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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 Stewart James' Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks, compiled by Stewart James, edited and copyright © 2005 by Gabe Fajuri of Squash Publishing and sold by Abbott's Magic Novelty Co., Colon MI. Many of the tricks from the previous version of Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks are the same, but arranged differently and with different page numbers. |
Abbott's Encyclopedia Volume 1 |
Stewart James' Encyclopedia 2005 |
| Inventor | Effect | Page |
| Cut and Restored Cord (String) | ||
| Harry Kellar | The Famous Kellar String Trick | 3 |
| Karl Germain | Karl Germain's String Restoration | 3 |
| Joe Berg | Joe Berg's Japanese Paper String Restoration | 4 |
| Eddie Joseph | Eddie Joseph's Restored String | 8 |
| Ovette | Ovette's Supreme String Mystery | 9 |
| Louis F. Christianer | Louis F. Christianer's Favorite String Trick | 9 |
| S.B. Blodgett | S.B. Blodgett's Double Restoration | 11 |
| T. Page Wright & William Larsen | Package Cord Mystery | 12 |
| Servais Le-Roy | Le-Roy's Hindoo Yarn Mystery | 12 |
| Ellis Stanyon | Ellis Stanyon's String Restoration | 13 |
| T. Page Wright | T. Page Wright's String Restoration Variation | 13 |
| Rupert Slater | Rupert Slater's String Restoration Variation | 14 |
| Joseph Kolar | Joseph Kolar's (Soda) Straw and String Trick | 15 |
| Nelson Hahne | Nelson Hahne's Version of the Straw and String Trick | 17 |
| George Wright | George Wright's Version of the Straw and String Trick | 17 |
| Floyd Thayer | Floyd Thayer's Wizzo | 17 |
| T. Page Wright & William Larsen | Restoring The String | 18 |
| Cut and Restored Rope (Impromptu) | ||
| Bluey-Bluey | Bluey-Bluey's Cut and Restored Rope Method | 24 |
| Eric Impey | Eric Impey's Impromptu Cut and Restored Rope Method | 24 |
| Dr. Ervin | Dr. Ervin's Rope Restoration | 25 |
| Harold Sterling | The Short and the Long Rope Mystery | 26 |
| R.W. Hull | R.W. Hull's Stretching Rope | 29 |
| S.H. Sharpe | S.H. Sharpe's A Rope Repaired | 32 |
| John Goodrum | John Goodrum's Sleight of Hand Method | 33 |
| Graham Adams | Graham Adams' Cut and Restored Rope | 33 |
| Fernand Verheyden | Fernand Verheyden's Method | 35 |
| Harlan Tarbell | Harlan Tarbell's "Many-Cut" Rope Mystery | 36 |
| T. Page Wright & William Larsen | Zenith Rope Restoration (Method Two) | 38 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's 1933 Rope Trick | 38 |
| Carl Brema | Carl Brema's Knotted Rope | 39 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's Sleight of Hand Rope Trick | 40 |
| Heisey | Heisey's Hindu Rope Trick | 42 |
| Arthur Punnar | Arthur Punnar's Perfected Restored Rope | 44 |
| Percy Abbott | Abbott's No-Knot Restored Rope | 45 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's Perfect Cut Rope Trick | 47 |
| Eddie Joseph | Chain of Penitence | 47 |
| R.C. Buff | R.C. Buff's Together Again | 49 |
| Eddie Joseph | The Two-Way Cut | 50 |
| Cut and Restored Rope (Prepared Rope) | ||
| T. Page Wright & William Larsen | Marking The Center | 57 |
| R.W. Hull | R.W. Hull's Marked Rope and the Thumb Tack | 57 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's Super Rope Trick | 61 |
| Waldo Clarke | Waldo Clarke's Little Rhody Rope Trick | 62 |
| Harlan Tarbell | The Tarbell Rope Mystery | 65 |
