Required: Two red billiard balls, a white silk, pocket scissors, and an ordinary white handkerchief. Preparation: Cut the white handkerchief into quarters, take one piece and wrap it around one ball and tie off the ends a la a plum pudding. Use white cotton for the tying off and cut off surplus cloth. Have this prepared ball under the vest or in a ball clip under the coat. The scissors are in the left outside coat pocket. Working: Do a few billiard ball moves with the red ball, finally wrapping it in white silk and squeezing through by the usual…
Conjurors are ever on the lookout for pocket tricks, and certainly there is much to say for their use in the everyday social life of a magician. The ideal pocket trick should require no preparation and difficulty of performance be reduced to a minimum, as few care to expend hours of weary practice on a trick that can only be shown to a small circle of acquaintances. The little trick I am about to describe, although quite unpretentious, will, I feel sure, be appreciated by readers, as the effect is a clearly defined one, requiring but little practice. The charm…
Editor's note : The following Cup and Ball manoeuvre will fit in very nicely with the subsequent effects covered in the very exhaustive treatise in Jinx issues 35 through 47. Regardless of the thousand and one moves for this effect, here is an original routine to be used as the opening, designed to eliminate the usual unorthodox repeated "hands to pocket" moves. The three (?) balls only, used in the trick, lay openly on the left palm, and cups can be examined. This opening routine ends nevertheless with the fourth ball under one of the cups and ready for your…
Now make a tourniquet pass from left, seem to rub the ball into the right ear, then let one fall from your mouth into your right hand (drop on table). Left hand placed to nose and ball let fall into right hand. Right hand seems to place ball into left, really palming it, left hand apparently knocks it into top of head, and the one in the mouth is shown between the lips - removed by the right hand (which still hides one) and placed on the open palm of left hand. Right hand then picks up the two balls…
Cup and Ball conjuring is an art that will never be passe. The Stanyon Lessons as serially published in The Jinx have completely covered every move and situation one can possibly want to know or use. The serious reader has no doubt carefully mastered the moves and simple sleights month by month, and is now prepared to execute faultlessly a great number of passes. As with all magic, however, just the knowing of many tricks does not make a magician, and it becomes necessary to formulate a specific routine which incorporates all the elements of showmanship and stagecraft. The individual…
Pull the ball through the top of "A", showing the one palmed, and pass it into "C", which raise showing the three balls. Replace "C" by the side of the balls, secretly introducing under it the one from the palm. This leaves three balls lying openly on the table while, unbeknown to the spectators, there is still one under each cup. 9. - COMBINATION PASS WITH SIX BALLS (1) Starting with a ball concealed under each cup and one in front of each on the table. Take up the center ball and pass it invisibly into "B". Raise "B" with…
Pass 2. - To Vanish a Ball and Find it under either of the Three Cups chosen by the Audience. The cup duly chosen, take up the ball and seem to place it in the left hand, really palming it in the right hand which forthwith picks up and replaces each cup in turn and in rapid succession, presumably to show nothing there, of course leaving the ball under the one chosen (Sleight 5). It then becomes an easy matter to vanish the ball from the left hand and find it under the chosen cup. N.B. - The above is…
3. To Produce a Ball from the Wand Under cover of calling attention to his wand and speaking of its powers of production, absorption, etc., the performer secures a ball from the pochette, and palms it by the second method; or the ball may be obtained from a pin point under coat lapel, from a wire clip just inside the lower edge of coat, or it may be taken from the collar in the act of easing the latter - a very natural action. Well, having palmed the ball, he holds the wand by one end in the left hand…
Cup and ball conjuring is believed to represent the earliest known form in which the art of sleight of hand was exhibited. Whether this be so or not is of little moment, the performance may certainly be considered the ground work of all legerdemain. This is proved by the fact that the best known performers (stage and drawing room) from the time of Kopp (German), Guyot, Ponsin, Bosco, Conus (French), etc., down to those of the present day, have included it in their programs; it was a special feature with Mr Charles Bertram, and is still a favourite with others…
Ottokar Fischer's ball-dropper is a simple yet highly effective device that allows a magician to secretly obtain a ball without detection, even under close scrutiny. The design is straightforward and ensures seamless execution during performances. Construction The dropper is crafted from a sturdy wire approximately 1/16th of an inch in diameter, bent into a specific form. A safety pin is attached to the longer loop using heavy black thread. To complete the device, a three-quarter inch black tape is sewn in place, creating a small bag about an inch and a half deep—large enough to hold a ball of the…