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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
616
The
star
may,
in
the
absence
of
a
mechanical
table,
be
placed
on
the
hand,
the
disc
being
pushed
up
by
the
fingers.
Some
stars
have
a
moveable
stud
at
the
side
of
the
pillar,
connected
with
the
rod
within,
to
facilitate
this
mode
of
working
the
trick.
THE
CARD
BOUQUET.--This
is
a
trick
very
similar
in
effect
to
that
last
described,
though
differing
a
little
as
to
the
manner
of
the
appearance
of
the
cards.
Six
cards
are
drawn,
and
placed
in
a
pistol,
as
in
the
last
case.
A
vase
(apparently
of
china,
but
really
of
tin,
japanned),
containing
a
handsome
bouquet,
is
placed
upon
the
table,
and,
at
the
instant
of
firing,
the
six
cards
appear
ranged
in
a
semicircle
above
the
flowers
in
the
bouquet.
(See
Fig.
285.)
In
this
instance,
the
cards
are
attached
to
the
branches
of
a
sort
of
fan,
so
constructed
as
to
open
of
its
own
accord,
unless
forcibly
kept
closed.
The
cards
having
been
duly
placed
in
position,
this
fan
is
shut,
and
pressed
downwards
through
a
narrow
opening
in
the
lower
part
of
the
vase,
the
pressure
of
whose
sides
keeps
it,
for
the
time
being,
closed.
When
pressed
upwards
by
the
action
of
a
piston,
the
fan
rises
above
the
level
of
the
flowers,
and
at
the
same
time
opens
and
exhibits
the
six
cards.
The
vase
is
sometimes
made
with
a
second
pedal,
to
produce
a
second
series
of
six
cards.
In
this
case
twelve
cards
are
drawn;
six
of
these
first
appear,
and
then,
at
the
command
of
the
performer,
these
six
suddenly
change
to
the
other
six.
This
is
effected
as
follows:--The
twelve
cards
are
pasted
back
to
back
in
couples.
Each
of
the
six
arms
which
hold
the
cards
is
so
arranged
as
to
be
capable
of
being
turned
half
round
(after
the
manner
of
the
centre
of
the
“watch
target”),
in
which
position
it
is
retained
by
a
catch,
flying
back
however
to
its
old
position
as
soon
as
the
catch
is
released.
The
six
arms
are
each
turned
round
in
this
manner,
bringing
what
are
naturally
the
hindmost
cards
in
front.
The
movement
of
the
first
lever
exhibits
these
cards;
that
of
the
second
lever
releases
the
six
catches,
when
the
arms
instantly
fly
round
and
reveal
the
other
six
cards,
into
which
those
first
exhibited
appear
to
have
changed.
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