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 487
anting, andthe blind therefore, if drawn down, instantly flies up again, unlessheld down from below. The blind terminates at bottom in asquare lath, five-eighths of an inch in length by three-eighths inthickness, with a wire pin, half-an-inch in length, projecting at rightangles from its hinder… … (an enlarged view ofwhich is shown in Figs.293, 294) is now hookedover the pin, as in Fig.293, thus holding theblind down. A wirerod, attached to this Fig. 293. Fig. 294. catch, passes down the column on which theframe stands, and terminates in the usual disc or pedal at bottom.When an upward…
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