Hoffmann (Professor), 1839-1919., Plate, Adrian, inscriber., Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) · New York : E.P. Dutton & Co. ; London : George Routledge & Sons, 1904. · leaf 183
spected, the watch is no longer in the handkerchief when it is banged upon the table, the actual blow being given by the ball of the wrist. The cleverness of the trick lies in the manner in which the watch is extracted from it. To effect this, the performer lays the handkerchief squarely on the… … Fic. 107. then brought forward over the centre, and the forward portion turned back over that again. The shape of the folded handkerchief is now an oblong, asin Fig. 107, closed on all sides except b; which is open. The posi- tion of the watch is as indicated at 1 in the diagram. If at this stage…
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