| Harlan Tarbell | Tarbell Rope Gimmicks | 67 |
| Minocher Nowroji | Minocher Nowroji's Restoration | 78 |
| Eldon Nichols | Nu-Cut Rope Trick | 79 |
| Doc Nixon | Doc Nixon's Toothpick Rope Gimmicks | 80 |
| Bert Douglas | Additional Encore Rope Methods | 81 |
| Ned Ashbury | Encore Rope Variation | 83 |
| Dr. Clyde Cairy | Dr. Clyde Cairy's Follow Me Rope Routine | 84 |
| Syl Reilly | S. Reilly's Rope Trick | 86 |
| Eddie Clever | Eddie Clever's Triple Cut Rope Routine | 89 |
| T. Page Wright & William Larsen | The L.W. Great Divide | 91 |
| Gessing-Gordon | The Gessing-Gordon Rope Trick | 92 |
| Harry Bjorklund | The Slow Motion Restoration | 92 |
| Burling Hull | Burling Hull's "Miracle" Rope Restoration | 96 |
| Caryl S. Fleming | Fleming's Liquid Rope Gimmick | 101 |
| T. Page Wright & William Larsen | L.W. Double Restoration | 105 |
| T. Page Wright & William Larsen | The L.W. Zenith Rope Restoration | 105 |
| Winston Freer | Doubled Rope Gimmick (Maxam Triple Cut Rope Trick) | 107 |
| Eddie Joseph | Sanoj Cut and Restored Rope | 110 |
| Carlos | Carlos EZ-2-DO Rope Trick | 111 |
| Joseph Fries | Joseph Fries' A Sailor's Rope | 112 |
| John Giordmaine | John Giordmaine's Comedy Rope Trick | 113 |
| R.W. Hull | R.W. Hull's Cut and Restored Rope | 114 |
| John Thornton | John Thornton's Shaggy Dog Panama | 115 |
| William Boylston | William Boylston's Restored Rope Routine | 117 |
| Ken Allen | If You Like It | 118 |
| P.C. Sorcar | P.C. Sorcar's Restored Again | 119 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's Spectator Rope Trick | 120 |
| Larry Becker | Larry Becker's Cut and Restored Rope | 121 |
| Winston Freer | Winston Freer's "54" Rope Trick | 123 |
| Percy Abbott | Abbott's Four-To-Two Rope Trick | 125 |
| Percy Abbott | Abbott's Incredible Rope | 127 |
| Bill Neff | Neff's Miracle Rope | 132 |
| Rev. Robert E. Olson | Olson's Cut and Restored Rope | 137 |
| Robert Harbin | Full Hank Restoration | 138 |
| Mickey O'Malley and Frank Garcia | Kord-O-Staski | 139 |
| Nyle Rothenback | Pajamarama | 140 |
| Allan Lambie | Chinese Cone and Rope Mystery | 142 |
| Cut and Restored Rope (Unprepared Rope) | ||
| T. Page Wright & William Larsen | Simplicity Rope Restoration | 147 |
| T. Page Wright & William Larsen | Tug O' War | 148 |
| T. Page Wright & William Larsen | Vinculum | 148 |
| T. Page Wright & William Larsen | Gloved Deception | 149 |
| T. Page Wright & William Larsen | Restoring The Rope | 149 |
| Bert Douglas | Magic Skipping Rope | 151 |
| R.M. Jamison | R.M. Jamison's Severed Rope | 154 |
| Baffles Brush | Baffleso! | 155 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's Stage Rope Restoration | 156 |
| Scotty Lang | Scotty Lang's Sucker Rope Trick | 157 |
| T. Page Wright & William Larsen | The L.W. Lost Chord | 158 |
| Will Brema | Will Brema's Convincing Rope Trick | 159 |
| Winston Freer | The Aladdin Oriental Gimmick | 161 |
| K.W. Liddle | K.W. Liddle's Phenomenal Rope Trick | 164 |
| T. Page Wright & William Larsen | L.W. Chased | 165 |
| Martin Gardner | Martin Gardner's Scissor Cut No. One | 165 |
| Martin Gardner | Martin Gardner's Scissor Cut No. Two | 166 |
| Dr. Wiener | Not At All | 167 |
| Percy Abbott | Abbott's Double Circle Rope Mystery | 168 |
| William Boylston | Clean Cut | 169 |
| Tom Fitzgerald | Cut and Restored Rope to Cigarette | 170 |
| Clayson Rawson | Knots of Flame | 172 |
