Peerless prestidigitation : being a collection of entirely new ideas and effects in the fascinating art of modern magic (1910)
De Caston, Herbert · London : Hamley Brothers, Ltd. · leaf 19
PEERLESS PRESTIDIGITATION. 13 Modus Operandi. — This combination will enable magicians to bring into play some apparatus which they have probably put aside as obviously too mechanical. Properly presented, no better effect can be wished for. — Section — … I shall not take up space by describing in detail the various pieces of apparatus, the working, I take it, being well known to magicians of the present day. You will require : — A Changing Drawer Box, with umbrella cover in one compartment.
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