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[picture: Front Cover]

Conjuring Tricks, author and exact date unknown. I was seven years old when we moved house into an old and crumbling vicarage. I found a set of magic tricks in a box in the attic. Most of the tricks are long-since lost or broken since I was only a small boy at the time, but I still have the instruction book. I have scanned every page.

Title: Conjuring Tricks

Author: Anonymous

Date: 1890

Total items: 12

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

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[picture: Page 6: The Vanishing Cup; The Mysterious Dice.]

Page 6: The Vanishing Cup; The Mysterious Dice.

The vanishing-cup makes a coin seem to vanish: it looks like the coin sits on a solid block covered by the cup, but in fact the cup holds a second slightly larger solid block that [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Page 4: The Changing Card and The Heart Trick.]

Page 4: The Changing Card and The Heart Trick.

I don’t remember the Changing Card; I think I saw the Heart Trick and didn’t understand it at all. [$]

[picture: Page 7: The Mysterious Coins.]

Page 7: The Mysterious Coins.

Presumably these were coins that were silver on one side and gold on the other; I don’t think I ever saw them. Or maybe they were cardboard discs. [more...] [$]

[picture: Inside back cover]

Inside back cover

Blank Victorian paper. [$]

[picture: Front Cover]

Front Cover

Conjuring Tricks.

Improved Edition.

Very Entertaining on a Winter’s Evening for Old and Young.

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Conjuring Tricks, author and exact date unknown. I was seven years old when we moved house into an old and crumbling vicarage. I found a set of magic tricks in a box in the attic. Most of the tricks are long-since lost or broken since I was only a small boy at the time, but I still have the instruction book. I have scanned every page.


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