Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

User Tools

Site Tools

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Both sides previous revisionPrevious revision
cards:photographic_coins [2018/10/07 11:49] – House cleaning. tylerwilsoncards:photographic_coins [2022/10/27 01:24] (current) – Added page number for "The Young Conjurer" citation. stephenminch
Line 9: Line 9:
 The existence of this earlier method is also implied in the full title on Baker's instruction sheet: "The Al Baker Method of Performing the Coin and Card Trick". The method Baker referred to is one marketed by A. W. Gamage, Ltd. in 1911. Presumably, it was Gamage's invention, as it was titled "The 'A.W.G.' Card and Coin Effect" in the ads appearing in Will Goldston's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10715/The+magician+monthly/22|The Magician Monthly]]//. The first ad appeared in the Jan. 1911 issue, Vol. 2 No. 7, p. 22. The ad copy ran: "A selected Card is returned to the pack and shuffled. A Penny is placed on the table, then covered with the pack. Upon the person naming the chosen Cards [//sic//], the pack is removed, when a miniature duplicate of the card is seen on the penny. JUST OUT. CAN ONLY BE OBTAINED OF US." The existence of this earlier method is also implied in the full title on Baker's instruction sheet: "The Al Baker Method of Performing the Coin and Card Trick". The method Baker referred to is one marketed by A. W. Gamage, Ltd. in 1911. Presumably, it was Gamage's invention, as it was titled "The 'A.W.G.' Card and Coin Effect" in the ads appearing in Will Goldston's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10715/The+magician+monthly/22|The Magician Monthly]]//. The first ad appeared in the Jan. 1911 issue, Vol. 2 No. 7, p. 22. The ad copy ran: "A selected Card is returned to the pack and shuffled. A Penny is placed on the table, then covered with the pack. Upon the person naming the chosen Cards [//sic//], the pack is removed, when a miniature duplicate of the card is seen on the penny. JUST OUT. CAN ONLY BE OBTAINED OF US."
  
-Roughly a year later, Goldston included an explanation of the trick in his //The Young Conjurer, Part Two//, 1912, maintaining its marketed title. In this early version, a blank piece of paper is not used. The shelled coin is employed simply to produce a miniature card. For this method, the shelled coin is covered with the deck instead of a second coin. The shell carries two tiny pinpoints on its face. When the deck is pressed down on the shelled coin, the shell is picked up, having impaled the bottom card or cards of the pack.+Roughly a year later, Goldston included an explanation of the trick in his //The Young Conjurer, Vol. Two//, 1912 (first ed. only), p. 12, maintaining its marketed title. In this early version, a blank piece of paper is not used. The shelled coin is employed simply to produce a miniature card. For this method, the shelled coin is covered with the deck instead of a second coin. The shell carries two tiny pinpoints on its face. When the deck is pressed down on the shelled coin, the shell is picked up, having impaled the bottom card or cards of the pack.
  
 It was only a matter of time before magicians and magic dealers would realize that a temporary adhesive -- "sticky stuff", as Al Baker called it in his 1931 ad: "no hooks, pins or sticky stuff on coins" -- could be substituted for pins, making the gimmick easier to make and less destructive to the cards. It was only a matter of time before magicians and magic dealers would realize that a temporary adhesive -- "sticky stuff", as Al Baker called it in his 1931 ad: "no hooks, pins or sticky stuff on coins" -- could be substituted for pins, making the gimmick easier to make and less destructive to the cards.

Page Tools

Except where otherwise noted, content on this wiki is licensed under the following license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Imprint & Privacy Policy