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Magic Inventors In writing articles for The Wizards' Journal, I try to credit magic inventors when they are known. This list of rope magic inventors is compiled from Volume 1 of Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks, compiled by Stewart James and published by Abbott's Magic Novelty Co., Colon MI. |
Abbott's Encyclopedia Volume 1 |
Stewart James' Encyclopedia 2005 |
| Knots | Effect | Page |
| G.W. Hunter | G.W. Hunter's Puzzle Knot | 17 |
| Adolph Ferber | Spectre Tie | 25 |
| Ralph Hull | Ralph Hull's Famous Vanishing Knot | 27 |
| Chefalo | Chefalo's Vanishing Knot | 30 |
| G.W. Hunter | The Magic Shoe Laces | 31 |
| Ralph Hull | Presentation for The Magic Shoe Laces | 31 |
| John Braun | Combination Knot | 34 |
| Charles T. Jordan | C.T. Jordan's Mystifying Knot | |
| Penetrations (Two Ropes) | ||
| Henry Venable | Venable's Improved Ropes Through Neck | 42 |
| Stanley Collins | Stanley Collins' New Ropes and Rings Release | 45 |
| Relue | Relue's Ropes and Cutps | 48 |
| Ottokar Fischer | Oriental or Simplicity Rope Release | 48 |
| A.C. Thompson | Cloth Snap Rope Gimmicks | 49 |
| Adolph Ferber | Mimi Cords | 50 |
| Penetrations (One Rope) | ||
| Nevil Maskelyne | Nevel Maskelyne's Leg Tie | 57 |
| Ishida Tenkai | Rope Through Neck | 58 |
| Oscar S. Teale | Subterfuge for the Puzzling Ring On Rope | 68 |
| Slater | Slater's Ring on Rope | 70 |
| Edward Smith | Edward Smith's Rope and Ring Trick | 72 |
| Charles Leedy | Charles Leedy's Ropo Ringo | 77 |
| Charles T. Jordan | Charles T. Jordan's Psychic Ring Release | 78 |
| Eddie Joseph | Eddie Joseph's Ringed | 80 |
| Graham Adams | Graham Adams' Rope and Ring Experiment | 82 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's Witch's Broom | 86 |
| Cut and Restored Cord (String) | ||
| Harry Kellar | The Famous Kellar String Trick | 91 |
| Karl Germain | Karl Germain's String Restoration | 93 |
| Joe Berg | Joe Berg's Japanese Paper String Restoration | 94 |
| Eddie Joseph | Eddie Joseph's Restored String | 103 |
| Ovette | Ovette's Supreme String Mystery | 105 |
| Louis F. Christianer | Louis F. Christianer's Favorite String Trick | 106 |
| S.B. Blodgett | S.B. Blodgett's Double Restoration | 109 |
| William Larsen & T. Page Wright | Package Cord Mystery | 111 |
| Servais Le-Roy | Le-Roy's Hindoo Yarn Mystery | 113 |
| Ellis Stanyon | Ellis Stanyon's String Restoration | 113 |
| T. Page Wright | T. Page Wright's String Restoration Variation | 114 |
| Rupert Slater | Rupert Slater's String Restoration Variation | 115 |
| Joseph Kolar | Joseph Kolar's (Soda) Straw and String Trick | 118 |
| Nelson Hahne | Nelson Hahne's Version of the Straw and String Trick | 121 |
| George Wright | George Wright's Version of the Straw and String Trick | 123 |
| Floyd Thayer | Floyd Thayer's Wizzo | 123 |
| William Larsen & T. Page Wright | Restoring The String | 126 |
| Cut and Restored Rope (Impromptu) | ||
| Bluey-Bluey | Bluey-Bluey's Cut and Restored Rope Method | 131 |
| Eric Impey | Eric Impey's Impromptu Cut and Restored Rope Method | 132 |
| Dr. Ervin | Dr. Ervin's Rope Restoration | 134 |
| Harold Sterling | The Short and the Long Rope Mystery | 136 |
| R.W. Hull | R.W. Hull's Stretching Rope | 143 |
| S.H. Sharpe | S.H. Sharpe's A Rope Repaired | 149 |
| John Goodrum | John Goodrum's Sleight of Hand Method | 151 |
| Graham Adams | Graham Adams' Cut and Restored Rope | 152 |
| Fernand Verheyden | Fernand Verheyden's Method | 154 |
| Harlan Tarbell | Harlan Tarbell's "Many-Cut" Rope Mystery | 157 |
