Fresno magic club

Dedication (p.v)

Preface (p.vii)

• J. B. Bobo (p.xi)

• Acknowledgments (p.xiv)

• Prologue—Of Coins and Conjuring (p.xv)

• Scot On Monie, 1584 (p.xix)

CHAPTERS

I. Coin Concealments: Palms, Holds, Clips (p.1)

II. Basic Technique: Switches, Flips, Change-Over, Steals (p.10)

III. Coin Vanishes (p.22)

IV. Complete Coin Vanishes: Palm, Pocket, Sucker, Hanks, Envelope (p.49)

V. Quick Tricks: 27 Tricks (p.63)

VI. Cuffing (p.96)

VII. The Art of Sleeving (p.99)

VIII. Coins Across (p.129)

IX. Coin Classics: 34 Tricks (p.171)

X. Coin Boxes (p.217)

XI. Trick Coin Trickery: 27 Tricks (p.235)

XII. Shell and Folding Half: 18 Tricks (p.265)

XIII. Stage Coin Magic: 5 Tricks (p.294)

XIV. The Miser’s Dream: Robert-Houdin, Downs, Harrison, Whitford (p.306)

XV. The Stanley Collins Section (p.332)

XVI. Routines: 18 Routined Coin Acts (p.341)

Index (p.355)

• Abbott, Percy (p.xii)

• Agnew, Harold (p.117)

• Acetabularius (Roman Conjuror) (p.xv)

• Alibi Twins (p.209)

• Allerton, Bert (p.255)

• Almost a Transposition (p.127, p.238)

• American Lady Company (p.326)

• Appearing Half (p.87)

• Art of Magic, The (p.xviii, p.29, p.181, p.197, p.213)

• Art of Sleeving (p.99)

• Back Finger Clip (p.7)

• Back Palm (p.5)

• Bailey, Sam (p.217)

• Baker, Al (p.193)

• Bamberg, Theodore (Okito) (p.208, p.217)

• Bartholomew Fair (p.xvi)

• Basic Technique (p.10)

• Back Thumb Palm (p.8)

• Bat, The (p.273, p.286)

• Bearden, Thomas H. (p.142)

• Beaubbeaux, Jean (p.v, p.xi)

• Behind The Back (p.36)

• Bent Penny (p.186)

• Bernard, Harry (p.330)

• Bertram, Ross (p.46, p.68, p.102, p.103, p.132)

• Bertram’s Coins Across (p.132)

• Biting a Coin (p.290)

• Blackledge, J. Elder (p.224)

• Blackstone, Harry (p.viii)

• Bluff Vanish (p.59)

• Bracelets, The (p.337)

• Brema, Carl (p.301)

• Bobo, J. B. (p.v, p.viii, p.xi, p.xii, p.xiii, p.10, p.24, p.27, p.49)

• Bobo Complete Coin Vanish (p.49)

• Bobo, Lillian (p.xii, p.249)

• Bobo Switch (p.10)

• Boss, Don (p.295)

• Boston, George (p.230)

• Boston Combination Box (p.230)

• Bottom Steal (p.18)

• Bowling, J. A. (p.104)

• Braun, John (p.xiv, p.80, p.332)

• Brin, Royal H., Jr. (p.40, p.145, p.148)

• Buckley, Arthur (p.xviii, p.160, p.329)

• Buddha’s Coin (p.252)

• Buffaloe, Jimmy (p.34, p.55, p.73, p.82, p.85, p.87, p.146, p.147, p.263, p.270)

• Cairy, Clyde (p.66)

• Calculatorius (Roman Conjuror) (p.xv)

• Caledonian Market, London (p.333)

• Campbell, Loring (p.294)

• Canadian Silver Dollar (p.6)

• Cap and Pence (p.xvi)

• Cardini (p.90)

• Caroselli, Al (p.239)

• Catapult (p.102)

• Changing Change (p.199)

• Change for a Dollar (p.124)

• Change for a Half (p.80)

• Change-Over Palm (p.318)

