Conjuring tricks with coins, watches, rings and handkerchiefs; from "Modern magic" (1900)
Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919 · Philadelphia, D. McKay · leaf 54
h its foot. This is placed on a suitable pedestal {seeFig. 82), in which works up and down a steel needle, forming theupper portion of a kind of loose piston, a. The top of the pedestalis covered with green baize, allowing free passage to the needle,which when pushed upward strikes the coin from… … Fig. 82. 46 TRICKS WITH COINS. contain^ among other contriv^ances, what are called ^pistons, beingsmall metal rods, which, by pulling a string, are made to rise verti-cally an inch or so above the surface of the table, sinking down againas soon as the cord is released. The pedestal is placed…
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