Harold Sterling: No Bottoms, or 50 Tricks With a Bottomless Glass
Sterling Harold: No Bottoms, or 50 Tricks With a Bottomless Tumbler
©1949 Harold Sterling
Softcover, folded manuscript, 8.5x11", 8 pages

Later released by Max Andrews in Great Britain, then,

©1982 Supreme Magic
Softcover, saddle-stitched, 8.5x11", 8 pages
Harold Sterling: No Bottoms - 50 Tricks With a
              Bottomless Tumbler
Image courtesy eBay seller BatCountryBooks

Comments: 50 quick ideas for tricks using a bottomless glass

Contents (from book):

1 Silk to Glass
1 Five Silks and Glass
1 Coin Vanish: Coins heard to drop into a glass vanish
1 Coin Vanish 2: another version
1 Coin Transfer: coins tossed one at a time into a 2nd glass through a handkerchief
2 Silk to Egg: transposition
2 Coins to Lizard: gag
2 Color Changing Ball: in glass
2 Betcha: gag
2 Silk Production: inside glass
2 Ball Penetration: ball penetrates glass and a Top Hat
2 Ball Penetration: a small ball penetrates up through a handkerchief
3 Candle Penetration: a lit candle penetrates the bottom of a proven glass
3 Vanish: a simple object vanish with a table well
3 Quart of Water Betcha
3 Rope Production: long rope produced from glass
3 Prediction: prediction placed in glass matches spectator's number
3 Prediction: prediction on a calling card using a thumb writer
4 Smoke Glass: smoke appears in covered glass
4 Silk Vanish and Reappearance: in a glass
4 Bottom for Bottomless Glass: idea
4 Mind Reading Act: Q&A act
4 Silk Penetration: silk in glass penetrates up through bandana
4 Messy Egg: gag with an Egg
5 Messy Water: another gag with water
5 Miser's Dream: coin production using glass
5 Ring Transposition: borrowed ring transposes from one glass to another
5 Ring Link: small chain links are dropped into glass and becomed linked together
5 No Cover Vanish: a silk vanishes in a bottomless mirror glass
5 Another Vanish: another version
5 Confetti to Silk: confetti in glass changes into a rainbow silk
6 Liquid Vanish: liquid poured into covered glass vanishes
6 Liquid and Glass Vanish: using a Phantom Tube
6 Dye Tube Vanish: use to vanish a dye tube after producing silks
6 Phantom Glass and Silk: glass filled with silk production
6 Phantom Silk Penetration: a silk penetrates a covered glass when covered by Phantom tube
6 Barroom Gag: gag in a bar
6 Inverted Glass Vanish: a ball vanished in an inverted glass
6 Ping Pong Penetration: a ping pong ball penetrates a silk into the glass
7 Silk and Egg Transpo: transposition of egg and silk in glass
7 Jack-In-the-Glass: running gag with a Jack in the Box peering out of glass
7 Box Production: empty box produces streamers with aid of glass
7 Silk Color Change: using glass
7 Confetti to Flag: Red, White and Blue confetti changes to Flag
8 Chain Link Two: another version using a mirror bottomless glass
8 Silk Color Change: no cover version
8 Key Ring Link: link together in a glass
8 Silk Production: from tube in glass
8 Ball Transposition: red and green balls transpose
8 Card Rise: using glass


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