(Editor's note: This is a trick evolved, finally, from virtually a bit here and a bit there. The effect in itself first was published by Tom Sellers about five years ago. The use of burning paper (Sellers laid a burning cigarette on the tray to melt the wax, but this had no real reason) as a coin fold was the improvement of Charles Harris, of New York, and the superlatively clean-cut coinfold used herein came from our scrapbook as penciled to us by H. G. A. Lambie, of Vancouver, exactly eleven years ago this month.) This has been called, by…
Those in magic for 12 years or more will remember well those effects Poko Chinko (Thayer) and Dis-Kor-Ball (Hornmann). A ball was threaded onto a cord and a number of differently colored discs threaded on the cord. Under a handkerchief the ball and discs were removed. This trick found a very good reception for there was no set up or preparation. It could be repeated at will and it made an excellent "bally" stunt. For quite a few years now the effect has been dormant. In the present version, which several magicians have said is more puzzling than the original…