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The Origins of Wonder

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 This latex paint formula was invented by Judges Charles W. Fricke and Caryl Fleming, and marketed by Fleming in 1937. However, the idea of using rub-off pips is very old and is described in early conjuring texts. The original form of the principle involved cutting out a pip from one card and sticking it onto another, making a four appear to be a five, or an eight a nine, for example. When the card was turned face down, the magician would steal the additional pip away to effect a change. This was published in Horatio Galasso's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13226/Gibeci+re/61|Giochi  di carte bellissimi de regola, e di memoria]]//, 1593, p. 61 of the Pieper translation. This book was translated and published in //Gibecière//, Vol. 2 No. 2, Summer 2007, p. 15-150. This latex paint formula was invented by Judges Charles W. Fricke and Caryl Fleming, and marketed by Fleming in 1937. However, the idea of using rub-off pips is very old and is described in early conjuring texts. The original form of the principle involved cutting out a pip from one card and sticking it onto another, making a four appear to be a five, or an eight a nine, for example. When the card was turned face down, the magician would steal the additional pip away to effect a change. This was published in Horatio Galasso's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13226/Gibeci+re/61|Giochi  di carte bellissimi de regola, e di memoria]]//, 1593, p. 61 of the Pieper translation. This book was translated and published in //Gibecière//, Vol. 2 No. 2, Summer 2007, p. 15-150.
  
-The transition to an ink- or powder-based imposter appeared to take place in the 18th century. Its use at the gaming table appeared in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/36270/Gibeci+re/107-110|L’Antidote ou le contrepoison des chevaliers d’industrie]]//, 1768, p. 107 of the Pieper translation. This book was translated in //Gibecière//, Vol. 7 No. 2, Summer 2012, p. 60-175. It later appeared in the conjuring literature within Giuseppe Pinetti's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10258/Amusemens+Physiques+et+Differentes+Experiences+Divertissanes+1784/19|Physical Amusements and Diverting Experiments]]//, 1784, p. 20.+The transition to a powder-and-soap-based imposter appears to have take place in the eighteenth century. Its use at the gaming table appeared in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/36270/Gibeci+re/107-110|L’Antidote ou le contrepoison des chevaliers d’industrie]]//, 1768, p. 107 of the Pieper translation. This book was translated in //Gibecière//, Vol. 7 No. 2, Summer 2012, p. 60-175. It later appeared in conjuring literature in Giuseppe Pinetti's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10258/Amusemens+Physiques+et+Differentes+Experiences+Divertissanes+1784/19|Physical Amusements and Diverting Experiments]]//, 1784, p. 20.
  
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