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- October 17th, 2023, 5:21 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Precedents for Ring/Coin Move
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4137
Re: Precedents for Ring/Coin Move
I don't have either of those books :cry: , but the "Himber Vanish" does seem to be in both of them under different names: https://donsmagicandbooks.com/products/richard-himber-the-man-and-his-magic-ed-levy (in Chapter III; see Contents pages) https://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/book/875 ...
- September 25th, 2023, 12:38 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Tony Hassini speaks ...
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7269
Re: Tony Hassini speaks ...
I remember the Tony Hassini articles in The Magic Magazine and Hocus Pocus magazine. He seemed to be quite successful, or at least famous. So that was Corinda's shop at 7 Tottenham Court Road? And was there another one - possibly connected to it - at 12 Oxford Street? In the early 1970s? I was aroun...
- August 10th, 2023, 2:30 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Zig-Zag Card
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2918
Re: Zig-Zag Card
tom, check out don england's version from his 1979 lecture notes. it's similar. he also has another more complicated gaff that i actually like better and used it in my castle show back in the '80's. It's also in his book TKO's, but the details of how to make it are in Apocalypse Vol. 2 No. 5. I hav...
- July 18th, 2023, 7:59 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Change Blindness References
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5118
Re: Change Blindness References
There's a great Colour Changing Card Trick by Richard Wiseman that uses change blindness, on his wesbite at http://www.richardwiseman.com/quirkology/new/USA/Video_ColourChangingTrick.shtml (with a discussion and links) and published in MAGIC magazine (November 2003). Also there was a post here on th...
- May 22nd, 2023, 2:36 am
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Line O' Type
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3653
Re: Line O' Type
I couldn't find it in Conjuring Credits either. But I did find a wonderful semi-related effect in Karl Fulves "Big Book of Magic" (1977) called How to Predict the Super Bowl (p. 137). It's not really the same, but the principle is similar. It's said to be based on an idea by Richard Himber...
- March 24th, 2023, 1:30 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Packet Switch Reference
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2762
Re: Packet Switch Reference
Sounds a lot like Dingle's No-Lap Switch from "Complete Works of DD", though I think I read somewhere that there's another switch that's quite similar and maybe came before. No idea what it was though.
- March 23rd, 2023, 4:40 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Buddha Papers resources
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5192
Re: Buddha Papers resources
The version with multiple sheets goes back at least to "Manuel complet des sorciers" (1836) by M. Comte. I did some research on this which covers some of the really old sources and a few variations - see my blog post at https://www.corrieorigami.com/post/the-buddha-papers . There's also th...
- January 24th, 2023, 5:30 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: question about Page-Kourcy card pass
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7266
Re: question about Page-Kourcy card pass
The Blackstone book seems to have been published in various editions and combinations. He's not mentioned in "Card Tricks for Beginners" - the only credit is Ross Chandaue. But there's a bit of overlap between some of the Harry Baron books too ( https://magicref.net/magicbooks/ lists a few...
- January 4th, 2023, 3:47 am
- Forum: Light From the Lamp
- Topic: Hot Rod force
- Replies: 44
- Views: 10933
Re: Hot Rod force
Thanks to Mr. Corrie for referencing that thread--there's a great routine in there from Steve Dusheck using this: https://www.penguinmagic.com/p/S4043 which may be of interest to the OP. As a tangential thought: another trick that I feel suffers from the "Hot Rod Force" is Derek Dingle's ...
- January 2nd, 2023, 3:50 am
- Forum: Light From the Lamp
- Topic: Hot Rod force
- Replies: 44
- Views: 10933
Re: Hot Rod force
There was another thread here about the Hot Rod a LONG time ago with some good ideas and information: https://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=10671&p=111744&hilit=force+regal#p111744 I remember making a note of it because I really liked the following suggestion from David R...
