Modern Coin Magic
by J.B. Bobo
Preface
J. B. Bobo
Acknowledgments
Prologue--Of Coins and Conjuring
Scot On Monie, 1584
I Coin Concealments:
Palms, Holds, Clips
The Classic Palm
The Edge Palm
The Thumb Palm
The Downs Palm
The Finger Palm
The Front Finger Hold
The Back Palm
The Back Finger Clip
The Back Thumb Palm
II Basic Technique: Switches, Flips,
Change-Over, Steals
The Bobo Switch
Utility Switch
One-Hand Switch
Shaw-Judah Coin Switch
The Click Pass
The Click Pass--Paul Morris
The Coin Flip
Change-Over Pass
The Bottom Steal
Producing a Coin from a Spectator's Clothing
Taking Advantage of a Fumble (3 methods)
III Coin Vanishes
Standard Vanish
Simple Vanish
Over the Top
The Tunnel Vanish
Thumb Palm Vanish
The Drop Vanish
The Bobo Coin Vanish
The Slide Vanish
The Illusive Coin Pass
A Coin Vanish
The Pinch Vanish
Gone
The New Era Coin Go
The Flyaway Coin
Behind the Back
The French Drop
The Reverse French Drop
The Elusive Silver Dollar
The Wrist Watch Vanish
The Pulse Trick
The Cranium Vanish
Vanish with the Aid of a Handkerchief
The "Heads and Tails" Vanish
Vanish for Several Coins
IV Complete Coin Vanishes: Palm, Pocket,
Sucker, Hanks, Envelope
The Bobo Complete Coin Vanish
Complete Thumb Palm Vanish
Knee-zy Vanish
Sucker Vanish
Pocket Vanish
With a Handkerchief No. 1
With a Handkerchief No. 2
With a Handkerchief No. 3
In a Spectator's Pocket (3 methods)
Bluff Vanish
Sucker Bluff Vanish
The Coin Fold
The Envelope Vanish
V Quick Tricks: 27 Tricks
Through the Leg (2 methods)
Rubbed Through the Leg
Through the Pocket (3 methods)
Through the Hand (3 methods)
Through a Handkerchief (2 methods)
Double Penetration
Pants Leg Miracle
Hall Dollar to a Quarter
The Charmed Coin
The Coin of Metamorphosis
Coin to Key
Change for a Half
Much from Little
The Topsy Turvey Coins
The Impromptu Mint
Smart Coin Trick
Smart Coin Trick: Impromptu Version
The Switchover
The Appearing Half
Coin Production from Two Cards
The Touch of Midas
One to Four
One to Six
VI Cuffing
Dr. E. M. Roberts' Method
Louis Tannen's Method
VII The Art of Sleeving
Some observations on the subject
Delayed Action Sleeving
Improved Method
The "Pumpkin Seed" Vanish
Reverse "Pumpkin Seed" Vanish
The Catapult
Judah Method
A Unique Sleeving Move
The Throw
Kort Method
Kirk Stiles Method
A Method of Sleeving One of Several Coins
Dr. E. M. Roberts' Method
Loading
Switching
The Sleeve Pocket
Tricks Using Sleeving
VIII Coins Across
Copper and Silver Transposition - Milton Kort
Copper and Silver Transposition--Second Method - Stewart Judah
Copper and Silver Transposition--Third Method - Arthur Punnar
Copper and Silver Transposition--Fourth Method - Ross Bertram
Guess Which Hand - C. James Mclemore
Quarter and Half Dollar Transposition - Laurie Ireland
The Curious Nickel - Thomas H. Bearden
Two Pennies On The Leg - J. G. Thompson, Jr.
The Inseparable Pair
Coins in the Teeth
The Drop Pass - Jimmy Buffaloe
The Hippity Hop Half - Jimmy Buffaloe
Rapid Transit - Royal H. Brin, Jr.
