Magic; stage illusions and scientific diversions, including trick photography (1897)
Hopkins, Albert A. (Albert Allis), 1869-1939, Evans, Henry Ridgely, b. 1861 · London : Low · leaf 139
ch is placed a sort of hollow cover con-taining the impression of the coin, and which fits on thelatter so accurately that the piece looks like an ordinarysou. This cover is lifted and made to slide alongside ofthe coin, thus sliowing two pieces instead of one. The cover is stamped from a thin… … FIG. 3. THE DOUBLE sou. THE DISSOLVING COIN. Borrow a silver dollar, and have it marked, so that it can be identified.Ask some one tp hold the coin horizontally between the thumb and forefinger ofthe right liand within the folds of a silk handkerchief, and over a glass full ofwater held in the left…
Magic tricks
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