The Coin and Card Magic of Bobby Bernard

Book
1982
Written by Val Andrews
Work of Bobby Bernard
128 pages (Hardcover), published by Magico Magazine
Illustrated with drawings
Language: English
40 entries
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Val Andrews Foreword
7
Val Andrews A Few Words on the English Language
10
Val Andrews Introducing... Bobby Bernard!
11
Bobby Bernard "Impetus" Coin Production coin produced on fingertips
 		14
Bobby Bernard Face-to-Face Vanish penny sandwiched between two silver coins vanish
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Bobby Bernard "Television Coin-Vanish" (or Change)
  • Handkerchief flourish: coin placed in handkerchief vanishes
  • Used as a "Change": coin switched out
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 19
Bobby Bernard "Fingertip Folly" two coins vanished, they eappear balanced on top of index finger and thumb
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 26
Bobby Bernard The "Trouser-Vanish" coin trapped in material of trousers, spectator can feel it, vanishes
 		29
Bobby Bernard Coin in Tie "Vanish" coin folded into tie vanishes
 		34
Bobby Bernard A Useful Switch switching normal coin for folding coin
 		37
Bobby Bernard Bernard Switch coin transforms into a pair of dice
 		39
Richard Himber, Bobby Bernard Versatile Coin Move uses for the Himber Vanish

  • Multiple Himber vanish
  • Stage Presentation
  • As a "switch"
  • An Interesting Variation (for ring in wand)
  • Vanish in Handkerchief
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Bobby Bernard Indian Rope Trick Chinese coin threaded on wand, rises up the wand magically. Coin is removed from wand, and penetrates back onto wand
 		49
Bobby Bernard Bobby Bernard on "Sleeving"
  • On Sleeving in General
  • "Classic" Sleeving
  • As a Coin Change
  • Circular Sleeving
 		54
Bobby Bernard The "Tourist" Coin silver coin in one hand travels to join copper coin in other hand
 		58
Bobby Bernard The Pawrus Coin coin pushed into fist, vanishes
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 60
Bobby Bernard The "Heads or Tails" Coin-Vanish coin is slapped out of existence
 		63
Bobby Bernard Bar-Top Coin Change copper penny spun on table, scooped up and changes into large silver coin
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 66
Bobby Bernard The Hook Coin: Its Value in Sleeving
70
Bobby Bernard "On Being Fawkes" About Bobby Bernard's portrayal of Isaac Fawkes in performance
 		74
Bobby Bernard A Double Lift
76
Al Koran, Bobby Bernard Al Koran's Top-Change card held in End Grip, some handling finesses
 		78
Bobby Bernard The "Logicality" False Cut
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Variations
 81
Bobby Bernard Just a Thought on the "Charlie Chaplin Shuffle" how Bobby uses a false shuffle done by Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush, same thinking as Ron "Ravelli" Wohl
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Bobby Bernard A "Sure-Fire" Turnover top card flips over as deck is dropped from hand to hand à la air-pressure turnover, corner clipped
Also published here
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Bobby Bernard Bobby Bernard's "Crimp" Sequence challenge card location using crimp (card is selected and lost without magician touching deck)
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Bobby Bernard Oriental Card Divination Chinese coin appears next to selection in the deck
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Bobby Bernard The "Detective" Card Trick Ace of Clubs vanishes from top of deck, appears next to selection
 		101
Bobby Bernard The "Opportunist" Card in Pocket deck placed in pocket, spectator able to pull selection out
 		106
Bobby Bernard The Sands of the Pharaoh deck dealt one by one until hourglass runs out, stops at selection
 		109
Bobby Bernard Bobby Bernard on Misdirection John Ramsay and Max Malini's misdirection skills
 		112
Bobby Bernard Bobby Bernard on "The Actor in Magic"
113
Bobby Bernard Bobby Bernard on "Sleight-of-Hand" On what he thinks the most useful sleights are
 		114
Bobby Bernard Bobby Bernard on "The Classics of Close-Up"
115
Bobby Bernard Bobby Bernard on "Conventions"
116
Bobby Bernard Bobby Bernard on Television On the potential of magic on TV
 		117
Bobby Bernard Bobby Bernard on the Movies How magicians should be portrayed in movies
 		118
Bobby Bernard Bobby Bernard on Close-Up Presentation
119
Val Andrews Summing Up
120
Val Andrews A Few Concluding Observations
121
Data entered by Harapan Ong, July 2016.