Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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 Published descriptions of the rear thumb palm prior to Shortt's, although not preceding his dating of the sleight, are found in Carl Willmann's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10634/Die+Zauberwelt/183-184|Der Zauberwelt]]//, Vol. 5 No. 12, Dec. 1899, p. 183, where it is credited to Dr. Avon (Arthur Kollmann); T. Nelson Downs's //Modern Coin Manipulation//, 1900, pp. [[http://askalexander.org/display/18111/Modern+Coin+Manipulation/49|43]] and [[http://askalexander.org/display/18111/Modern+Coin+Manipulation/62|56]]; //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16184/Mahatma+Vol+4+No+01/4|Mahatma]]//, Vol. 4 No. 1, July 1900, p. 380; and in Ellis Stanyon's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16596/Stanyon+s+Magic+Vol+01+No+01/3|Magic]]//, Vol. 1 No. 1, Oct. 1900, p. 3. (In the Mahatma article, the source of the sleight is stated to have come from Willmann.) Published descriptions of the rear thumb palm prior to Shortt's, although not preceding his dating of the sleight, are found in Carl Willmann's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10634/Die+Zauberwelt/183-184|Der Zauberwelt]]//, Vol. 5 No. 12, Dec. 1899, p. 183, where it is credited to Dr. Avon (Arthur Kollmann); T. Nelson Downs's //Modern Coin Manipulation//, 1900, pp. [[http://askalexander.org/display/18111/Modern+Coin+Manipulation/49|43]] and [[http://askalexander.org/display/18111/Modern+Coin+Manipulation/62|56]]; //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16184/Mahatma+Vol+4+No+01/4|Mahatma]]//, Vol. 4 No. 1, July 1900, p. 380; and in Ellis Stanyon's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16596/Stanyon+s+Magic+Vol+01+No+01/3|Magic]]//, Vol. 1 No. 1, Oct. 1900, p. 3. (In the Mahatma article, the source of the sleight is stated to have come from Willmann.)
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 +However, apparently preceding all this came J. N. Hofzinser, who is said by Ottokar Fischer to have used the rear thumb palm in his routines "The Training of Money" and "Vision of a Madman" (Miser's Dream) in the mid-1800s. See Fischer's //[[https://askalexander.org/display/14886/Zauberk+nste/56|Zauberkünste]]//, 1942 (posthumously published), p. 40.
  
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