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Conjuring tricks with coins, watches, rings and handkerchiefs; from "Modern magic" (1900)

Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919 · Philadelphia, D. McKay · leaf 16

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It is hardly necessary to remark that the diagrams, save where the letterpress indi-cates the oontrary, represent the hands of the performer ai sun by himself* SLEIGHT OF HAND. 7 third fingers and the thumb {see Fig. 6i), letting it, however, reallybe supported by the fingers, and only steadied by… … Fig. 6i. Fig, 62. will find that this motion pats it precisely in the position abovedescribed as the proper one for palming \ and on again extending thefingers, the coin is left palmed, as in Fig. 60. When you can dothis easily with the hand at rest, you must practise doing thesame thing with the…

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