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Title: Modern magic. : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring.
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919 Hawkins, Arthur, ca. 1940
Subjects: Magic tricks
Publisher: London New York : G. Routledge and Sons
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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hetop of the head. It is hardly necessary to remark that the cards chosen by the MODERN MAGIC. audit nee are forced cards, of which duplicates have beforehandbeen placed in the head. The Magtc Picture Frame.—The performer, always borrow-ing, borrows this time a ladys handkerchief, and any small articles—say a watch and aglove. These latterhe rolls up in thehandkerchief, andplaces the ball or bun-dle thus made uponthe table. He looksabout in search of hismagic pistol, whichis immediately after-wards brought in bythe assistant. Theperformer places thehandkerchief, etc., inthe pistol, the assist-ant meanwhile bring-ing forward and plac-ing on the table ahandsome picture-frame, mounted on astand. It containsno picture, the spacewhich the pictureshould occupy beingfilled by a board cover-ed with black cloth.The performer, stand-ing at the farthestavailable distancefrom the frame, takes FIG# 292. aim at it, and fires, when the borrowed articles are seen instantly to attach themselves to
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MODERN MAGIC, the black background, whence, being removed, they are handed tothe owners for identification. The picture-frame, which is of the appearance shown in Fig. 292,and stands altogether about two feet high, is backed by a sort ofwooden box, an inch and a half in depth, and a little smaller than theexternal measurement of the frame. The inside of this box is coveredwith black cloth, and in fact forms the true back of the frame j and itis upon this that the borrowed objects are fastened by means of smallsharp hooks, the back opening on hinges to facilitate the doing so.An ordinary spring roller-blind, also of black cloth, works up anddown just behind the opening of the frame. We have said an ordinaryspring blind, but, in truth, the usual check at the side is wanting, andthe blind therefore, if drawn down, instantly flies up again, unlessheld down from below. The blind terminates at bottom in asquare lath, five-eighths of an inch in length by three-eighths inthickness, with a wir

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