Tricks and magic made easy, by Edward Summers Squier, M.A (1919)
Squier, Edward Summers · New York, E.J. Clode · leaf 164
accomplished by theemployment of a small brass contrivance [162] Stage Illusions equipped with a tiny bell which is rungby a very slight pressure. The apparatusis carried in the pocket of a tightly fittingwaistcoat. A slight expansion of the chestcauses the bell to ring. Any watch may beheld up… … Fig. 27. It should be added that those tricks inwhich a watch is seemingly smashed andafterward restored, depend entirely on theuse of boxes from which the watch maybe secretly removed while a substitute [163] Tricks and Magic Made Easy jumble of watch-mechanism takes itsplace, afterward to…
Magic tricks
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