| Ren Fetzer | Cravat Capers | 173 |
| Glenn Gravatt | Extratour | 174 |
| Tom Sellers | Tom Sellers Cut and Restored Rope | 177 |
| The Hindoo Rope Trick | ||
| Rupert Slater | Rupert Slater's Moth and Rope | 183 |
| Sid Lorraine | The Pocket Hindoo Rope Trick | 184 |
| Collins Pentz | The Vanishing Boy | 185 |
| Joseph Dunninger | Dunninger's East Indian Rope Trick | 186 |
| W.T. Lawhead | Svengali's Rope Climbing Trick of India | 187 |
| J.K. Wright | J.K. Wright's Indian Rope Trick | 189 |
| David Devant | David Devant's Hindoo Rope Trick | 190 |
| Felix Korim | Korim's East Indian Rope Trick | 193 |
| Knots | ||
| G.W. Hunter | G.W. Hunter's Puzzle Knot | 199 |
| Adolph Ferber | Spectre Tie | 202 |
| Ralph Hull | Ralph Hull's Famous Vanishing Knot | 203 |
| Chefalo | Chefalo's Vanishing Knot | 205 |
| G.W. Hunter | The Magic Shoe Laces | 205 |
| Ralph Hull | Presentation for The Magic Shoe Laces | 205 |
| John Braun | Combination Knot | 206 |
| Charles T. Jordan | C.T. Jordan's Mystifying Knot | 207 |
| C.D. Oeloff (Cordini) | Cordini's Double Knot | 208 |
| Jack Ketch | Jack Ketch's Nonsense Knot | 209 |
| Tan Hock Chuan | Tan Hock Chuan's Appearing Knot | 210 |
| Dr. Joseph H. Fries | The Fastest Knot on Record | 210 |
| Martin Gardner | Martin Gardner's Magic Knot | 211 |
| Martin Gardner | Martin Gardner's Chefalo Release | 211 |
| Martin Gardner | Martin Gardner's Impossible Knot | 211 |
| Sanders | Sander's Phantom Knot | 212 |
| Dr. Joseph H. Fries | The Illusive Knot | 212 |
| Lingley | Lingley's Swing-a-way Knot | 213 |
| Gerald Loe | Loe's Chefalo Developments | 213 |
| Gerald Loe | Loe's Shoe Lace Variations | 215 |
| Joseph Keen | Joseph Keen's Slip Knot | 217 |
| Tom Fitzgerald | Take It Off | 217 |
| Enrique Solanas | The African Knot | 219 |
| Gene Grant | Phantini Vanishing Knot | 220 |
| George Kaplan | Kaplan's Cut and Restored Rope Knot | 220 |
| Lingley | Lingley's Omega Square Knot | 221 |
| Lingley | Lingley's Alpha Square Knot | 222 |
| Charles Harrison | Perfect False Knot | 222 |
| John Penrose | Steal of the Red Knot | 224 |
| Douglas Hood | The Climbing Knot | 224 |
| W. Hutton Scobie | The Scobie Knot | 226 |
| Syd The Sorcerer | Knottery | 226 |
| Hamilton | Hamilton's Idea | 227 |
| Scurti | Scurti's Jumping Knot | 228 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's Spirit Knots | 228 |
| Joe Cossari | Naughty Knot | 229 |
| Tenkai Ishida | The Knot of Foam | 229 |
| Stewart James | Alterknot Way | 231 |
| Alan Lambie | Perfect Vanish of Several Knots | 231 |
| Tom Sellers | Knot Monte | 232 |
| Tom Sellers | A Neat Tangle | 233 |
| Miscellaneous Rope Tricks | ||
| Seymour Davis | Sinbad's Rope | 239 |
| H. Berson | H. Berson's Miracle Rope Growth | 240 |
| Winston Freer | Winston Freer's Alagen Rope | 241 |
| Winston Freer | Winston Freer's Master Muscle | 241 |
| Winston Freer | Winston Freer's "Tug Of War" Rope | 241 |
| John Lippy, Jr. | The Hypnotized Rope | 242 |
| Grant & Maillow | Grant & Maillow's Ropes of Bengai | 242 |
| Herman Hanson | Herman Hanson's Climax Rope Trick | 244 |
| Percy Abbott | Percy Abbott's "Easy-Do" Rope Trick | 246 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's Amazing Rope Trick | 246 |
| Clare Cummings and Bob Lewis | The Idiot Rope Trick | 248 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's Comedy Rope Trick | 249 |