• Change-Over Pass (p.17)

• Chanin, Jack (p.93, p.94, p.223)

• Charmed Coin (p.75)

• Chapman, Frank M. (p.83)

• Chien, Han Ping (p.190)

• Chinese Money Mystery (p.154)

• Cinquevalli, Paul (p.333)

• Circus Trick (p.240)

• Click Pass (p.14, p.15, p.318)

• Clark, Owen (p.333)

• Classic Palm (p.1)

• Coca Cola Bottle (p.286)

• Coins Across (p.129)

• Coin in Ball Wool (p.299)

• Coin in Banana (p.298)

• Coin Boxes (p.217)

• Coin Classics (p.171)

• Coin Concealments (p.1)

• Coin Flip (p.16)

• Coins and Cards (p.214)

• Coin Fold (p.61)

• Coin to Key (p.78)

• Coin Production from Cards (p.88)

• Coin Roll (p.201)

• Coins Thru Box (p.221)

• Coin Thru Glass (p.268)

• Coin Thru Handkerchief (p.270)

• Coin Thru Knees (p.316)

• Coin of Metamorphosis (p.75)

• Coin Through the Ring (p.171)

• Coin from Spectator’s Clothing (p.19)

• Coins in the Teeth (p.146)

• Coins Through the Table (p.190, p.276)

• Coin Vanish (Greater Magic) (p.30)

• Coin Vanishes (p.22)

• Coleman, Dave (p.66, p.268, p.291, p.294)

• Collins, Stanley (p.xiv, p.332)

• Comedy Coin Routine (p.294)

• Complete Coin Vanishes (p.49)

• Conus (p.xvii)

• Copper Penetration (p.178)

• Copper and Silver Transportation (p.129, p.243)

• Corinthian Coinage (p.xv)

• Cranium Vanish (p.42)

• Cramer, Stuart (p.210)

• Crawford, Thomas J. (T. J.) (p.29)

• Cuffing (p.96)

• Curious Nickel (p.142)

• Delayed Action Sleeving (p.100)

• De Shong, Ralph (p.286)

• Devaluation (p.117)

• Die to Dime (p.127)

• Dime and Penny (p.235)

• Dime and Penny for Wiseacre (p.120)

• Discoverie of Witchcraft (p.xv, p.xix)

• Double Faced Coin (p.243)

• Double Penetration (p.71)

• Downs, T. Nelson (p.xvii, p.xviii, p.29, p.160, p.197, p.202, p.205, p.213, p.261, p.294, p.306, p.308, p.318, p.320, p.332)

• Downs’ Coin Star (p.202)

• Downs’ Eureka Pass (p.205)

• Downs’ Palm (p.3)

• Drobina’s Coin Routine (p.156)

• Drop Pass (p.146)

• Drop Vanish (p.25)

• Duval, Ade (p.294)

• Edge Palm (p.2)

• Egypt (p.xv)

• Electrum (p.xv)

• Elusive Pass (p.317)

• Elusive Silver Dollar (p.39)

• Emmett, Cal (p.92)

• Envelope Vanish (p.61)

• Escee Half-Crown (p.338)

• Eureka Pass (p.205, p.320)

• “Eureka” Routine (p.206)

• Expansion of Texture (p.xviii, p.181)

• Fan Pass (p.320)

• Fetsch, “Hen” (p.249, p.250, p.252)

• Finger Palm (p.4)

• Flight Three (p.303)

• Flosso, Al (p.322)

• Flyaway Coins (p.35)

• Flying Eagles (p.152)

• Flying Half Crown (p.xvi)

• Folding Coin Thru Card (p.291)

• Folding Half (p.286)

• Forty Coin Turnover (p.320)

• Four Coins to a Glass (p.160)

• Fowler, Gus (p.294)

• Fox, Karrell (p.81)

• Fox, Paul, Coin Boxes (p.233)

• Free Unlimited Coinage Silver (p.213)

• French Drop, The (Le Tourniquet Vanish) (p.37, p.38)