Winged Silver - Nelson C. Hahne
The Flying Eagles
Three and Three
Chinese Money Mystery
Frank Drobina's Coin Routine - Frank Drobina
Four Coins to a Glass - Described by Arthur Buckley
Four Coins to a Glass -Second Version
The Traveling Centavos
Miracle Coins to the Pocket - Glenn Harrison
IX Coin Classics: 34 Tricks
Coin Through a Ring (2 methods)
Silver or Copper Extraction (3 methods)
Copper Penetration
The Expansion of Texture--Expanded!
The Gadabout Coins
The Three Coin Trick (3 methods)
The Bent Penny
Silver Extraction
The Ghost of a Coin (2 methods)
Coins Through the Table (4 versions)
Magical Filtration of Four Half Dollars
The Sympathetic Coins (several versions)
The Coin Roll
The Downs Coin Star
Roll Down Flourish with Four Coins
Downs Eureka Pass
"Eureka" Routine
Rattle Box Routine
Thieves and Sheep
Just Pretend
The Free and Unlimited Coinage of Silver
Coins and Cards
X Coin Boxes
The Okito Coin Box
Coins Through Box and the Hand
Okito Box, Coin and Handkerchief
Routine with an Okito Coin Box and a Silk
Silver to Copper with the Okito Coin Box
The Half Dollars and the Okito Box
The George Boston Combination Coin Box
Copper and Silver Transposition with Combination Coin Box
The German Coin Box
The Paul Fox Coin Boxes (and 3 tricks therewith)
XI Trick Coin Trickery: 27 Tricks
Squeeze Play
Jimmy Valentine Picks a Lock
Money Paper
Almost a Transposition
The Homing Coins
The Circus Trick
The 16¢ Trick
85¢ Through the Table
Copper and Silver Transposition (4 methods)
Presto Chango
The Inferior Coin
Thieves and Sheep
In and Out
Up Their Sleeve
Buddah's Coin
The Stack of Quarters (2 versions)
The Hook Coin
The Magnet
Sundry Gimicked Coins and Tricks Therewith
XII Shell and Folding Half: 18 Tricks
The Shell Half
Mystery with a Half Shell
How to Make Money
Three Questions
Coin Through a Glass
Perfected Coin Through Handkerchief
25¢ and 50¢ Transposition
The Peregrinating Halves
Coins Through the Table
The Protean Coin
The Sympathetic Coins
The Modern Miser
The Folding Half
The Half Dollar in the Bottle (2 versions)
The Magic Mint
Biting a Piece From a Coin (2 versions)
Coin Through a Card
XIII Stage Coin Magic: 5 Tricks
A Comedy Coin Routine
Coin in the Banana
Coin in Ball of Wool and Nest of Boxes
Flight Three
XIV The Miser's Dream: Robert-Houdin,
Downs, Harrison, Whitford
Versions of Robert-Houdin, T. Nelson Downs, et al.
Glenn Harrison Version
M.S. Whitford Version
A Miser's Dream Routine
Perpetual Coins
XV The Stanley Collins Section
T. Nelson Downs
William J. Hilliar
L'Homme Masqué
Allan Shaw
Owen Clark
Charles Morritt--The Purse Trick
Three Coin Monte
The Jumping Sixpence
The Esscee Half Crown and Wafers Trick
Two Heads and a Tail
The Esscee Front and Back Manipulation
XVI Routines: 18 Routined Coin Acts
Routine No.1 With a Single Coin
Routine No.2 With a Single Coin
Routine No.3 With a Single Coin
Routine No.4
Routine No.5
Routine No.6
Routine No.7
Routine No.8
Routine No.9
Routine No.10
Routine No.11
Routine No.12
Routine No.13
Routine No.14 Milton Kort
Routine No.15 Too Many Coins-- Milton Kort
Routine No.16 Rolland Hamblen
Routine No.17 Specious Specie-- J.G. Thompson, Jr. (in 2 Parts)