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 247
Later Magic 219 into the palm when the performer desires to produce the handkerchief. THE CACHE.* The appliance which usually goes by this name is a little bag of stout leather, not unlike the familiar Portsea purse, but open at the top, without flaps. It has a loop of gut or wire, after the… … Fic. 125. shape is unsuitable for this purpose. In this particular nothing can be better than the tapering tin or wooden cup used by Buatier de Kolta and described in More Magic, pp. 209, 210. A rubber ball, with a piece cut out of the side, is sometimes used instead of the purse.? Some, again,…