| Ten-Ichi & Bruce Cole | Thumb Tie Extraordinary | 251 |
| Percy Abbott | Abbott's Slick Tie | 252 |
| Larry Becker | Larry Becker's Knot Effect | 253 |
| Tan Hock Chuan | Tan Hock Chuan's Knot Effect | 254 |
| Percy Abbott | Abbott's Handkerchief and Rope Penetration | 255 |
| Mystic Craig | Spooky Rope | 257 |
| Percy Abbott | Abott's Long Smoke | 257 |
| Burton Mark | Burton Mark's Trunk Substitution | 258 |
| Roy Shrimplin | Krazy Kube | 259 |
| Percy Abbott | Abbott's Routine for the Wrist Tie Supreme | 260 |
| Percy Abbott | Abbott's Rod Tie | 263 |
| Eddie Joseph | The Thumb Tie | 265 |
| Eddie Joseph | Unaccomodating Rope | 266 |
| Eddie Joseph | Secret Ingress | 269 |
| Eddie Joseph | Trapped in Space | 272 |
| Clyde F. Cairy | Double-Barreled Barrel Head | 274 |
| U.F. Grant | Poor Man's Monkey Bar | 275 |
| Lu Brent | Watch on the Rope | 276 |
| Al Aldini | Nu Way Linking Ropes | 277 |
| George DeLaney | Prayer Vase Routine | 278 |
| Dr. Morton Smith | The Card and The Rope | 279 |
| Robert Harbin | Rope Holder | 279 |
| Robert Harbin | Added Enchantment | 280 |
| Robert Harbin | West Meets East | 280 |
| Bob Taylor | Ring Transformation | 282 |
| Jim Kahlert | A Surprise Ending | 284 |
| C. James Rainho | Tied at the Stake Illusion | 285 |
| Billy Bell | Dummy Cigarette | 287 |
| Yasunaga Matsuura | Tokkuri and Rope | 287 |
| Stewart James | Sideology | 288 |
| Stewart James | Tu-Be or Knot Tu-Be | 289 |
| Stewart James | Switch Hitcher | 289 |
| Stewart James | Wedding Accessories | 290 |
| Stewart James | Cubestrick | 292 |
| Stewart James | Monte Zooma | 293 |
| Glenn Gravatt | Rope Appear | 294 |
| Glenn Gravatt | Witness For The Prosecution | 294 |
| Glenn Gravatt | Visible Silk on Rope Appearance | 295 |
| Glenn Gravatt | Flying Silk and Ropes | 296 |
| Allan Lambie | Rope Through Hank | 297 |
| Allan Lambie | Simplex Color Changing Rope | 298 |
| Allan Lambie | Vanishing Knot and Rope Penetration | 299 |
| Allan Lambie | Attention - March! | 300 |
| Allan Lambie | The Perfect Rope Stretch | 301 |
| Allan Lambie | Squirmy Wormy Rope | 302 |
| Tom Sellers | Stretching A Rope #1 | 302 |
| Tom Sellers | Stretching A Rope #2 | 303 |
| Tom Sellers | Stretching A Rope #3 | 303 |
| Tom Sellers | A Different Stretching Rope | 304 |
| Tom Sellers | Rollo | 305 |
| Penetrations (One Rope) | ||
| Nevil Maskelyne | Nevel Maskelyne's Leg Tie | 309 |
| Tenkai Ishida | Rope Through Neck | 310 |
| Oscar S. Teale | Subterfuge for the Puzzling Ring On Rope | 314 |
| Slater | Slater's Ring on Rope | 315 |
| Edward Smith | Edward Smith's Rope and Ring Trick | 316 |
| Charles Leedy | Charles Leedy's Ropo Ringo | 318 |
| Charles T. Jordan | Charles T. Jordan's Psychic Ring Release | 319 |
| Eddie Joseph | Eddie Joseph's Ringed | 320 |
| Graham Adams | Graham Adams' Rope and Ring Experiment | 320 |
| U.F. Grant | U.F. Grant's Witch's Broom | 322 |
| Jim Ryan | Rope, Ring and Rod | 324 |
| Jean Hugard | Ringing a Rope | 326 |
| Bob Hummer | Hummering | 327 |
| Jack Miller & Peter Warlock | Out of the Loop | 329 |
| Eddie Joseph | Eddie Joseph's Remarkable Release | 330 |
| Arturo | Arturo's A Ring Between | 331 |
| Lyman Allen & John Snyder, Jr. | Block-Kord | 333 |
| Peter A. McDonald | Houdini Block | 334 |
| Norman Rhodes | Post and Ropes Illusion | 336 |
| Percy Abbott | Abbott's Ribbonifty | 338 |
| Dr. Raymond Beebe | Bisect-U | 339 |
