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 320
ing the two plates together, it is an easy matter to deposit the handkerchief between them. The above description may sound a little compli- cated; but if followed with the plates in hand it will be found perfectly simple, and the sleight is one well y worth acquiring, being the most artistic and… … Instead of being placed on a pin behind the chair in the first instance, the handkerchief to be produced may be folded small, and kept in that condition by a little band of tissue paper of the same colour, which band is attached, by means of a pellet of adhesive wax, to the edge of the undermost…
