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. [$]
Page 3: The Famous Card Trick, The Ball Trick and The String Trick.
I don’t think I ever saw the cards, and I don’t think I ever understood the string trick, although I di have the parts. [$]
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...] [$]
Grey-green paper, slightly sturdier than the pages. [$]
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.
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