Tricks and magic made easy, by Edward Summers Squier, M.A (1919)
Squier, Edward Summers · New York, E.J. Clode · leaf 177
Fig. 37. An ingenious French device is a cover ofthin brass, something less than a foot high,which contains a scoop fitting snuglyagainst the side of the interior. The scoop [175] Tricks and Magic Made Easy is controlled by pressing a button on theoutside of the cover. The button is markeda in the… … Fig. 38. securely out of sight. Such a cover shouldbe used in substitution for a similar onewithout a scoop, which may be passedaround for examination. The production of bowls of water withfish swimming in them, apparently out ofempty space, is another feat done by means [176] Stage Illusions of…
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