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Philippe Billot

I read the Ostaski's version in Further Tips on Zombie. It's not the same method as Astro-Sphere.

There are some similarities in the handling but Ostaski's method doesn't use a silk.

I'm waiting for a response from Germany. Maybe we would know the name of the creator...

Philippe Billot

The first ad in France is in the magazine Le Magicien no. 97, october 1965 under the title BELLE DE NUIT (marketed by Mayette) but no name of the creator.

Philippe Billot

First ad in September 1971 by Tannen

BUT I bought it in 1965 in France and one of my friend said it can come from Germany first.

So if someone have other informations...

Thank in advance.

Philippe Billot

Thank Jonathan.

Philippe Billot

Who knows the creator of the version with a transparent silk and a thread in which the ball can float behind and in front of the silk?

If possible, I want also the date of creation and where the first ad was printed.

Thank in advance

It seems the name of the trick is Butterfly but I'm not sure.

Philippe Billot

In Conjuring Archive, they refer to "Clip Line" in Six Columns by Al Mann (1982) and Al Mann attributes the principle to Albert Spackman.

Yates' method is different.

So, you are right Joe Lyons.

Thank again.

Philippe Billot

If it’s the bit with the news paper held upside down for the force of a line the credit belongs to Spackman. (Per Max when from I was writing something about it several years ago) I have not yet check Jack Yates because I wasn't in my home but if his trick "Clip Line" uses the same princi...

Philippe Billot

Joe Lyons wrote:Philippe check The Gen Volume 20 No. 6 October 1964
Newspaper Test by Albert Spackman.

Also check Clip Line in Minds in Closeup by Jack Yates 1954

Thanks Joe

That's OK

Philippe Billot

Big mistake, it's not Jack Lemmon but Joe E. Brown who said this famous replica

Philippe Billot

Nobody is perfect (as Jack Lemmon said in Like It Hot)

Philippe Billot

EdwinCorrie wrote:Hi Philippe, comment ça va?.

Ça va très bien, et vous ?

Philippe Billot

All right, Thank you Messieurs

Philippe Billot

I have an index of Daley's Notebook but I don't remember if I copy Duffie's index or I do it myself.

If someone want to have it, give me a message with your email so I can spend it .

My file is on Excel.

Philippe Billot

Is Harry Lorayne the creator of the principle explains in The Magic Book (1977) page 224 or is there an anteriority ?

Thanks in advance.

Philippe Billot

Here is a tip! SID LORRAINE'S TIP OF THE MONTH (NEW TOPS, Vol. 4, no. 3, march 1964) If you're a walnut-shell-and-pea performer, you may have, already, done a lot of experimenting with compositions and substitutes for the elusive pea. While this half-shell swindling is not on my list of regular clos...

Philippe Billot

It seems that Tom Sellers was inspired by THE LAUGH CARD by Jack Lamonte, marketed by Abbott's in June 1948.

That'll be enough for today.

Philippe Billot

After few searches in Ask Alexander and Conjuring Archive, it seems that Tom sellers and Harold Beaumont independently have the same idea in the 1940's. A three which becomes a ten in a "long" card. BUT in the review of The Magic Wand no. 235, oct 1952, we can read : Jack Lamonte had origi...

Philippe Billot

Ah ! Ah ! Good question. Get to work!

Philippe Billot

I find a trick by Frank Chapman in Another Six Bits (1936) entitled A Gag in which you show a Six as the chosen card and when the spectator say his card is a Five, you show that the Six have only five spots.

There is no rising card and no corner fold but the idea is the same.

Philippe Billot

I think you can do this gag with children but not adults

Philippe Billot

Hi, Erdnase (?)

OK. It's prior to Colombini.

On the other hand I can tell you that the egg-beater's gag comes from Clayton Rawson.

See HMM, vol 5, no. 2, july 1947. The little wonder Thought Projector, page 331

Philippe Billot

Aldo had also this kind of gag in his book The Close-up Magic of Aldo Colombini published in 1994. See Mini & Maxi, page 82.

Do you remember where and when you have seen Paul Daniels doing this gag?

Philippe Billot

Yes, he (Dedi) is a fictitious character.

It's Kurt Volkman's opinion in his Story of Magic and his argument is plausible.

Philippe Billot

Thanks Edward

Philippe Billot

Bad luck, it's not for European...

Philippe Billot

I advise you to read Daryl's Ambitious Card Omnibus by Stephen Minch (1987). Daryl had an original final.

Philippe Billot

Very good (and funny)

Philippe Billot

But maybe you were making a joke alluding to MINT?

Oh, yes! You are co-founder of H&R Magic Books and you are refering to the first books published by Nick Trost...

Philippe Billot

I have only from May 1961 to December 1994 in the New Tops.

After, it's another story...

Philippe Billot

Personally, I have the TINT (Trost In New Tops), an underground book.

Philippe Billot

Thanks Edwin for these references.

Ostin's idea is a very good one!

Philippe Billot

Thanks, Mr. Behr. Another good reference!

Even in the Potter Index, they missed it.

BRAVO

Philippe Billot

If the "lovely ruse" is the one explained by JR, it remember me an application by Ed Marlo in his book The Unexpected Card Book entitled The Quick Cull Miracle.

Philippe Billot

You can find the Elmsley Strip-out Switch, page 238 from The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley (1991)

Philippe Billot

Do we go back to the good old days of the "underground"?

Philippe Billot

No, in the NoLap, after the strip-out and the addition under the four cards, you steal these four indifferent cards above the Aces under the right packet held by the right hand. In Rhod's sleight, you strip-out the cards and you put them immediately on the table and you have only the number of cards...

Philippe Billot

In 1994, Daniel Rhod described a switch pratically similar in his book Plus Secrets Secrets, except he used a cover and it's the left forefinger under this cover which pushes cards into the deck. He was inspired by an Elmsley's idea.

Philippe Billot

Richard Kaufman wrote:Corrie, what is the best coin fold?

You can use Docc Hilford's idea. See Switchblade - 2014

OR...

Marlo's Method in Coining Magic - 1956

Philippe Billot

It's a marketed trick entitled "Magic Hand Coin Fold" published in 1981 by FetAque Sanders

Philippe Billot

Hi Edwin, How are you?

You have a good method with photographs in The Modern Conjurer (1902), page 168 for The Coin Fold by C. Lang Neil.

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