Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

The trick next described will introduce to the reader a changing caddy of another and special construction. THE MAGIC VASE AND CADDY. (To make peas change places with a handkerchief.)--For this trick two special pieces of apparatus are necessary. The first is a tin vase, of the shape shown in Fig. 183, and generally of about ten inches in height. It consists of three parts, the vase proper a, the cover b, and a moveable compartment or well, c, which is constructed upon a principle which we have had frequent occasion to notice, the cylindrical portion of a passing between the inner and outer wall of this moveable compartment. It is coloured exactly similar to that portion of a which it covers, which therefore looks exactly the same to the ordinary spectator, whether c be in its place or removed. The internal depth, however, of c is little more than half as deep as that of the actual vase, a. The cover b exactly fits over c, and by means of a little appliance called a “bayonet-catch,” will either lift c with it when removed, or release c and leave it upon a.