630, note without content
Related to 1972 175
Al Baker Al Baker's Indicator Sucker Gag No. 631, card changes in spectator's hand, stabbing presentation, same as Card in Hand
Related to 1972 175
Al Baker Al Baker Number Please and Al Baker Is Good No. 632, unclear
Related to 1972 175
Al Baker Al Baker Glide Wrinkle No. 633-1, first finger pushed card back as hand is turned
1972 175
Al Baker 2) No. 633-2, some location idea, cryptic
Related to 1972 175
Al Baker 3) For Horowitz "Shuffle Mental Trick" No. 633-3, cryptic, placement of cards near the face
Related to 1972 176
Al Baker Al Baker's Ring Move With Thread No. 634
Related to 1972 176
Al Baker Al Baker's Thread Trick No. 635
Related to 1972 176
Al Baker Al Baker's Thread Trick No. 635, duplicate number and title, on the preparation of the thread
Related to 1972 176
Al Baker Al Baker's Billet Initial Mindreading Trick No. 636, three cards predicted on billets
1972 176
Al Baker Al Baker's Finger Tip Dead Name Test No. 637, billets put in envelope, some actually in finger tip
1972 177
Al Baker Al Baker's Billet Wrinkle No. 638
1972 177
Al Baker Al Baker's Cut And Restored Rope Mystery No. 639, pull
Related to 1972 177
Al Baker Al Baker's Card Memory No. 640, using real memory, thirteen cards are removed
Also published here 1972 178
Al Baker Al Baker's Tips: 1) No. 641-1, tape to stick torn center on pad
1972 178
Al Baker Al Berk's Tips: 2) No. 641-2, purse vanishes, pull attached to coin
Related to 1972 178
Al Baker Baker Steal
1973 64
Al Baker One-Way Reversal out of hands
Related to Nov. 1973 684
Roy Walton The Ambitious Ghost ambitious sequence with Ace through Four, one of them changes to selection
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here 1973 26
Charlie Miller, Al Baker Destiny's Date! five dimes, one is chosen and date predicted on business card
1974
Magick (Issue 92)
459
Ronald Zollweg Bottoms Out bottom of glass drops out and is restored, inspired by Al Baker story
Related toVariations 1975 146
Faucett Ross The Show Story about Al Baker pretending to be Dai Vernon
1975 164
Al Baker, Robert Gysel The Baker-Gysel Flap
July 1975 982
Al Baker Al Baker's Version stabbing force
1975 87
Edward Marlo, Al Baker Vocalepathy
Inspired by 1976
Early Marlo (Issue Oddity & Other Miracles)
105
Harvey Rosenthal Photographic Metamorphosis paper on coin transforms into picture of selected card
Related to 1976 8
Al Baker The Forces Within three selected cards are divined, Al Baker's Card Case, gaffed case to force cards
1976 24
Robert Gysel, Al Baker The Gysel-Baker Flap
Also published here
  • in "The Sphinx" Vol. 22 #10, 1923
1976 21
The Controlled Cut No. 65, spectator cuts and this value is used to count down to selection, Ace through King of Hearts set-up, Al Baker credit given
Related to 1976 98
Karrell Fox, Roy Kissell Fox's "Rope-Tie" cut and restored necktie, accidentally cut during rope cutting
Inspired by 1976 123
Al Baker Ein Mentaleffekt von Al Baker with assistent, code
Also published here 1976
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 37 No. 1)
18
Al Baker In der Tasche des Zuschauers forcing deck, two deck switches
Also published here 1976
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 37 No. 1)
20
Al Baker Une expérience de mentalisme de Al Baker with assistent, code
Also published here 1976
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 37 No. 3)
86
Al Baker Dans la poche du spectateur forcing deck, two deck switches
Also published here 1976
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 37 No. 3)
87
Paul Curry Circle of Fire chosen card appears on piece of paper between two coins, shell
Inspired byRelated toVariationsAlso published here 1977 16
Karl Fulves, Al Baker The Yogi Knows card and its position remembered, spelling a phrase to locate it
1977 65
Roy Johnson Flawless envelope switch with stack
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here 1977 24
Al Mann, Al Baker Al Baker's Masterwork on Baker's improvements
Related to 1978 6
Al Baker The Umbrella Move
Related to 1978 13
