For two people this is a cute idea in clairvoyance with coins or other objects. I like the money version. The medium or psychic is sent from the room. The performer asks someone to donate for the time being a piece of money and it may be either a coin or a bill. Stating that the psychic has a strange faculty where money is concerned (so have a lot of people), the performer puts it in an ordinary letter envelope and fastens on a spring paper clamp to one of the tabs (where you pinch them together to open the clamp) which is attached a cord which the owner of the coin holds. The performer goes from sight and the psychic returns to correctly announce the denomination of the coin or bill.
It’s simply a case of the clip. Take an envelope and a clamp. It can be clamped on any one of four sides of the envelope. The cord is attached to ONE of the wings on the clamp which you pinch and this makes a front and back to clamp. Thus it can be used on either side of the envelope making a total of eight possible positions. That takes care of the 1-5-10-25-50 cent coins and the 1-2- and 5 dollar bills. For a $10 bill don’t use the clamp, but place the envelope in the person’s pocket. For a $20 bill, let them carry the envelope to the psychic. For a silver dollar, don’t use an envelope but let them hold it in their fist. If you get a $50 bill – faint. The eight envelope positions idea is nice and can be used for eight colored hanks in connection with other tests of this nature.
(Note by Ed.) This could be added to when it is a coin of the first five denominations. When such a coin is used, you explain that after she tells something to have her go out again and call you back. You return and they say she was right. Open the envelope, dump the coin out and give it to its owner and leave again. Psychic comes in once more and gives the date. Merely have 5 coins at hand and make a switch. She has the dates listed and looks it up. Or even switch at the start and the psychic can tell it all at once.
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