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 34
2b PEERLESS PRESTIDIGITATION. principle as "Card in Candle," or "Card on Ale Bottle," using a half shell (cut lengthwise). When you go to take egg, remove with left hand and place in right, in which is original egg still palmed. The shell Front View Jhoujina LUtre^haht … fits on this, so only one egg appears, Pick up the candle- stick in left hand, and bring it forward to show it quite unprepared, allowing the f eke to fall forward flat on table. Replace the candle and pick up the handkerchief. This has an oval wire shape in centre covered by a
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