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Page 6: The Vanishing Cup; The Mysterious Dice.Conjuring Tricks (1890)

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 covers the first, so [...]

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Added: 2010-06-03

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1389.—Ancient Dice Box.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The government of Edward IV.—a thing of force—grows alarmed at the idea of any decrease of the materials of force, and so the popular sports are condemned, and the instruments used in them are to be d [...]

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Added: 2010-05-14

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1800.—Tric-trac, by Teniers.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Four men are playing at dice, a game called tric-trac. A discarded clay pipe on the floor, together with a wine-jug and an open tankard, hint at moral excesses. The men wear seventeenth-century costum [...]

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Added: 2012-12-02

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