The boy magician : a large number of the latest and best tricks carefully selected for the rising generation of conjurers (1922)
Dixie, Raymond, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Boston : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. · leaf 29
ckis presented to an audience. Like nearly all good tricks,the secret of the Phantom Cards is simple. To begin with, there are only two cards and both of themhave spots on both sides. The first card on one side (calledthe front, or obverse side) shows, say, the Deuce of Spades, asat A in Fig. 2,… … HAVE VANISHED FiG= 1.—The Phantom Cards. Spades as at C and the back, or reverse, side is printed with,say, part of the Eight of Spades, the Ten of Clubs, the Six ofSpades and the Nine of Clubs as shown at D ; this, of course,gives it the appearance of being four cards. The lower right-hand comer…
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