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 484
a flatpiece of tin, itsedges folded overso as to form a re-ceptacle or plat-form just capableof holding easily acouple of cards ; nis a spring, which,when the cards are put in position, is set by being drawn back into the notch of thecatch 0. When an upward pressure is exerted by the shaft p p… … < / Fig. 289. 462 MODERN MAGIC. (sec Fig. 291), consisting of two small pieces of sheet brass solderedto the end of the rod which woiks up and down piston-wise in thetube u u. Within the tube is a spiral spring which impels s upwards m\
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