- December 6th, 2022, 2:34 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: RIP Volker Huber
- Replies: 4
- Views: 969
Re: RIP Volker Huber
Sorry to hear about this. I never got to meet Volker Huber but I bought a few books from him, including the Bibliography of German Magic Literature he published recently with Christian Theiss, which is an incredible monument to his life's work as a magic historian and scholar. It feels like he must ...
- October 11th, 2022, 7:26 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Donna Lucas, Our Office Manager, Has Died
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2588
Re: Donna Lucas, Our Office Manager, Has Died
Also very sorry to hear the news. She was very kind and helpful in organising replacement issues of Genii when mine got lost in the post. It happens quite a bit, but she was always quick to respond. Condolences to her family.
- September 22nd, 2021, 3:09 pm
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Equivoque Origins
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5533
Re: Equivoque Origins
Hello Bob, My guess is this one, but I do not own a copy so I can't be sure. If that's not it another book by Decremps, Testament de Jérome Sharp , has a chapter on page 150 about magician's choice. It's definitely in "Testament de Jérôme Sharp" (1786). Chapter XI is "Guessing which ...
- August 5th, 2021, 3:26 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Magic magazines/books/newsletters
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3632
Re: Magic magazines/books/newsletters
Hi. Still looking for mags. And books by: David Britland John Carey Peter Duffie. Thanks You can find a lot of David Britland and Peter Duffie material on Martin Breese's site, which is still running at https://martinbreese.com/ . Also bound editions of "Spellbinder" magazine and odd issu...
- August 3rd, 2021, 3:38 am
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: The First Card Trick in Print?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2864
Re: The First Card Trick in Print?
"Clocking the Deck" is probably the oldest Card Trick ever in print in the "Perugia" manuscript by Luca Pacioli from 1478 (whereas "De Viribus Quantitatis" by the same author is from 1493): https://www.conjuringcredits.com/doku.php?id=cards:clocking_the_deck Thank you ...
- July 15th, 2021, 1:02 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Cherchez La Femme
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3523
Re: Cherchez La Femme
In "Pages From Patrick's Notebooks" Pat Page says it's a very old idea (i.e. the simple split face cards associated with Hofzinser, though they were around well before that) and says his contribution is adding the corner indices. The sliding panel versions in Roterberg (1897) and Conradi (...
- July 15th, 2021, 10:21 am
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: The First Card Trick in Print?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2864
Re: The First Card Trick in Print?
I didn't know about the Codice Vaticano Latino 3129. So that's what the footnote in Bill Kalush's article is referring to! But some more googling revealed an article on your blog ( http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog.php?post=blog/20110322 ), which explains a lot. I bought "I giochi matematici&qu...
- June 17th, 2020, 1:52 pm
- Forum: Marketing & Magic Business
- Topic: Why is editing so bad in magic publications?
- Replies: 115
- Views: 28090
Re: Why is editing so bad in magic publications?
Ian Kendall wrote: I fear that most of these people wouldn't know who to ask to proof read their work, In the sentence above, 'who' is the subject of the verb 'to proof read', so that's the correct usage. /grammar geek. Disagree. The core of the sentence is "people wouldn't know who". Sub...
- May 26th, 2020, 2:52 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Opinions on initial Wild Card display
- Replies: 89
- Views: 13192
Re: Opinions on initial Wild Card display
Duraty's initial display is a bit like Shigeo Takagi's from his Wild Card manuscript (also in "Amazing Miracles of Shigeo Takagi"), except that Duraty holds all the pairs in a fan instead of tabling them one by one. Like with a Flushtration count you get a strong impression of having seen ...
- April 18th, 2020, 9:47 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Two-Card Reverse
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2055
Re: Two-Card Reverse
Thanks Philippe. The version in The Jinx seems to be about the same as the one in "Professional Magic for Amateurs", and it does sound like Gibson was describing an idea which as far as he knew was new. It's also interesting with some of these older tricks that magicians didn't mind puttin...
