New and original magic : comprising a number of novel and entertaining effects, a fund of information for the professional artist and his younger brother, the amateur . 3-^ r-C Fl9/2r. XII 68 NEW AND OEIGINAL MAGIC Four half dollars, are now shown, and steppingaway from the hat the magician cries Go! andthe foiir coins vanish, as he throws his handtoward the hat. Instantly a jingle is heard; thecoins are seen for the fraction of a second, poisedover the mouth of the hat, and then with a merrylittle jingle of silver they tumble in. The hat is detached from the upright, the coinspoured out and o
New and original magic : comprising a number of novel and entertaining effects, a fund of information for the professional artist and his younger brother, the amateur . 3-^ r-C Fl9/2r. XII 68 NEW AND OEIGINAL MAGIC Four half dollars, are now shown, and steppingaway from the hat the magician cries Go! andthe foiir coins vanish, as he throws his handtoward the hat. Instantly a jingle is heard; thecoins are seen for the fraction of a second, poisedover the mouth of the hat, and then with a merrylittle jingle of silver they tumble in. The hat is detached from the upright, the coinspoured out and offered for inspection. The standis picked up and shown from all sides. The explanation of this effective experimentlies in the upright rod of the stand, which is notso innocent as it seems. Fig. 2 shows the mech-anism, concealed in the top. A is a metal arm5 long, pivoted in the wood, so that it will swingeasily up and down. B is a holder just largeenough to contain four half dollars, C is a spiralspring, which acts on the arm A causing it toswing up to an horizontal position. F a right-angled stop to prevent the arm from going uptoo far. When the arm A is pulled down into theo
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