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![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/tn/00-front-cover-q85-338x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
Conjuring Tricks, author and exact date unknown. I was seven years old when we moved house into an old and crumbling vicarage. I found a set of magic tricks in a box in the attic. Most of the tricks are long-since lost or broken since I was only a small boy at the time, but I still have the instruction book. I have scanned every page.
Title: Conjuring Tricks
Date: 1890
Total items: 12
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Page 4: The Bead Trick and The Magic Seed Barrel.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/06-the-magic-seed-barrel-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: Page 4: The Bead Trick and The Magic Seed Barrel.]")
Page 4: The Bead Trick and The Magic Seed Barrel.
I have no clue what the bead trick was. The seed barrel was another one ofthese hidden compartment tricks. [$]
![[picture: Page 1: The Enchanted Case and The Magic Box.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/02-the-enchanted-case-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: Page 1: The Enchanted Case and The Magic Box.]")
Page 1: The Enchanted Case and The Magic Box.
The magic box had a (moderately) tightly-fitting inner compartment, so that you could open the outer drawer but leave the inner compartment inside. This [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Page 5: The Wonderful Box Trick]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/07-the-wonderful-box-trick-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: Page 5: The Wonderful Box Trick]")
Page 5: The Wonderful Box Trick
Again there is an inner compartment, in this case one that slides so it can be under one or other door (or partway inbetween if you didn’t practise enough). [more...] [$]
![[picture: Page 3: The Famous Card Trick, The Ball Trick and The String Trick.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/04-the-famous-card-trick-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: Page 3: The Famous Card Trick, The Ball Trick and The String Trick.]")
Page 3: The Famous Card Trick, The Ball Trick and The String Trick.
I don’t think I ever saw the cards, and I don’t think I ever understood the string trick, although I di have the parts. [$]
![[picture: Inside back cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/10-inside-back-cover-q75-135x200.jpg "[picture: Inside back cover]")
Blank Victorian paper. [$]
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