• Front Finger Hold (p.5)

• Gadabout Coins (p.182)

• Garcia, Frank (p.35, p.114, p.196)

• Gaultier (p.xviii)

• German Coin Box (p.231)

• Ghost of a Coin (p.188)

• Gimmicked Coins (p.260)

• Glazier-Crandle Pickle Co. (p.326)

• Golden Coin (p.xvii)

• Goldston, Will (p.334)

• Gone (p.32)

• Gordon, Gene (p.262, p.290)

• Graham Music & Lyceum Bureau (p.xv)

• Greater Magic (p.xviii, p.30)

• Guess Which Hand (p.134)

• Hahne, Nelson C. (p.149)

• Hamblen, Rolland (p.241, p.299, p.349)

• Half Dollar in Bottle (p.286)

• Half Dollars and Okito Box (p.224)

• Half Dollar to Quarter (p.73)

• Harrison, Glenn (p.41, p.139, p.168, p.214, p.303, p.322)

• Hatton, Henry (p.307)

• “Heads and Tails” Vanish (p.44)

• Herrmann, Compars (p.307)

• Hilliard, Wm. J. (p.332)

• Hilliard, John N. (p.xviii, p.29)

• Hippity Hop Half (p.147)

• Hocus Pocus Junior (p.xvi)

• Hoffmann, Prof. (p.xvii)

• Hollingsworth, Tom (p.291)

• Homing Coins (p.239)

• Hook Coin (p.256)

• Hooker, Dr. Samuel Cox (p.120)

• Hopkins Theater in Chicago (p.xviii)

• Houdini (p.xii)

• How to Make Money (p.266)

• Hugard, Jean (p.vii, p.xviii, p.121, p.131)

• Hugard’s Magic Monthly (p.121, p.131)

• Illusive Coin Pass (p.29)

• Impromptu Mint (p.82)

• Impromptu Version Smart Coin (p.85)

• In and Out (p.249)

• Inferior Coin (p.246)

• Inflation (p.118)

• Inseparable Pair (p.144)

• Ireland Writes a Book (p.139)

• James, Stewart (p.127, p.199, p.235, p.237, p.238)

• Jimmy Valentine Picks a Lock (p.236)

• Johnson Smith (p.xi)

• Jones, Carl W. (p.xiv)

• Judah Coins Across (p.130)

• Judah Coins Through Table (p.192)

• Judah Sleeving (p.103)

• Judah, Stewart (p.12, p.13, p.103, p.115, p.175, p.192, p.207, p.209, p.288)

• Jumping Sixpence (p.337)

• Just Pretend (p.210)

• Kalmar, Bert (p.232)

• Kaplan, George (p.121)

• Kellar Dropper (p.322)

• King of Koins (p.xviii)

• Kirk Stiles Sleeving (p.106)

• Kissel, Roy (p.81)

• Klein, Bob (p.104)

• Klein, Joe (p.217)

• Knee-zy Vanish (p.50)

• Kort, Milton (p.xiv, p.25, p.56, p.59, p.73, p.105, p.107, p.120, p.121, p.127, p.128, p.129, p.184, p.208, p.246, p.258, p.259, p.276, p.279, p.282, p.346, p.348)

• Kort Sleeving (p.105)

• Laurant, Eugene (p.xii, p.294)

• Lee, Wallace (p.42, p.58, p.189)

• L’Homme Masqué (p.ix, p.xviii, p.181, p.333)

• Leipzig, Nate (p.253)

• Leon, Great (p.xii)

• Le Paul, Paul (p.viii, p.291)

• Le Roy, Servais (p.336)

• Les secrets de la Prestidigitation (p.xvii)

• Le Roy, W. D. (p.217)

• Le Tourniquet Vanish (French Drop) (p.37, p.38)

• Liberty Half and Penny (p.260)

• Linking Ring, The (p.161, p.182, p.330)

• Lloyd, Arthur (p.294)

• Loading (p.111)

• Lydia (p.xv)

