Professional Documents
Culture Documents
vii Preface
xiii J.B. Bobo: biography by John Braun
xvi Acknowledgments
xvii Prologue Of Coins and Conjuring: the use of coins in magic
96 Chapter VI Cuffing
96 Dr. E.M. Roberts' Method
98 Louis Tannen's Method
306 Chapter XIV The Miser's Dream: discussion of Robert Houdin and Herrmann
versions
308 T. Nelson Downs' Original Version: as found in Modern Coin Manipulation, with
back palms, multiple back palms, and so forth, with additional commentary added.
316 Production of any Number of Coins at Finger Tips: Downs, continued
316 To Pass a Coin Through the Knees: Downs, Continued
317 The Elusive Pass: Downs, Continued
318 New Change-Over Palm: More Downs, both hands shown empty
318 Downs' New "Click" Pass: More Downs, Coins to Glass
320 Downs' New Fan Pass: stack of coins
320 The Downs' Eureka Pass: already described (pg 205), Downs' comments
320 The "Turnover" with Forty Coins: flourish
321 To Palm and Make the Pass With Forty Coins: More Downs, with note that it is
not possible
322 The Miser's Dream (Glenn Harrison): Uses thumb palm, make the audience laugh!
326 The Miser's Dream (M.S. Whitford's Version): Closeup version (or stage) with
clear glass; no gimmicks
329 A Miser's Dream Routine (Jack Makepeace): Yet another version. Downs Palm
330 Perpetual Coins (Harry Bernard): Continuous production of coins, climax
produces a cookie
332 Chapter XV The Stanley Collins Section: brief biographies of coin manipulators
by Stanley Collins
332 T. Nelson Downs
332 William J. Hilliar
333 L'Homme Masque
333 Allan Shaw
333 Owen Clark
334 Charles Morritt: describes the Purse Swindle
336 Three Coin Monte: using a small wetted paper on the bottom of one coin
337 The Jumping Sixpence: bending the wrist can flip a Sixpence (dime) (Stunt)
338 The Esscee Half-Crown and Wafers Trick: A Crown is marked on both sides with
gummed wafers and suddenly turns into a Penny. The Crown is found in the pants
pocket.
339 Two Heads and a Tail: Two English Pennies are dropped and the spectator is
asked if the bottom coin is heads or tails. They are wrong, and an additional coin
is now on the bottom
340 The Esscee Front and Back Manipulation: show both sides of the hand empty
341 Chapter XVI Routines: put together from previously learned moves, page numbers
provided
341 No. 1 With a Single Coin: Through the Hand, Through the Handkerchief, Vanish
341 No. 2 With a Single Coin: Producing and vanishing a coin around the Knee
342 No. 3 With a Single Coin: Handkerchief production, penetrates, through the
ring, vanish
342 No. 4: C/S routine (C/S coin)
343 No. 5: Two Copper, One Silver and handkerchief
343 No. 6: Nickel to Half and English Penny, and Routine #4
344 No. 7: C/S Transposition, finish with #4
344 No. 8: Half to English Penny, Through the Pocket, Through the Leg, Vanish
344 No. 9: (shell, glass disk) How to Make Money, Ghost of a Coin, back to silver,
etc.
345 No. 10: (shell, clip) Mystery with Half Shell, Quarter and Half Dollar
Transposition
345 No. 11: One to Six production, Three and Three coins across, Inseparable Pair,
vanish
346 No. 12: Double Penetration, Click Pass, Inseparable Pair, Coins in the Teeth,
Vanish
346 No. 13: Touch of Midas, Sympathetic Coins, Coin Through a Ring, Vanish
346 No. 14 (Milton Kort): Dice Cup, 5 halves, Silver Dollar. Touch of Midas or One
to Four, Traveling Centavos, Through the Pocket, Tunnel Vanish, Gadabout Coins.
With variations
348 No. 15 Too Many Coins (Milton Kort): Flying Eagles, Winged Silver, Magical
Filtration of Four Half Dollars, Click Pass, Inseparable Pair, C/S Transposition,
Vanish
349 No. 16 (Rolland Hamblen): Expanded Shell, Five halves, Boston Box, Lippincott
Box (loads coin).
350 No. 17 Specious Specie (J.G. Thompson Jr.): Liberty Head Half, C/S, Shell. Full
two part routine