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T. Nelson Downs, Unknown Die Drehmünze No. 1, coin pivot, back palm, specialty of Downs, also with two sharp points or wire to help in pivot Der Amateurzauberer 1
H. F. C. Suhr T. Nelson Downs short biography Der Amateurzauberer 2
T. Nelson Downs Die Wanderung durch das Knie coin through knee, using back palm Der Amateurzauberer 5
T. Nelson Downs Das Durchdringen des Hutbodens coin through hat Der Amateurzauberer 6
T. Nelson Downs Die an den Fingerspitzen erscheinenden Geldstücke No. 3, one-handed production of several coins one by one in a fan from classic palm Der Amateurzauberer 9
T. Nelson Downs The Back and Front Palm T. Nelson Downs' Continuous Method The Modern Conjurer 144
T. Nelson Downs To Pass Ten Coins Held in Left Hand into a Glass Held in Right Hand at Arm's Length The Modern Conjurer 172
T. Nelson Downs Multiple Coin Click Pass The Modern Conjurer 173
T. Nelson Downs The Flying Handkerchiefs origin not clear, silk in glass bottle visible vanishes and reappears in another bottleAlso published here
  • "Magic and its Professors" (Henry Ridgely Evans)
 Later Magic 341
T. Nelson Downs Second Method of "The Sympathetic Coins", extra coin The Art of Magic 254
T. Nelson Downs The Free and Unlimited Coinage of Silver coin travels under named object on table, then under all objects coin is foundRelated to The Art of Magic 262
T. Nelson Downs The Downs Coin Wand The Art of Magic 273
T. Nelson Downs The Downs Fan fan done in one hand, other hand shown empty, then second fan produced in this hand The Art of Magic 27
T. Nelson Downs The Latest Egg, Handkerchief and Glass Trick egg in tumbler changes place with silk in hand The Art of Magic 300
T. Nelson Downs The Flying Cards (Second Method) The Art of Magic 107
T. Nelson Downs The Four-Ball Trick, with Novel Passes four solid balls The Art of Magic 305
T. Nelson Downs Ring Holdout torn & restored cigarette paper idea The Art of Magic 324
T. Nelson Downs The Mysterious Card "one of Mr. Downs' specialties", card thought of in spread of one fifth The Art of Magic 126
Unknown Another Poker Trick three aces are controlled then riffle stacked for four playersRelated to The Art of Magic 130
John Northern Hilliard, T. Nelson Downs Don'ts tips The Art of Magic 347
T. Nelson Downs Chosen Card Appears in Any Part of the Deck "Card Tricks based on a New and Original System of Locating a Chosen Card"
selection to any small number, with outs and alternative strategies		 The Art of Magic 142
T. Nelson Downs Spectator's Peek as done by Downs The Art of Magic 143
T. Nelson Downs Side Steal directly to top The Art of Magic 144
T. Nelson Downs Bottom Count riffled off thumb The Art of Magic 145
T. Nelson Downs Second Method deck crimp/bridge at peeked at card The Art of Magic 150
T. Nelson Downs Third Method spectator peeks in his own hands, risky bridge, also with rubber banded deck The Art of Magic 150
T. Nelson Downs Fourth Method spectator peeks at a card in his own hands and it is found, estimation and stack, "the bungling and unobserving performer will meet his Waterloo in this experiment" The Art of Magic 152
T. Nelson Downs Fifth Method card to any number, with placement strategy to twenty-sixth The Art of Magic 154
T. Nelson Downs Sixth Method featuring a new locator card, alternative for long card with portion sticking out in middle of one end The Art of Magic 155
T. Nelson Downs The Ubiquitous Cards (Second Method) two peeked-at cards appear when spectator calls stop The Art of Magic 162
T. Nelson Downs One-Handed Second Deal Related to The Art of Magic 163
David Devant, T. Nelson Downs The Magician's Will Power with one-way deck improvement by Downs The Art of Magic 176
T. Nelson Downs The Tattling of Toto six selections, penny in glass jumps up and down to communicate with performerInspired by
  • French magazine "The Illusioniste"
 The Art of Magic 184
T. Nelson Downs A Series of Fancy Flourishes Arm Spread & Throw combination The Art of Magic 35
T. Nelson Downs Everywhere and Nowhere - New Method The Art of Magic 63
T. Nelson Downs The General Card several spectators choose a card, they are all the same, whole deck is shown the same, then different again The Art of Magic 71
T. Nelson Downs Downs Change Variations The Art of Magic 73
