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Modern magic. : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. (1885)

Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919, Hawkins, Arthur, ca. 1940 · London ; New York : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 200

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f crockery or china. The speciality ofthis plate (which is known as the money plate, or multiplyingsalver) consists in a flat space running along its bottom, betweenits upper and under surface, just wide enough and deep enough tohold concealed a row of coins (florins or shillings, as the case… … Fig. 80. or six coins, and place it on your table. When you first take it up,you take hold of it near the opening, when you may, of course, handleit as freely as you please, as, the mouth of the passage being upwards,the coins cannot possibly fall out. Letting the plate hang downwardsin a…

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