Later magic, with new miscellaneous tricks and recollections of Hartz the Wizard (1911)
Hoffmann (Professor), 1839-1919 · New York, E. P. Dutton & company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 47
Fig. 8. The apparatus in question (Fig. 8) consists of an oval disc of pasteboard, a a (in size a little less than the crown of a hat), to which is attached, by means of a hinge of cloth or leather, an upright partition, b. Though shown upright in the diagram, this partition normally lies flat on a… … a borrowed hat to his table, he introduces the “fake” ; a a adapting itself to the shape of the crown, while b, having no longer room to lie flat, rests in a sloping
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