Christopher, Milbourne: Conjuring With Christopher
©1949 Holden's Magic Shops, NY
Softcover, saddle-stitched, 72 pages
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Image courtesy e-Bay seller Zigby7

Comments: Illustrations by Dr. Jaks. "A choice collection of magic with coins, cards, thimbles, silks, ropes, etc., plus a chapter on mental magic...and a variety of feats for the stage."

Contents:

1 Introduction
3 Practice - A Preface

11 Intimate Trickery
11 Tag Trickery
12 The Phantom Flame
12 The Acrobatic Cigarette
13 The Name Appears
14 The Magic Mirror
16 Steel Ball Baffler
16 Squeeze
17 A New Thimble Routine

19 Money Magic
20 Two Bill Trick
21 The Midas Touch
22 A Secret Device
23 Coin in Matchbox
24 Penny Penetration
25 Fire Money
25 Melting Money
26 Burning a Half Dollar
27 Hand to Hand
27 Nickels and Quarters
28 Grandma's Coin Trick
29 Dollar and String

30 Rope Wizardry
30 The Fadeaway Knot
31 Spectacles to Monocle
32 Nautical Puzzle
33 Cigarette to Rope
35 Removing a Knotted Bracelet
35 The Knotted Ring
36 Ring Away
37 The Double Cut
39 The Pull-through
40 Toss-through Knot

40 Conjuring With Cards
41 Aces to Dollars
42 The Tap Force
43 Card in the Bag
43 The Cardometer
44 Salty Surprise
45 Uneasy Aces
45 The Card Revealed
47 The Card Call
48 Card and Telephone
48 Shooting a Card

50 Mental Magic
50 Think of a City
52 Prognostication
53 The Action Test
54 Best-seller Book Test
55 The Card Reflected
56 Water Vision
56 Parlor Telepathy
57 Calling the Numbers
58 The Christopher Slate

59 Stage Magic
59 The Persistent Radio
60 Pop Goes the Rabbit
61 Folda Flower
62 Flower to Silk
62 Stretching a Silk
63 Blended Silks
64 Cigarette to Foulard
65 Pop-through Production Frame
66 Lighter Magic
66 The Flying Flower
67 A Hair Raising Illusion
67 Projection Frame
69 Imagination Plus

70 Routining: Suggestions as to the arrangement of the tricks described in various programs



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