Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

CHAPTER VII.

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TRICKS WITH COIN WITHOUT APPARATUS.

A Florin being spun upon the Table, to tell blindfold whether it falls head or tail upwards 159

Odd or Even, or the Mysterious Addition 160

To change a Florin into a Penny, back again, and then to pass the same invisibly into the Pocket of the Owner 161

To make a marked Florin and Penny, wrapped in separate Handkerchiefs, change places at Command 163

To make two marked Coins, wrapped in separate Handkerchiefs, come together in one of them 164

To pull Four Florins or Half-crowns through a Handkerchief 168

To pass a marked Florin (or Half-crown) into the Centre of two Oranges in succession 170

The Flying Money.--To make a Coin pass invisibly from the one Hand to the other, and finally through the Table 172

To rub One Sixpence into Three 175

The Multiplication of Money 176

To Make a Marked Sixpence vanish from a Handkerchief, and be found in the Centre of an Apple or Orange previously examined 178

The Travelling Counters 180

The Wandering Sixpence 181