The Magic of the Hands

Contents

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Author's Foreword

1

Some Useful Card Sleights I Have Proved Effective

The "Pass"—"E.V." Colour Change—"E.V." Invisible Double Lift—A New Glide—A One-Handed Force—The "Book" Return—Sighting The Top Card—A Substitute For The "In-Jog."

13

Card Problems

Supreme Control—The Expert Deal—A Royal Exchange—"Sign, Please!"—The "Deo-Ace" Trick—The Thirty Card Trick.

35

Conjuring With Coins

"A Silver Collection"—A Vanish For One Or More Coins—The Changing Coin.

45

Handkerchief Magic

The "Super" Sympathetic Silks.

53

Billiard Ball Sleights

A Few Words On "Angles"—The "Direct Palm Vanish—The "Throw-Up" Vanish—The "Push-In" Vanish—An Elbow Vanish—An Original Colour Change—A Continuous Ball Production.

63

Thimble Sleights

The Hopping Thimble—The Little Finger Sleight—A "Slow Motion" Disappearance—A Triple Colour Change—A Sleight With Four Thimbles—A New And Original Thimble Holder.

73

Cigarette And Cigar Sleights

The "Closed-Fist" Vanish—The "Pull-Out" Vanish—The "Thumb-Pivot" Vanish—The "Finger-Clip" Vanish—Method Of Producing A Cigarette At The Finger-Tips From The Palm—A Change-Over Palm—Changing A Cigarettee Into A Cigar (Sleight-of-hand Method)—The Magnetic Cigar—Cigar To Money—The Diminishing Cigar.

83

My Rope Trick

An Original Cut And Restored Rope Mystery.

101

An Idea For Slates

A Novel Production Of Names And Drawings On Two Ordinary Slates.

107

Miscellaneous Magic

"Visiting"—The Cigarette Paper Effect—A Match "Divination"—A Novel Matchbox Transposition—A Useful Tip.

119

L'Envoi

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Record created June 22nd 2026 by Ryan

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