1. Make a four sided false bottom out of cardboard. Figure 37. Note that the sides of the false bottom are just deep enough to hold one layer of matches. 2. Glue the false bottom in place, Figure 38.
3. Cut away half of the bottom of the drawer, Figure 39.
4. The opposite end of the bottom of the cover is now cut away, Figure 40.
5. A layer of matches is placed on the false bottom of the drawer. 6. The silk, rolled and tied with a weak thread, is put into the drawer
of the box, Figure 41, and the box closed.
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As long as the box is closed, the silk cannotfall out, but as soon as it is opened to take out a match, the silk will fall into the hand holding the box.
To produce the silk, pick up the box, open it, and remove a match. As the box is opened, ‘Figure 42’, the silk falls into the hand holding the box. The match is lit and the box tossed aside. While all attention is focused on the hand holding the match, the other hand containing the palmed silk breaks the thread banding the silk. The match is transferred to the hand hiding the silk, the match given a shake to extinguish the flame, and the silk develops as the match is dropped to the floor unnoticed.
A MATCH-BOX LOADER Professor Edgar FIVE This is an adaptation of a clever idea suggested by Professor Edgar in the MAGIC WAND. A special match box made of metal is required. Both the drawer and the cover are gimmicked.
Figure 43 shows the special cover. To illustrate the working of a special metal gate that operates inside of the cover, the top, has been removed.
Actually the top cannot be separated from the rest of the cover as it is one piece about 2/3 of one side of the cover is cut away, space “A-B’. A metal gate “G” is hinged to the side at “A”. Note that there is a space between the bottom edge of the gate and the bottom of the cover. This space must be wide enough to permit the bottom of the drawer to pass between the gate and the bottom of the cover. Figure 44 shows the special DRAWER.
About of one side is bent in to form a lug “L” A curved metal partition “C-D” separates the area housing the silk and the portion housing a few matches.
Figure 45 shows the special match-box assembled minus the top of the cover. Note that if drawer of the match box is pushed inward in the direction of the arrows, the pressure being applied at ‘X”, the lug “L” will force the gote “G” outward toward the opening “A-B”. The dotted lines indicate the direction taken by the gate. As the gate passes “D” it is stopped at point “B” by the side wall of the cover.
Before the presentation a silk is folded and placed in the area indicated in Figure 44. Matches are placed in the section indicated in the same figure.
To produce the silk, pick up the box in the left hand, Figure 46. The drawer is pushed outward in the direction indicated by the arrow with the right fingers. As the box is opened the hidden gote secretly loads the silk into the left hand. A match is removed and the box closed. The right hand strikes the match on the box and the box closed. The right hand strikes the match on the box and the box is tossed aside. The right hand transfers the match to the left which still contains the silk. The match is given a shake to extinguish the flame, and the silk develops as the match is dropped to the floor unnoticed.
BEHIND THE MATCH-BOX SIX
The silk may be merely folded flat and placed on the bottom of the match-box where it is held in place in by a band of weak thread as shown in Figure 47. The box can be standing in Figure 47. The box can be standing on its end on the table, or be carried in the pocket.
To produce the silk, take the box in the left hand and place it in the right as shown in Figure 48. When the left thumb pushes open the drawer of the
box, the thread will break and the silk will fall into the right palm, to be developed as the match is extinguished.
From a Wand in the Pocket*
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Place a pin through the coat under the lapel, point upward, the point of the pin being inside of the coat. ‘Trap-Fold a silk and impale it on the pin, Figure 49. Place a small wand either in the inside in the right top vest coat pocket or
pocket.
To produce the silk, show the he right hand grasps the hands empty. T
coat lapel just and in a positio the fingers to right hand pulls body sufficient left hand to go
over the concealed silk n making it possible for encircle the silk. The the coat back from the ly far enough to allow the inside and remove the wand from the pocket. As the wand is fingers of the right ilk off of the pin, Figure nd tops the right with the silk is displayed as it pand.
taken away, the hand drag the s 50. The left ha the wand, and is allowed to ex
From the Mysterious Tube *
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Thaye Stur’s dio of Magic markets this clever the thumb and first finger of th
tract a silk.
little production in which a piece of paper about 3” x 5” is shown and formed into a tube. One
end is closed. Then e right hand reach into
Preparation:
Form a paper tube ½” in diameter and 1½” long. Close one end of the tube. Push a small silk into this tube, leaving a small portion of one cor protruding. Close this end of the tube also, Figure 51. When the corner of silk ner the by oat sides. paper in the left hand, extend the right and show it empty while the left still holding the paper, pulls up the right sleeve. In pulling up the right sleeve the left hand takes the position as show in Figure 52.
3. Transfer the paper to the right hand which pulls up the
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is pulled the closed end of the tube will open. The ends are closed twisting them between the fingers. Place the tube in the folds of the c sleeve inside of the bend of the elbow. To produce the silk:
1. Pick up the 3” x 5” piece of paper, face the audience, and
per on both show the pa
2. Holding the
left sleeve and steals the loaded tube at the bend of the elbow, holding it gripped by the thumb at the back of the paper, Figure 53.
The two hands are brought together and the piece of paper formed into a cylinder by rolling it around the aacncealed tube, Fig. 54.
5. Finally, the cylinder is closed at one end … the end opposite the protruding corner of the silk.
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