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 396
r oneis opened. As the performer dips the ladle apparently into the inkin the bowl, he scrapes off with his nai1 the wax or paper withwhich the upper hole is stopped, and the ink immediately runs intothe bowl, whence it is poured upon the plate. The Inexhaustible Bottle.—The same natural principle… … Fig. 205, upper hole is opened, is thebasis of this old but stillpopular trick. The inex-haustible bottle, though inappearance an ordinary glassbottle, is in reality of tin,japanned black. Internallyit is divided into three, four,or rive separate compart-ments, ranged round a cen-tral space, and…
Magic tricks
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