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sponge_balls @misc

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====== Sponge Balls ====== Frances Marshall, in //The Magic Dealer//, Vol. 2 No. 5, c. 1982, states that Jack Strothers invented sponge balls and the sponge rabbits, and that Martin Gardner should be credited with the commercial sponge ball routine that is the foundation of what is pr

sponge_rabbits @misc

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====== Sponge Rabbits ====== Frances Marshall, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14214/The+Success+B... edits Jack Strothers as the first to cut and sell sponge rubber in the form of little rabbits. In //Magic... (Sommer) invented the idea behind the Multiplying Sponge Rabbits, by marketing a trick in 1930 called "The... n is commonly credited with the later multiplying sponge-rabbit variation, which he marketed c. June 1941

pop-up_move @misc

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In 1936, Laurie Ireland published a variant with sponge balls that capitalized on their ability to compre... ss and expand. See "Ireland's Method of the Three Sponge Ball Trick" in //Ireland's 1936 Year Book//, p. 1

the_weeping_coin @coin

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+Houdin/108|90]], ascribes the method to a hidden sponge or a bladder in the sleeve. This rather obvious m

multiplying_cigars_and_bananas @misc

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these ideas by adapting the Hunter production to sponge bananas, c. early 1980s, in his marketed trick "I

sanada_gimmick @misc

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g fingers. Small, compressible objects, such as a sponge ball or silk, can be hidden behind this. Much the