Who hasn't heard of John Ramsey, and the way he outdistances everyone of note with his close-up thimble and coin work. Here's his description of a 100% elusive thimble effect. An extra finger often is employed in the production of silks, etc., but in this effect the production is made from a missing finger which paradoxical though it may seem, is never missed. In this effect the hands are clasped with the fingers interlocking. The backs and fronts of hands are shown empty and then a thimble produced. Have a thimble thumb palmed in right hand, and with hands hanging…
Hobart, Oklahoma November 12, 1937 Dear Annemann; Here's a thimble production act that is simple, easy, and perfectly deceptive. Stack about 15 thimbles in the palm of your left hand, and thumb palm one in the right hand. Pick up a drinking glass and show it empty, holding it with the left hand. The 15 thimbles will be between your left palm and the glass. The glass is a straight sided one, and a strip of flesh colored tissue is pasted the length of the back side. This keeps the thimbles from showing through. The stack may be secured from…
This is a really good finger exercise as well as effect. The magician patters along the line that many people ask him just how he goes about to keep his fingers so nimble. In answer to this much asked question he will show them his finger exercise. Two thimbles are shown. One is red and on the right index finger, and the other is blue and on the middle finger of the same hand. The hand is given a slight wave and the red one is seen to have jumped over the blue and is now on the fourth finger.…