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The Origins of Wonder

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dice:dice_in_matchbox_force [2014/02/19 01:14] tylerwilsondice:dice_in_matchbox_force [2022/10/27 01:18] (current) – Added details to Bagshawe citation. stephenminch
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-The idea of placing dice into a matchbox of a size that allows them to rattle but not to turn appears in "The X-Ray Trick" by J. Whitehead in Edward Bagshawe's //Magical Monthly//, Aug. 1925. The method in which the matchbox drawer is secretly divided, with a pair of loose dice on one end and a pair of fixed dice on the other, was described by U. F. Grant in his "Dice and Match Box Mystery" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38575/The+Sphinx/36|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 28 No. 8, Oct. 1929, p. 308.+The idea of placing dice into a matchbox of a size that allows them to rattle but not to turn appears in "The X-Ray Trick" by J. Whitehead in Edward Bagshawe's //Magical Monthly//, Vol. 2 No. 11, Aug. 1925, p. 217. The method in which the matchbox drawer is secretly divided, with a pair of loose dice on one end and a pair of fixed dice on the other, was described by U. F. Grant in his "Dice and Match Box Mystery" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38575/The+Sphinx/36|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 28 No. 8, Oct. 1929, p. 308.
  
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