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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.
Page 2: The Marvelous Pedestal and The Wonderful Egg Trick.
The wonderful egg coud be opened in two places; the “egg” was of wood, and hollow, so that you could open the container below it. [$]
Grey-green paper, slightly sturdier than the pages. [$]
Blank Victorian paper. [$]
Page 6: The Vanishing Cup; The Mysterious Dice.
The vanishing-cup makes a coin seem to vanish: it looks like the coin sits on a solid block covered by the cup, but in fact the cup holds a second slightly larger solid block that [...] [more...] [$]
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