Tricks and magic made easy, by Edward Summers Squier, M.A (1919)
Squier, Edward Summers · New York, E.J. Clode · leaf 160
end is shownanother value. Likewise, the ingenuity of the magicianshas displayed itself in a long list of re-ceptacles for coins that deceive the ob-server. One such has a piece of zinc under [158] Stage Illusions a false bottom, so that after a coin placedin the box has been let fall into the… … Fig. 23. coin is of tin and has an inner tube witha slit at the end soldered to the bottom.This inner tube may be pulled down alittle to allow the coin to fall out, afterwhich it is pushed back into place. Suchboxes usually have also a loose piece ofzinc secreted in the top, for rattling. Buta…
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