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Conjuring Tricks (page 1/3)

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[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

Author: Anonymous

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.

Some sample images

[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 6: The Vanishing Cup; The Mysterious Dice.]

Page 6: The Vanishing Cup; The Mysterious Dice.

The vanishing-cup makes a coin seem to vanish: it looks like the coin sits on a solid block covered by the cup, but in fact the cup holds a second slightly larger solid block that [...] [more...] [$]

[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: Back cover.]

Back cover.

Grey-green paper, slightly sturdier than the pages. [$]

[picture: Page 4: The Changing Card and The Heart Trick.]

Page 4: The Changing Card and The Heart Trick.

I don’t remember the Changing Card; I think I saw the Heart Trick and didn’t understand it at all. [$]


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