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Hi Dave, fancy seeing you here! Mariano Tomatis has some material on these that includes details of some of the references already given: https://www.marianotomatis.it/blog.php?post=blog/20110715&section=english https://www.marianotomatis.it/blog.php?post=blog/20110707&section=english I beli...

The Talon is excellent. The full set was being sold as a bound edition by Micky Hades. Not sure if it's still available, but here's what it looks like: https://quickerthantheeye.com/p/cards/The_Magnificent_Seven_of_the_Talon_Complete_File-15292 The New Talon only ran 3 issues but also had some reall...

Thanks Marty, it's good to see that again and also the explanation.

This isn't going to be much help (unless perhaps it jogs someone else's memory) but there was definitely a lengthy article on Dan Harlan in one of the magazines not so long ago. It could have been MAGIC, but I can't seem to find it.

You can find the Himber Coin Vanish in Apocalypse, Vol. 5, no. 9, september 1982, page 682. I'm not well versed in coin magic, but apart from a book by Aurelio Paviato that's the only place I've seen it explained in writing. Surely it must be somewhere else? Ian Kendall also teaches it very well in...

See "Mental Marvels" by Albert Cohn in Hugard's Magic Monthly , Dec 1945, p. 171. Bien aussi, merci. Unless I'm missing something, this seems to be a thumb writer routine. Line o' Type is the one where you cut a strip of newspaper at any chosen point but because it's held upside down the ...

Hi Philippe, comment ça va? I'm sure this in lots of books for children, but on looking I only found a couple - Newspaper Prediction in "Close-up Magic" (1974) by Harry Baron, and The Want Ad Test in "Self-Working Mental Magic" (1979) by Karl Fulves. Unfortunately no mention of t...

Corrie, what is the best coin fold? You can use Docc Hilford's idea. See Switchblade - 2014 OR... Marlo's Method in Coining Magic - 1956 The original pure folding methods (there seem to be two, both are in Tarbell Vol 1) are good, but I think Marlo's from "Coining Magic" is the most effic...

Hi Edwin, How are you? You have a good method with photographs in The Modern Conjurer (1902), page 168 for The Coin Fold by C. Lang Neil. Hi Philippe, fine thanks. It's always good to see you here. The method in The Modern Conjurer is already different from the one in Hoffmann. I collect Coin Folds...

So I managed to find my old Magigrams. As Philippe points out, the difference is that the halves are stepped lengthwise - which is actually how I imagined it from MarcillaAitor's description. Ken de Courcy doesn't claim it but it's the kind of thing I think he might have come up with. He also says i...

The Blackstone book is online here (two different links): https://www.marianotomatis.it/?page=biblioteca&code=BLA1941 The Revolving Pass is on page 13. The Roly Poly Pass is in Harry Baron's "Card Tricks for Beginners" ( https://magicref.net/magicbooks/books/baronharrycardtricksforbegi...

Thanks Bill. Not sure about contact details as his website at http://www.jeffpiercemagic.com/ doesn't seem to be working. Hope he wasn't affected by the hurricane.

Richard Kaufman wrote:EdwinCorrie: why don't you write to Karl and ask him. He answered a letter I sent several months ago.

I might just try that. I'll post here if he replies.

Philippe: Sounds good! I printed a few out from Bibliomagies but not very many, and it would be good to have the updated versions.

Thanks to everyone for their replies, especially Quentin for the suggestion (I tried turning it inside out but all I got was a Hypercard) and information, and for detailing your routine. I saw you perform this a few years ago, probably at The Session in London. Great presentation! And merci Philippe...

I have the original manuscript of the Karl Fulves manuscript on Robert Neale's Trapdoor Card from 1983, which has 12 pages. But looking through some old files today I found a photocopy given to me by someone years ago, which looks like a continuation of the manuscript. The pages are numbered 13 to 1...

Guyot 1769: I read somewhere that the mistake about the date for Guyot comes from "Magic without Apparatus", the English translation of Gaultier's "La prestidigitation sans appareils". The English translation gives the date as 1740 - but Gaultier's original is actually wrong too ...

On 23 June 2021 Bill Kalush has announced the discovery by Professor Angela Nuovo of the University of Milan of a book by Giovanbattista Verini Fioretino (probably "from Florence"), printed in Milan in 1542: https://conjuringarts.org/2021/06/the-first-card-tricks-in-print/ For those inter...

Is the Ken Beale trick the one with the pen and business card in Karl Fulves' Self-Working Table Magic ("based on a trick by Ken Beale")? If not, or even if it is, could I ask where "Baffler" was published? Hugard's Magic Monthly, March 1950 (and Max is right, it is a good trick...

JustinM wrote:

EdwinCorrie wrote: Maybe there will be a DVD version of the Dingle video too?

https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/card- ... is-france/

You're welcome........

Thank you, I didn't know about that!

Greater Magic was published in 1938, by which time rubber bands had been around for about a century. The jumping rubber band trick that virtually every beginner learns was invented by Stanley Collins and published in late 1911. So while yes, there has been a boom of invention with rubber band magic...

It might annoy some people but there should probably be something on rubber band tricks, which were not at all common when GM first came out. And other personal likes would be topological card magic (including Card Warp, torn and restored etc.) and origami-related tricks. Also probably memorised dec...

Edwin, you can dip into the Jennings book at any point if you have some background in card work. There might be a reference to something described earlier, but those things are easy to look up. Enjoy it! There's so much I want to try out that I'll no doubt be doing just that. The whole thing is jus...

Mine arrived here in France a couple of days ago. What an INCREDIBLE book! I'm literally just finishing my very gradual cover-to-cover reading of the DeLand book (which is also INCREDIBLE), and now there's this. It's hard to resist dipping in and trying things, but it does seem the intention is to w...

I'm not a serious collector, but you can get an idea from bookseller websites: https://www.worthpoint.com/inventory/search?query=hoffmann+modern+magic&categories= https://biblio.co.uk/book/modern-magic-practical-treatise-art-conjuring/d/1276583555 https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?s...

I think it was David Alexander. His name appears in a quote a few posts later ("David Alexander wrote:") and as a member of the BOS I recall being interested in this at the time.

Jack Shalom Wrote : "I looked up the Regal trick in Approaching Magic--it's called 'Raising Kane.' " I assume the "Raising Cane" title is a play on words since Peter Kane was the creator of at least the core plot behind what Frank Garcia later called ""Wild Card."...

What does Durarty say after the fake ten (AS) has ruined his collection? He says it's hard to find really perfect tens of diamonds for his collection - some have 9 spots, some 7, etc. Sometimes someone tries to slip him really badly made fakes (AS), which he has learned to recognise at first glance...

Forgot to mention it but I have the English edition of "Can You Believe Your Eyes?", mentioned by Philippe. https://www.amazon.com/Can-You-Believe-Your-Eyes/dp/0876306954 You can "Look inside" to see if it's of interest - it covers quite a lot of ground. The British edition was l...

Hi Sébastien,
I'd be interested in these. I sent you an e-mail.
Edwin

His Two Card Monte and Inverto are the first uses of the card since Hofzinser half a century earlier. For a fascinating 1623 source for double backers, see the Reinhard Müller discovery in the recent issue of Gibecière . Any chance you could mention what the source is? The article is called "T...

Not sure if this is exactly what you're referring to, but I found the following. "One is to take the position of the key card from the top of the deck and deduct it from 52 (the number of cards in play). (...) Now continue counting, starting on your key card (20), and again counting backwards: ...