Sharps and Flats; a complete revelation of the Secrets of Cheating at Games of Chance and Skill (1894)
Maskelyne, John Nevil · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 108
HOLDOUTS 89 small holes. These are: to facilitate the sewing of the apparatus to the divided edges of a seam. Attached to the upper surface of the slide will be seen thin strips of metal, bent into somewhat of the … form of a bow. In practice these are covered with~ cloth, to prevent the noise they would otherwise make in rubbing against the cover. As the slide moves forward into the position it occupies in the figure these project- ing strips, pressing against the cover, tend to thrust base-
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