Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

CHAPTER VI. PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT-OF-HAND MORE ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO COIN TRICKS. Palming 146 Passes 147 Changes 157 CHAPTER VII. 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