- April 16th, 2020, 11:07 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Two-Card Reverse
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2055
Re: Two-Card Reverse
Thanks for bringing attention to this. I read the Lou Gallo book a long time ago and had forgotten about this. It's a nice version of Paul Rosini's Double Reverse from "Rosini's Magic Gems". Eugene Burger has a great handling and presentation in "The Performance of Close Up Magic"...
- April 7th, 2020, 11:41 am
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Magic Age Cards
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5236
Re: Magic Age Cards
I don't have it, but Galasso's "A devotione del signore" seems to be based on the Magic Age Cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S8XZHzlHaE https://store.conjuringarts.org/product/a-devotione-del-signore-horatio-galasso/ Martin Gardner discusses a couple of versions in Chapter 6 of &quo...
- February 28th, 2020, 3:37 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Dr Daley spin
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3547
Re: Dr Daley spin
But somewhere Vernon talks about using it in the magic shop as a pretend secret move.. I think on the Revelations DVDs Where does he talk about this? This has been bugging me because I don't have the DVD set but I have read the story somewhere, and it doesn't seem to be in The Vernon Touch, the Ver...
- February 27th, 2020, 8:35 am
- Forum: Book of The Month Club
- Topic: Does anyone here speak French?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 26920
Re: Does anyone here speak French?
To save everyone the trouble, here's what Kent's link gives you: "And still about the radio game, there is a booklet entitled: The Long and the Short of It , the Best Svengali Routine in Existence, by Mark Lewis, edited by Lisa Moore (2001). I found it in London in the shop of Ron MacMillan and...
- February 3rd, 2020, 2:45 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Credit help
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6339
Re: Credit help
Mr. Koenig's Tapestry by Richard Vollmer in Apocalypse Vol. 14 No. 3 Martin Gardner described his Paradox Papers in Pallbearers' Review (1971) but the principle goes back to an old Henry Dudeney postage stamp folding puzzle. There are quite a few variations around: https://www.conjuringarchive.com/l...
- January 30th, 2020, 3:36 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trying to find Childhood Optical Illusion Book. Any Idea?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3580
Re: Trying to find Childhood Optical Illusion Book. Any Idea?
There must be lots of them so this is just a shot in the dark, but I have one from around that time called "Take a Closer Look" by UK magician Keith Kay. I think it was privately published, though it seems to be still around with a different cover ( https://www.bookdepository.com/Take-Clos...
- January 24th, 2020, 6:45 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Sad News from Davenport's Magic in London
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10685
Re: Sad News from Davenport's Magic in London
Later we had Alan Alan's Magic Spot ("go look in the window") and Repro 71 may already have been operating (not sure when they started) I seem to remember reading or being told that the "71" was because they started in 1971 - and also that "Repro" was because at first ...
- September 11th, 2019, 11:20 am
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Vernon fools Houdini
- Replies: 82
- Views: 83842
Re: Vernon fools Houdini
Thank you Denis and Marco, that's very interesting. I had to stop getting Gibecière a while back (money and space problems), but maybe I can renew my subscription to Ask Alexander and read the whole article. But weren't playing card backs a more recent invention? I thought they used to be plain whit...
- June 28th, 2019, 2:15 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Graham Adams Card Magic & Erdnase
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11671
Re: Graham Adams Card Magic & Erdnase
I also understood that there were really only a handful of copies of the actual lecture notes, so good luck with finding one. But Martin Breese published "The Best of Pentagram Card Magic" which has a chapter on the work of Graham Adams. It seems to be still available from various dealers.
Re: ERDNASE
There's even a French mnemonic for the same order: Huit (8) rois (rois) très (3) discrets (10), de (2) cette (7) neuvième (9) sainte (5) dame (dame) Katryn (4), assistent (as - 6) le valet (valet) I don't know who came up with it or whether it came before the English version - I found it on a blog b...
