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 88
arm the ladies ”) to use caps only, as the explosion of a charge of powder would have disagreeable consequences. THE “excelsior” CLIP. The little appliance to which the above title is given is one of the smallest pieces of apparatus which can be used by the conjurer, but its usefulness is out of… … take in the edge of a half-crown (as Fig. 46. Fig. 47. in Fig. 47), and on the other hand closes with so firm a grip that it will securely hold a card, or even a slip of paper.
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