Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . pretend sur-prise on finding thatthere is a corner miss-ing when the card isrestored. Directly after-wards, however, theypick up the missng frag-ment from the flout,where they have jiisipreviously dropped it,and the trick proceedsas already reader will, no doubt, already have conjectured that the carddrawn is a forced one, and that the supposed restored card was con-cealed beforehand under the false bottom of the card-box. Thispretended restored card is, in reality, an ingenious though simplepiece of apparatus, constr
Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . pretend sur-prise on finding thatthere is a corner miss-ing when the card isrestored. Directly after-wards, however, theypick up the missng frag-ment from the flout,where they have jiisipreviously dropped it,and the trick proceedsas already reader will, no doubt, already have conjectured that the carddrawn is a forced one, and that the supposed restored card was con-cealed beforehand under the false bottom of the card-box. Thispretended restored card is, in reality, an ingenious though simplepiece of apparatus, constructed as follows :—A piece of tin is cut tothe exact size and shape of a card j out of this, at one of the corners,is cut an oblong piece, measuring about one inch by piece is attached by a spring hinge, a a, on one side of it, to thelarger piece of tin, in such manner that it can be folded back (seeFig. 54) flat against it; the action of the spring, however, bringing itback again, when released, to its original position. To this piece of.
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