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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.
![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/00-front-cover-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
Conjuring Tricks. Improved Edition. Very Entertaining on a Winter’s Evening for Old and Young.
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: Page 4: The Bead Trick and The Magic Seed Barrel.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/06-the-magic-seed-barrel-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: Page 4: The Bead Trick and The Magic Seed Barrel.]")
Page 4: The Bead Trick and The Magic Seed Barrel.
I have no clue what the bead trick was. The seed barrel was another one ofthese hidden compartment tricks. [$]
![[picture: Page 6: The Vanishing Cup; The Mysterious Dice.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/08-the-vanishing-cup-q85-135x200.jpg "[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...] [$]
![[picture: Page 4: The Changing Card and The Heart Trick.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/05-the-changing-card-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: Page 4: The Changing Card and The Heart Trick.]")
Page 4: The Changing Card and The Heart Trick.
I don’t remember the Changing Card; I think I saw the Heart Trick and didn’t understand it at all. [$]
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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