Popular pastimes for amusement and instruction : being a standard work on games, plays, magic, and natural phenomena suitable for all occasions : containing parlor games, charming tableaux, tricks of magic, charades and conundrums, curious puzzles, phrenology and mind reading, palmistry or how to read the hand, humorous and pathetic recitations, dialogues, etc., etc. : including the delightful art of entertaining, the whole forming a charming treasury of pastimes for the home, public schools and academies, lodges, social gatherings, Sunday schools, etc., etc. (1901)
Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia : National Publishing Co. · leaf 143
THE DISAPPEARING COIN. To place a small coin in a pocket hand-kercliief, and wrap it carefully up ; then tounfold the handkerchief, and make thecoin disappear. To perform this seem-ingly impossible feat, all you have to do istake a halt-dime and privately place apiece of soft wax on one side of it;… … FIG. NO. 2. chief, with the waxed side up, at the sametime bring over the corner of the handker-chief marked A, as represented in Fig. No.I, and completely hide the coin from theview of the spectators; this must be care-fully done, or the company will discoverthe wax on the coin. You must now press…
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