T. Nelson Downs, John Northern Hilliard Introductory three branches of magic, on the state of magic The Art of Magic 11
T. Nelson Downs Flourishes and Fancy Sleights with Cards comments and what cards to use
- The Cards		 The Art of Magic 17
T. Nelson Downs The Wrist Palm The Art of Magic 245
T. Nelson Downs Latest Method for the "Miser's Dream" Downs Palm Production The Art of Magic 249
T. Nelson Downs Downs Palm The Art of Magic 250
T. Nelson Downs Introduction Thirty Card Mysteries 3
T. Nelson Downs Transposition Extraordinary No. 2, deck separated in red and black, card from red half put in black half, it is predicted and transposes with another red card, halves rubber banded Ten New Sleight of Hand Card Tricks 5
T. Nelson Downs The Downs' Hinge Shift actually apparently just a cut, also as slip cut with left thumb and with rubber banded deck Ten New Sleight of Hand Card Tricks 8
Charles T. Jordan, T. Nelson Downs The Spelling Fool! No. 9, spelling to suits and through values Ten New Sleight of Hand Card Tricks 19
T. Nelson Downs Introduction The Strange Inventions of Doctor Ervin 7
Tommy Tucker The Card Miracle - Certain: 1. Tucker's Version spectator cuts anywhere and remembers bottom card, estimation, card is on top or in pocket in this handlingRelated to Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 37
T. Nelson Downs 3. The Nelson Downs Original. spectator cuts anywhere and remembers bottom card, estimation, card is on top or in pocket in this handlingRelated to Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 38
T. Nelson Downs "The T. Nelson Downs Speller" three cards, stacked in three banks Greater Magic 311
T. Nelson Downs Mysterious Date Changing date increases by number thought of Greater Magic 703
T. Nelson Downs Reading the Dates of Coins with Finger Tips Greater Magic 703
T. Nelson Downs A Neat Coin Fold Greater Magic 704
T. Nelson Downs The Downs Coin Star on tips of fingers Greater Magic 719
T. Nelson Downs, Newton Hall Downs Change Variation More Card Manipulations (Issue 2) 40
T. Nelson Downs Money Sense cards divined and four selected cards represent year of coin The Jinx 51-100 (Issue 87) 551
T. Nelson Downs Out for Classic Force The Jinx 51-100 (Issue 87) 551
Unknown An Eggs-traordinary Eggs-planation fake explanation, ends with real eggVariations Tarbell Course in Magic - Volume 1 394
T. Nelson Downs Fallacy of Vision "Two Impromptus By T. Nelson Downs", gaff on coin to clip coin to finger Select Secrets 29
T. Nelson Downs Matchless Digits three matches disappear and reappear in bare hands Select Secrets 30
T. Nelson Downs Marvello transposition with extremely strange procedure, mathematical Tarbell Course in Magic - Volume 2 223
George Starke Downs Change Improved Inspired by Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 3, No. 3) 144
T. Nelson Downs The Side Steal Palm Card Control 56
T. Nelson Downs Downs Change Marlo In Spades 32
T. Nelson Downs Five Coin Transfer Pass false transfer Principles and Deceptions 72
T. Nelson Downs The Eureka Vanish "A useful Sleight for Vanishing Five Coins in Succession at the Fingertips" Principles and Deceptions 107
Frederick Braue, T. Nelson Downs Downs Change Application Show Stoppers with Cards 2
T. Nelson Downs Downs' Palm two methods to produce single coins from stack in Downs palm Principles and Deceptions 61
T. Nelson Downs, Arthur H. Buckley The "Downs' Click Pass" Viewed from a New Angle (Improved) Principles and Deceptions 68
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Cy Endfield, Jay Marshall, Roy Benson, Dr. Braude, Max Katz, Martin Gardner, Audley Walsh, Hen Fetsch, Cardini, Charlie Miller, Dai Vernon, T. Nelson Downs The Phoenix 201 - 250 (Issue 235) 941
T. Nelson Downs The Downs Palm Modern Coin Magic 3
J. B. Bobo, T. Nelson Downs The Back Thumb Palm three methods to transfer the coin into the palm (Downs, Bobo, Bobo) Modern Coin Magic 8
T. Nelson Downs T. Nelson Downs' Original Version with a hat, includes different palming techniques Modern Coin Magic 308
T. Nelson Downs Downs' New "Click" Pass Modern Coin Magic 318
T. Nelson Downs Downs' New Fan Pass Variations Modern Coin Magic 320
Unknown The Downs' Eureka Pass Related to Modern Coin Magic 320
T. Nelson Downs To Palm and Make the Pass with Forty Coins Modern Coin Magic 321
Stanley Collins T. Nelson Downs some comments Modern Coin Magic 332