| Percy Abbott | Abbott's Uncanny Rope Mystery | 340 |
| Douglas Hood | Cutting a Lady in Halves | 341 |
| Percy Abbott | Abbott's Whirling Dervish | 342 |
| Cyro | Cyro's Super-Duper Rope Trick | 343 |
| Arturo | Check-R-X | 344 |
| Lester Lake | Octagoon | 346 |
| Joe Karson | Rope Thru Body | 347 |
| Eddie Joseph | Divorce in Zululand | 347 |
| Henry Holova | Rope and Silk Penetration | 349 |
| George Johnstone | Ring-A-Ding-Ding | 350 |
| Robert Harbin | Ringed Rope | 351 |
| Robert Harbin | Harbin's Walking Through a Rope | 352 |
| Hal Robbins | Knotted Hank Off Rope | 353 |
| Larry Becker | The Ambitious Ring | 354 |
| Hideo Kato | Through Solid | 355 |
| Paul Fox & Danny Dew | The Rope Through The Body | 356 |
| Stewart James | Betwixt | 358 |
| Stewart James | Second Class Passage | 359 |
| Stewart James | It's a Drag | 359 |
| Glenn Gravatt | Dissolving Knot and Silk Release | 360 |
| Glenn Gravatt | Visible Rope and Ring Penetration | 361 |
| Glenn Gravatt | Rope, Silk, and Bracelet Combination | 362 |
| Glenn Gravatt | Coat, Rope and Rings | 364 |
| Allan Lambie | Simple Ring From Rope | 367 |
| Allan Lambie | Perfect Rope Through Body | 368 |
| Tom Sellers | Rope and Rod | 369 |
| Tom Sellers | A Ring Release | 369 |
| Tom Sellers | A Different Ring Release | 370 |
| Tom Sellers | Rope, Rings and Hat | 371 |
| Tom Sellers | Ring and Loop | 371 |
| Tom Sellers | Rope and Ring No. 1 | 372 |
| Tom Sellers | Rope and Ring No. 2 | 372 |
| Tom Sellers | Rope and Ring No. 3 | 373 |
| Penetrations (Two Ropes) | ||
| Henry Venable | Venable's Improved Ropes Through Neck | 377 |
| Stanley Collins | Stanley Collins' New Ropes and Rings Release | 379 |
| Relue | Relue's Ropes and Cutps | 380 |
| Ottokar Fischer | Oriental or Simplicity Rope Release | 380 |
| A.C. Thompson | Cloth Snap Rope Gimmicks | 381 |
| Adolph Ferber | Mimi Cords | 381 |
| Dr. Raymond Stone | Color Wrinkle | 382 |
| Bert Douglas | Coffee and Doughnuts | 384 |
| U.F. Grant | Comedy Doughnut Trick | 385 |
| Percy Abbott | Abbott's Block-It | 387 |
| Eddie Joseph | Eddie Joseph's Lightning Escape | 388 |
| John Thornton | Off The Cuff | 389 |
| James Randi | Houdini's Grandma | 390 |
| Percy Abbott | Abbott's Thru and Thru | 391 |
| Percy Abbott | Abbott's Within The Circle | 392 |
| Paul Curry | Paul Curry's Linked | 393 |
| Elizabeth Warlock | Link Later | 394 |
| Jack Avis | Loops Entwined | 396 |
| Peter Warlock | Ringcord | 396 |
| Eddie Joseph | Space Venture | 397 |
| Eddie Joseph | Magilocks | 399 |
| Gene Gloye | Chinese-Style Pickpocket | 403 |
| Tom Sellers | Easy Ropes and Rings | 405 |
| Tom Sellers | Ropes and Ring | 407 |
| Hen Fetsch's Rope Session | ||
| Hen Fetsch | Rope Session | 411 |
| Bob Carver | Professor's Nightmare Reference | 413 |
| Hen Fetsch | Rope Stretch | 415 |
| Hen Fetsch | A Routine For Children | 416 |
| Sefalaljia | ||
| Doc Corten | Ring Mysterium | 421 |
| Stewart James | Sefalaljia | 422 |
| Stewart James | Rubber Subber | 424 |
| Stewart James | Double Ring Ceremony | 425 |
| Stewart James | Twogether | 426 |
| Stewart James | Knit Picker | 426 |
| Stewart James | Parallel | 428 |
| Stewart James | The Massecar Cabinet | 429 |
| Martin Gardner | Knot Box | 429 |
| Lewis Ganson | Roped Ring | 430 |
| Norman Houghton | Neweraljia | 432 |
Abbott's Encyclopedia Volume 1 |
Stewart James' Encyclopedia 2005 |