• McLemore, C. James (p.134)

• Magical Filtration (p.xvii)

• Magical Filtration Four Half Dollars (p.193)

• Magic Mint (p.289)

• Magic Tricks (p.307)

• Magic Without Apparatus (p.xviii)

• Makepeace, Jack (p.329, p.330)

• Mardo, Senor (p.153)

• Marksman (p.263)

• Martinka & Co. (p.217)

• Master of the Playing Card (p.xv)

• Melting Coin (p.xvii)

• Mexican Peso (p.6)

• Meyer, Orville (p.177)

• Migration (p.114)

• Miracle Coins to Pocket (p.168)

• Miser’s Dream (p.xvii, p.xviii, p.306, p.322, p.326, p.329)

• Modern Coin Manipulation (p.xviii, p.308, p.332)

• Modern Magic (p.xvii)

• Modern Magic Manual (p.xviii)

• Modern Miser (p.285)

• Money Paper (p.237)

• Moore, Dr. Carl L. (p.224, p.272)

• More Magic (p.xvii)

• Morris, Paul (p.15, p.18)

• Morritt, Charles (p.334)

• Much from Little (p.80)

• Mulholland, John (p.xii, p.28)

• Multiplication of Money (p.xvii)

• Mystery with Half Shell (p.265)

• New Era Coin Go. (p.34)

• Nickel to Half (p.260)

• Nikola, Louis (p.332)

• Nouvelle Magie blanche dévoilée (p.xvi)

• Novel Vanish-Reproduction (p.121)

• Okito Box and Silk (p.223)

• Okito Box Coin, Handkerchief (p.221)

• Okito Coin Box (p.208, p.217)

• Ollivier (p.xvi, p.xvii)

• One Hand Switch (p.12)

• One to Four (p.92)

• One to Six (p.93)

• Over the Top (p.23)

• Owen Brothers (p.300)

• Palace Theater, London (p.332)

• Palm Pass Forty Coins (p.321)

• Pants Leg Miracle (p.73)

• J. C. Penny Co. (p.xii)

• Peregrinating Halves (p.273)

• Periander (p.xv)

• Perpetual Coins (p.330)

• Pheidon, King of Argos (p.xv)

• Pinch Vanish (p.32)

• Plate, Adrian (p.307)

• Pocket Vanish (p.52)

• Ponsin, Jean Nicholas (p.xvi)

• Presto Chango (p.245)

• Principles and Deceptions (p.xviii)

• Production at Finger Tips (p.316)

• Protean Coin (p.279)

• Pulse Trick (p.41)

• Psephopaiktes (Greek Conjuror) (p.xv)

• “Pumpkin Seed” Vanish (p.101)

• Punnar, Arthur (p.131, p.206)

• Quick Tricks (p.63)

• Ramsay, John (p.120)

• Rapid Transit (p.148)

• Rattle Box Routine (p.207)

• Reno, Ed (p.294)

• Reverse French Drop (p.38)

• Reverse “Pumpkin Seed” Vanish (p.102)

• Ring Coin (p.261)

• Robert-Houdin (p.xviii, p.181, p.306)

• Roberts, Dr. E. M. (p.xiv, p.38, p.75, p.96, p.99, p.107, p.111, p.112, p.115, p.123, p.124, p.126)

• Roberts’ Sleeving (p.107, p.111)

• Roll Down Flourish-Four Coins (p.204)

• Rosini, Paul (p.121)

• Roterberg (p.217)

• Routines (p.341)

• Rubbed through Leg (p.64)

• Saal, Al (p.39, p.120, p.198)

• Saal, Al, Stratagem (p.198)

• Sachs, Edwin (p.xviii)

• S. A. M. Convention (p.153)

• St. George’s Hall (p.334)

• St. James Hall, London (p.333)

• Scot, Reginald (p.xv, p.xvi, p.xix)

• Seances Fantastiques (p.306)

• Secrets de la Prestidigitation (p.306)

• Secrets of Famous Illusionists (p.334)

