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![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/tn/00-front-cover-q85-338x500.jpg "[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
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.
![[picture: Page 5: The Wonderful Box Trick]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/07-the-wonderful-box-trick-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: Page 5: The Wonderful Box Trick]")
Page 5: The Wonderful Box Trick
Again there is an inner compartment, in this case one that slides so it can be under one or other door (or partway inbetween if you didn’t practise enough). [more...] [$]
![[picture: Inside cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/01-inside-cover-q75-135x200.jpg "[picture: Inside cover]")
Victorian paper, now rather brittle. [$]
![[picture: Page 6: The Vanishing Cup; The Mysterious Dice.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/08-the-vanishing-cup-q85-135x200.jpg "[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...] [$]
![[picture: Inside back cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/10-inside-back-cover-q75-135x200.jpg "[picture: Inside back cover]")
Blank Victorian paper. [$]
![[picture: Page 4: The Bead Trick and The Magic Seed Barrel.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/06-the-magic-seed-barrel-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: Page 4: The Bead Trick and The Magic Seed Barrel.]")
Page 4: The Bead Trick and The Magic Seed Barrel.
I have no clue what the bead trick was. The seed barrel was another one ofthese hidden compartment tricks. [$]
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