Al Baker Lesson performer know which object is taken, bloodless hand
Also published here 1978 1071
Paul Fleming (reviewer) Mental Magic by Al Baker (written by Jean Hugard) 1979 155
Al Baker Umbrella Move uncredited
1979 147
The Deck that Cuts Itself - Al Baker strange Al Baker credit
Related to 1979 23
Al Baker Impression on Surface powder on bottom of writing surface and shiny table
Apr. 1979
Intermagic (Vol. 6 No. 1)
25
Al Baker Die verschwundenen Münzen coins vanish in purse
Aug. 1979
Intermagic (Vol. 6 No. 2)
64
Andrew Galloway Do As Al Baker Did
1980 28
Ken De Courcy The Vanishing Pack with handkerchief, unload in pocket, as ending to "The World's Fastest Card Trick"
Inspired by 1980 11
Al Baker, Geoffrey Latta Al Baker Purse False Load
1981 139
Thomas Alan Waters Palmystic muscle reading technique, hidden as palmistry
Related to 1981
Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Omnimancy)
110
Thomas Alan Waters Center-Tear analysis and handling
Related to 1981
Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Scrypt)
166
Al Baker Baker Steal
1982 177
Philip T. Goldstein, Dai Vernon Astronomen Mutus Nomen with twelve astrological signs
Related to 1982 8
R. F. Provan, Al Baker The Million Dollar Gimmick variation on Baker's Note Book, carbon
Related to
  • C. L. Boarde "Mainly Mental Vol. II" p. 121
1982 9
Al Baker, Paul Fox Cigarette Vanish handling with thumb tip
1983
Arcane (Issue 9)
104
Thomas Alan Waters SideSidAl combination of Lorraine's and Baker's book tests
Related to 1983
Mind, Myth & Magick (Issue Mindscript 1: The Book Test)
376
Al Baker Color Flight brief
1983 54
Al Baker Super-Superprediction person names card which magician has transfered to another deck, roughed, 1936
Also published here 1983 63
Al Baker Effects 1, 2, 3 invisible deck, named card is reversed by performer
1983 64
Al Baker Roughing It comments
Also published here 1983 79
Al Baker Number Force with cards, waxed or roughed
1983 80
Al Baker Al Baker's Two Person Presentation alone or with medium
Also published here 1983 22
Al Baker Die unzerstörbare Perlenkette pearls taken from thread rethread by themselves
  • Die Wiederholung
Also published here Aug. 1983
Intermagic (Vol. 10 No. 2)
72
Al Baker Dreifaches Tuchfärben dye tube
Aug. 1983
Intermagic (Vol. 10 No. 2)
77
Frederick Braue Baker's Impossible Discovery - FB Improvement spectator locates other spectator's card in pocket under fair conditions (1936)
Inspired by 1985 13
Frederick Braue Improved Routine - Al Baker T&R Newspaper
Inspired by 1985 18
Albert Goshman, Al Baker Coins Thru Table credit information, four coins penetrate a table.
Also published here 1985 59
Al Baker The Lesson No. 51, spectator takes one of two things from high shelf, performer knows which one, color goes out of arm that is hold high
1985 90
Al Baker The Out-Jog Change
Related to 1985/87 48
Eugene Burger Catching a Spook lengthwise folded bill moves to stand upright, thread attached to thumb and second finger
Inspired by 1986 152
Al Baker Baker Steal
1987 81
Al Baker, Eugene Burger The Haunted Pack "added perfomance touches and strategies"
1987 102
Karl Fulves, Al Baker Haunted thread
1987 40
Al Baker Al Baker's Idea coin dropped in purse, both vanish
Also published here 1987 51
Dai Vernon Classic Force Finesse force card starts fifth below break
Related toAlso published here 1988 8
Juan Tamariz, Topper Martin, Al Baker A Mental Effect as an Example
1988 40
Al Baker, Daryl Martinez Break Through magical gag in which bottom of glass is broken out and restored, additional credits at the end
Related to 1988 18
Al Baker Eine Al-Baker Idee coin dropped in purse, both vanish
Also published here Dec. 1988
Intermagic (Vol. 14 No. 2)
63
Gary Kurtz Code of Silence
Related toAlso published here 1989 25
T. Page Wright An Instant Cut at Any Number spectator cuts off cards and counts them, replaces them, then performer cuts off same number
Related to 1991 165
Bob Farmer Jack To The Future card thought of, then card selected, written on the thought-of card is the selected card
Inspired by Oct. 1991
Magic (Vol. 1 No. 2)
44
Al Baker Al Baker Steal
1992 102