I'm trying to track down the creator of the Phoenix Match. This is a match you gaff to look burned, but will relight. It is in 101 Best Magic Tricks by Guy Frederick.
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Phoenix Match
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Re: Phoenix Match
In Potter's Index, the first date is 1910 in Will Goldston's book More Tricks and Puzzles without Apparatus, entitled Lighting a Match Twice but there is no name of the creator and I can't cheek because i haven't this book.
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Re: Phoenix Match
In Abra during the 1960s, there are ads for a "Phoenix Match" by Alan Alan.
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- Joe Pecore
- Posts: 1914
- Joined: January 17th, 2008, 12:00 pm
- Favorite Magician: Paul Harris
- Location: Northern Virginia
Re: Phoenix Match
A version called "It Strikes Again" which describes how to make that gaff within "Martin Gardiner's Manuscript" column in the Jinx Winter Extra (1937-1938) on page 271.
It was credited as "A chap working in the Chicago Steel Mills invented this trick and passed it on to me."
It was credited as "A chap working in the Chicago Steel Mills invented this trick and passed it on to me."
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