• Shaw, Allan (p.12, p.13, p.133)

• Shaw, Bernard (p.334)

• Shaw-Judah Coin Switch (p.12)

• Shell and Folding Half (p.265)

• Shell Half (p.265)

• Short Changes (p.262)

• Shower of Money (Miser’s Dream) (p.xvii)

• Silver Extraction (p.187)

• Silver or Copper Extraction (p.175)

• Silver to Copper (p.224)

• Simon, Bill (p.32)

• Simple Vanish (p.23)

• Single Coin Routines (p.341, p.342)

• Sleeve Pocket (p.112)

• Sleeving One of Several Coins (p.107)

• Sleight of Hand—Sachs (p.xviii)

• Slide Vanish (p.28)

• Smart Coin Trick (p.83)

• Smith, H. Adrian (p.44)

• Specious Specie (p.350)

• Sphinx, The (p.xii, p.88, p.161, p.164, p.198, p.214)

• Splitting The Atom (p.123)

• Squeeze Play (p.235)

• Squirting Nickel (p.264)

• Stack of Quarters (p.253)

• Stage Coin Magic (p.294)

• Stanley Collins Section (p.332)

• Sterling, Harold (p.xii)

• Stiles, Kirk (p.106, p.127)

• Sucker Bluff Vanish (p.59)

• Sucker Vanish (p.50)

• Superfine Coin Fake (p.334)

• Switching (p.112)

• Switchover (p.85)

• Sympathetic Coins (p.xviii, p.197, p.282)

• Tannen, Louis (p.96)

• Taking Advantage of a Fumble (p.20)

• Tarbell, Harlan (p.xii)

• Tarbell, Course in Magic (p.xii, p.xviii)

• Tenkai (p.117)

• Thieves and Sheep (p.208, p.249)

• Thompson, J. G. (p.xiv, p.78, p.85, p.143, p.245, p.350)

• Three and Three (p.153)

• Three Coin Monte (p.336)

• Three Coin Trick (p.184)

• Three Questions (p.268)

• Through the Hand (p.66)

• Through a Handkerchief (p.68)

• Through the Leg (p.63)

• Through the Pocket (p.65)

• (85¢) Through the Table (p.241)

• Throw, The (p.104)

• Thumb Palm (p.3)

• Thumb Palm Vanish (p.25, p.50)

• Thurston, Howard (p.xii, p.294)

• Topsy Turvy Coins (p.81)

• Touch of Midas (p.90)

• Tracy, C. R. (Bud) (p.203)

• Transformation (p.118)

• Transportation (p.115)

• 25¢ & 50¢ Transposition (p.139, p.272)

• Travelling Centavos (p.164)

• Trewey, Felicien (p.322)

• Trick Coin Trickery (p.235)

• Tricks Using Sleeving (p.113)

• Trio of Vanishes (p.46)

• Tunnel Vanish (p.24)

• Two Heads and a Tail (p.339)

• Two Pennies on Leg (p.143)

• Unbreakable Match (p.xi, p.xiii)

• Unique Sleeving (p.103)

• Ungewitter, Robert (p.128)

• Up Their Sleeve (p.250)

• Utility Switch (p.11)

• Vagabond Coins (p.121)

• (16¢) Vanish (p.241)

• Vanish with a Handkerchief (p.43, p.53)

• Vanish for Several Coins (p.45)

• Vanish in Spectator’s Pocket (p.57)

• Variation Transition (p.119)

• Vernon Dai (p.181)

• Virgil (p.294)

• Walden, Dana (p.299)

• Whitford, M. S. (p.326)

• Willard the Wizard (p.294)

• Williams, Oswald (p.322)

• Winged Silver (p.149)

• Woodin, Chester (p.14)

• World’s Fastest Coin Vanish (p.125)

• Wright, George (p.182)

• Wrist Watch Vanish (p.40)

• Yank Hoe (p.xviii, p.197)

• Yost & Co. (p.217)

• Zola, Dr. Boris (p.187)