- May 29th, 2018, 3:23 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: A Plunger Question
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7801
Re: A Plunger Question
Just to clarify. The effect I was looking for is not the Rising Cards using the plunger principle. It's a completely different effect whose creator was unknown to Hilliard. Thanks to all for chiming in. Not as old as Robert-Houdin, but another reference: I remember this from one of my very first ma...
- February 27th, 2018, 2:26 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Most Issues of MAGIC Magazine are Now Live in the Genii Archive
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6843
Re: Most Issues of MAGIC Magazine are Now Live in the Genii Archive
Thanks Richard, and glad it wasn't just me. It'll definitely be worth the wait.
- February 26th, 2018, 11:02 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Most Issues of MAGIC Magazine are Now Live in the Genii Archive
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6843
Re: Most Issues of MAGIC Magazine are Now Live in the Genii Archive
Is anyone else still having trouble viewing the MAGIC issues? I now find I usually get the covers, but when I try to go into an issue it won't load at all. Or else it does load, and all the pages appear as thumbnails, but when I try to get the full view most of the pages are blank. I've tried from b...
- February 14th, 2018, 11:42 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Roy Walton
- Replies: 44
- Views: 21587
Re: Roy Walton
No problem. And please, call me Edwin!
Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious”
Rumack: “I am serious — and don’t call me Shirley.”
(from the film Airplane!, 1980)
Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious”
Rumack: “I am serious — and don’t call me Shirley.”
(from the film Airplane!, 1980)
- February 14th, 2018, 9:53 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Roy Walton
- Replies: 44
- Views: 21587
Re: Roy Walton
Someday, I would love to read an in-depth profile of Mr. Walton in Genii or listen to/see an interview with him online, but it doesn't seem like that's in the cards at this time. If I should ever be lucky enough to get to Scotland, I know exactly where I'll be going straightaway. There was a nice a...
- February 8th, 2018, 3:12 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Most Issues of MAGIC Magazine are Now Live in the Genii Archive
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6843
Re: Most Issues of MAGIC Magazine are Now Live in the Genii Archive
I find if I click on "Issues" in the vertical menu bar on the right it usually shows just the Genii issue thumbnails. Sometimes there's also a tab for MAGIC; other times there isn't, but then if I click on "Issues" in the toolbar thing at the top left (Issues, Help, Contact, Sett...
- January 16th, 2018, 4:52 am
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Cy Endfield
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11802
Re: Cy Enfield
Cy Endfield was friends with Gershon Legman and Robert Harbin and through them played a small but important part in the history of origami in the West: http://www.britishorigami.info/academic/lister/legman.php http://www.britishorigami.info/academic/lister/papermoney.php http://www.britishorigami.in...
- September 14th, 2017, 9:53 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: At the table dinner table - displaying the cards.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2487
Re: At the table dinner table - displaying the cards.
Guy Hollingworth has a stand-up version of Waving the Aces in "Drawing Room Deceptions" with a discussion about performing "vertically" in stand-up situations.
- July 27th, 2017, 2:50 am
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Dutch Looper / English Monte / English Three Card Trick
- Replies: 77
- Views: 40402
Re: Dutch Looper / English Monte / English Three Card Trick
I don't have it, but there seem to be some gaffed versions in Ganson's Teach-In on the Three Card Monte:
http://archive.denisbehr.de/show.php?book=979
There's also this, which mentions Jerry Mentzer's English Monte:
http://magicref.tripod.com/magref/magmonte.htm
http://archive.denisbehr.de/show.php?book=979
There's also this, which mentions Jerry Mentzer's English Monte:
http://magicref.tripod.com/magref/magmonte.htm
- May 30th, 2017, 10:06 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: How to pronounce _____ ?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 12639
Re: How to pronounce _____ ?
"Bernard Bill-EES" with the "s" pronounced and the stress on the last syllable in French, though we'd probably put it on the first syllable in English, as in "Paris". But "Paris" in French is "Par-EE" with a silent "s", and "Bernard&qu...