| William Larsen & T. Page Wright | Zenith Rope Restoration (Method Two) | 160 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's 1933 Rope Trick | 162 |
| Carl Brema | Carl Brema's Knotted Rope | 164 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's Sleight of Hand Rope Trick | 165 |
| Heisey | Heisey's Hindu Rope Trick | 169 |
| Cut and Restored Rope (Unprepared Rope) | ||
| William Larsen & T. Page Wright | Simplicity Rope Restoration | 179 |
| William Larsen & T. Page Wright | Tug O' War | 182 |
| William Larsen & T. Page Wright | Vinculum | 182 |
| William Larsen & T. Page Wright | Gloved Deception | 184 |
| William Larsen & T. Page Wright | Restoring The Rope | 185 |
| Bert Douglas | Magic Skipping Rope | 188 |
| R.M. Jamison | R.M. Jamison's Severed Rope | 195 |
| Baffles Brush | Baffleso! | 197 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's Stage Rope Restoration | 200 |
| Scotty Lang | Scotty Lang's Sucker Rope Trick | 201 |
| William Larsen & T. Page Wright | The L.W. Lost Chord | 204 |
| Will Brema | Will Brema's Convincing Rope Trick | 206 |
| Winston Freer | The Aladdin Oriental Gimmick | 212 |
| K.W. Liddle | K.W. Liddle's Phenomenal Rope Trick | 215 |
| William Larsen & T. Page Wright | L.W. Chased | 218 |
| Cut and Restored Rope (Prepared Rope) | ||
| William Larsen & T. Page Wright | L.W. Marking The Center | 223 |
| R.W. Hull | R.W. Hull's Marked Rope and the Thumb Tack | 224 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's Super Rope Trick | 232 |
| Waldo Clarke | Waldo Clarke's Little Rhody Rope Trick | 234 |
| Harlan Tarbell | The Tarbell Rope Mystery | 242 |
| Harlan Tarbell | Tarbell Rope Gimmicks | 246 |
| Minocher Nowroji | Minocher Nowroji's Restoration | 272 |
| Eldon Nichols | Nu-Cut Rope Trick | 275 |
| Doc Nixon | Doc Nixon's Toothpick Rope Gimmicks | 277 |
| Bert Douglas | Additional Encore Rope Methods | 279 |
| Ned Ashbury | Encore Rope Variation | 283 |
| Dr. Clyde Cairy | Dr. Clyde Cairy's Follow Me Rope Routine | 284 |
| S. Reilly | S. Reilly's Rope Trick | 289 |
| Eddie Clever | Eddie Clever's Triple Cut Rope Routine | 298 |
| William Larsen & T. Page Wright | The L.W. Great Divide | 303 |
| Gessing-Gordon | The Gessing-Gordon Rope Trick | 305 |
| Harry Bjorklund | The Slow Motion Restoration | 306 |
| Burling Hull | Burling Hull's "Miracle" Rope Restoration | 315 |
| Caryl S. Fleming | Fleming's Liquid Rope Gimmick | 327 |
| William Larsen & T. Page Wright | L.W. Double Restoration | 335 |
| William Larsen & T. Page Wright | The L.W. Zenith Rope Restoration | 337 |
| Winston Freer | Doubled Rope Gimmick | 341 |
| Miscellaneous Rope Tricks | ||
| Seymour Davis | Sinbad's Rope | 355 |
| H. Berson | H. Berson's Miracle Rope Growth | 356 |
| Winston Freer | Winston Freer's Alagen Rope | 358 |
| Winston Freer | Winston Freer's Master Muscle | 359 |
| Winston Freer | Winston Freer's "Tug Of War" Rope | 360 |
| John Lippy, Jr. | The Hypnotized Rope | 361 |
| Grant & Mallow | Grant & Mallow's Ropes of Bengai | 362 |
| Herman Hanson | Herman Hanson's Climax Rope Trick | 366 |
| Percy Abbott | Percy Abbott's "Easy-Do" Rope Trick | 370 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's Amazing Rope Trick | 371 |
| The Hindoo Rope Trick | ||
| Rupert Slater | Rupert Slater's Moth and Rope | 377 |
| Sid Lorraine | The Pocket Hindoo Rope Trick | 381 |
| Collins Pentz | The Vanishing Boy | 382 |
| Joseph Dunninger | Dunninger's East Indian Rope Trick | 385 |
| W.T. Lawhead | Svengali's Rope Climbing Trick of India | 388 |
| J.K. Wright | J.K. Wright's Indian Rope Trick | 391 |
| David Devant | David Devant's Hindoo Rope Trick | 394 |
Abbott's Encyclopedia Volume 1 |
Stewart James' Encyclopedia 2005 |