T. Nelson Downs The Downs Coin Star with wax on one coin Modern Coin Magic 202
T. Nelson Downs Downs Eureka Pass four coins vanish and appear one by one, transfer of back palmed coins Modern Coin Magic 205
Unknown The Free and Ultimate Coinage of Silver coin is vanished, spectator selects object on the table under it is the coin. Then under all the objects is a coinRelated to Modern Coin Magic 213
T. Nelson Downs Downs Palm Classic Secrets of Magic 86
Jay Marshall Back Talk on Howard Thurston, The Yock, Jardine Ellis (short bio), Wilford Hutchinson, Al Monroe, Houdini, T. Nelson Downs The New Phoenix 301-348 (Issue 335) 151
T. Nelson Downs, Dai Vernon Free and Unlimited Coinage of Silver coins appear at the dinner table from everywhereRelated to The Dai Vernon Book of Magic 169
Paul Curry Chapter Four: Houdini and After on Harry Houdini, T. Nelson Downs, Nate Leipzig, Fred Keating, Joseph Dunninger, Emil Jarrow, Ade Duval, Cardini, Jack Gwynne Magician's Magic 47
T. Nelson Downs An Extra Load for the Miser's Dream getting a forty coin load, described by John Mulholland The New Modern Coin Magic 426
T. Nelson Downs Ambitious Card - 5. double backer Million Dollar Card Secrets 51
T. Nelson Downs, Unknown An Eggs-traordinary Eggs-planation Added ruse by DownsInspired by Magic With Faucett Ross 172
T. Nelson Downs The Downs' Force and Location - Card forced while deck is held behind the back
- Marking cards with sunlight		 Magic With Faucett Ross 175
T. Nelson Downs 1. Downs' Banknote in Lemon Magic With Faucett Ross 176
T. Nelson Downs 2. Downs' Single Cigarette Routine Magic With Faucett Ross 178
T. Nelson Downs, David Devant 3. Downs' Flag Production Produce flags from suitcase on telescopic staff Magic With Faucett Ross 180
T. Nelson Downs The Reversing Match Match reverses when pushed through handVariations Magic With Faucett Ross 182
T. Nelson Downs, Bill Simon Impossible Card Location Magic With Faucett Ross 187
T. Nelson Downs T. Nelson Downs writes some letters - Starting Out in Magic
- A Prophet is Not Without Honour...
- Tread Lightly!
- Coin Wand
- Charles Bertram
- Pantomime
- Miracles
- Dime and Penny
- Fees
- What's New
- Nate Leipzig
- Card Stabbing
- Full Evening Show		 Magic With Faucett Ross 188
T. Nelson Downs Downs Change Card Cavalcade 3 137
Faucett Ross Swapperino Story about T. Nelson Downs switching his dentures imperceptibly at the dinner table Magic With Faucett Ross 158
T. Nelson Downs The Torn and Restored Paper Strip Magic With Faucett Ross 171
T. Nelson Downs The Nelson Downs Palm The Big Book of Magic 34
T. Nelson Downs Downs Change here also called the Tucker One-Handed Second Classic Tackler 3
T. Nelson Downs Downs Change sidejogged card tabled with one hand, with packet or deck Counts, Cuts, Moves and Subtlety 35
T. Nelson Downs Oblique Palm edge classic palm Magic and Methods of Ross Bertram 54
Shigeo Futagawa T. Nelson Downs short biography Introduction to Coin Magic 142
T. Nelson Downs Down's One-Handed Second Deal Related to Fred Braue on False Deals 40
T. Nelson Downs T. Nelson Downs' "Masterpiece" Magic and Methods of Ross Bertram 147
Bobby Bernard, T. Nelson Downs The Downs' Coin Star with anecdotes about Nelson Downs Bernard's Lesson on Coin Magic 24
T. Nelson Downs The T. Nelson Downs Palm with four exercises Introduction to Coin Magic 142
T. Nelson Downs Downs Change brief Teleportation Notes 16
T. Nelson Downs, Dai Vernon Coin Clip Vernon story from Buffum tapes reprinted
- The Gimmick
- Vanish of the Fake
- One at a Time Vanish
- Producing the Coins
- Flash Method
- Karl Fulves Notes (combination with shells)		 The Chronicles (Issue 23) 1285
Eddie McGuire McGuire On Malini letter from 1926 to T. Nelson Downs, describing a stand-up act by Max Malini in detail McGuire On Malini 1
Patrick Page The Page Boy Speaks... on Fred Robinson, T. Nelson Downs, Bert Douglas Pabular (Vol. 6, No. 7) 882
T. Nelson Downs Downs Palm Production Apocalypse Vol. 1-5 (Vol. 3, No. 8) 378
T. Nelson Downs Slip Cut Milennium Aces 26
T. Nelson Downs Downs Palm general remarks Modern Art Of Coin Manipulation 23
T. Nelson Downs, Charles T. Jordan Subtraction Technique calculation help in clocking Card Counting 8
T. Nelson Downs The Kick Move under purse Close-Up Hallucinations 17
Mike Caveney A Coin Vanish Inspired by
  • a vanish in T. Nelson Downs' "Modern Coin Manipulation" (?)
