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====== It's a Pip Paint ====== | ====== It's a Pip Paint ====== | ||
- | 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, in which pomatum (a sticky ointment) and jet were used for the same purpose. This appears in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/5309/The+Conjuror+s+Magazine+electronic+resource/62|The Conjuror's Magazine]]//, No. 1, Aug. 1791, p. 83, although it was possibly drawn from an earlier work by Joseph Pinetti or elsewhere. | + | 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. |
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+ | 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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