Card tricks : how to do them and sleight of hand : designed for parlor and stage entertainments for the instruction of professionals and amateurs (1902)
Roterberg, A. (August), 1867-1939 · Chicago : Frederick J. Drake & Co. · leaf 93
85 HOW TO DO THEM THE CARD AND HANDKERCHIEF The following is a neat trick, in which a selected card visibly appears on a handkerchief held by the performer. A handkerchief is bor- rowed from some obliging male spectator and is, for the time being, spread on the performer’s table. A card, say the… … fig. 46. loaded into the Magic Pistol, which is given to a gentleman, who is requested to discharge it at the performer when the latter commands. Taking the handkerchief by its four corners and holding it as shown in Fig. 47, the conjurer ( explains that, upon the firing of the pistol, he will…