 Ideas 14
Ross Bertram T. Nelson Downs Bertram on Sleight of Hand 81
T. Nelson Downs Real Secret of the Miser's Dream Bertram on Sleight of Hand 81
T. Nelson Downs Reverse No. 6 waxed pair, from Downs-McGuire letters A History of the Brainwave Principle 19
T. Nelson Downs Downs' Favorite Coin Vanish coin with finger clip Bertram on Sleight of Hand 83
T. Nelson Downs The Miser's Dream as I Do It Bertram on Sleight of Hand 86
T. Nelson Downs Whiz Bang Poker No. 71, stack for any number of hands from two to six players More Self-Working Card Tricks 106
T. Nelson Downs Another Poker Trick Inspired by Riffle Shuffle Technique - Part Three 130
T. Nelson Downs Location knowing position of selection after replacement The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 29
Unknown Out of Possession Location visual estimation and stack with multiple outInspired by The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 1) 23
T. Nelson Downs Downs Change Best of Friends - Volume II 34
T. Nelson Downs, David Roth Modified Downs Sound Gimmick Expert Coin Magic 361
T. Nelson Downs No Shuffle eight perfect shuffle recycle a deck The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 14
T. Nelson Downs TND Dovetail Shuffle The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 15
T. Nelson Downs TND Poker Deal stack in which two to six players can be chosen, good hands and performer wins The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 15
T. Nelson Downs TND Reverse from center to bottom The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 15
T. Nelson Downs Downs Move The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 15
T. Nelson Downs Downs Sidesteal first finger break The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 15
Arthur H. Buckley, Harry Lorayne, T. Nelson Downs The Ultra Move Daryl's Ambitious Card Omnibus 78
Dai Vernon, T. Nelson Downs Coin Star The Vernon Chronicles - Volume 1 204
T. Nelson Downs Kick Move Williamson's Wonders 37
Mike Gallo Modified Down's Fan Pass with retention of vision elementInspired by The Trapdoor - Volume Two (Issue 26) 453
T. Nelson Downs Downs Slip Cut left thumb holds back top cardRelated to
  • "The Downs-McGuire Letters" (p. 22)
 Quick Card Tricks 31
T. Nelson Downs Downs Change brief Focus 117
Ken Krenzel Turn-Tail Match match turns over when pushed through fistInspired by Close-up Impact! 28
Paul Gertner, T. Nelson Downs The Flick tabled coin is flicked using thumbRelated to Steel and Silver 15
T. Nelson Downs T. Nelson Downs' Center Deal Fragmentary Notes by Hilliard More Greater Magic 1080
T. Nelson Downs Center Deal Speller three peeked at cards are immediately spelled to More Greater Magic 1081
T. Nelson Downs Pocket to Pocket Trick (Half Card Trick) using a gimmick consisting of three half cards glued together More Greater Magic 1082
T. Nelson Downs The Pickpocket cards of one color are put in performer's pocket who removes cards which are then divined by spectator three times More Greater Magic 1083
T. Nelson Downs A Real Dovetail Shuffle observation that eight perfect (faro) shuffles restore order More Greater Magic 1084
T. Nelson Downs Four Perfect Riffle Shuffles to Restore Full-Deck Order no perfect faros, but blocks are released (riffle shuffle stacking type) More Greater Magic 1085
Paul Gertner The Flick with Cards card secretly flicked across table with thumb
- The Flick Switch
- The Flick Split
- Card in Wallet		Related to Steel and Silver 91
T. Nelson Downs Oblique Palm edge classic palm Grundgriffe der Close-Up Zauberei 17
T. Nelson Downs Downs Poker Trick Related to Setting Up Exercises 48
T. Nelson Downs Downs Change Card College - Volume 3 753
T. Nelson Downs Downs Change The Book 81
T. Nelson Downs, Arturo de Ascanio, Edward Marlo The Side-steal Transfer Related to Card College - Volume 3 759
Simon Aronson Double Progressive Spell Stack Integrate two "progressive" spell stacks togetherRelated to Try the Impossible 41
T. Nelson Downs, John Carney Downs Palm and Production The Book of Secrets 113
Wesley James The WJ Side Steal Related to Enchantments 181
T. Nelson Downs Downs Change Best of Friends - Volume III 488
T. Nelson Downs The T. Nelson Downs Palm production and details Magic Page by Page 145