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 469
changing trap will be equally available toproduce an object under an empty cover. The object to be producedwill be placed in c as above, the piston in d going down empty, andthat in c rising with the object upon it. The above are the traps in most frequent use, but there areothers designed for… … Fig. 275. in the course of the present chapter). Of course the coins could bemade to disappear through an ordinary trap, but they would cause a sug-gestive chink in their fall. The trap to which we are now referring(see Figs. 275 and 276) is designed to prevent this tell-tale sound, andto cause the…
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