This trick—in which a match torn from a matchbook is lit, vanishes and reappears attached in the matchbook—was invented by Milbourne Christopher. The first version of it, in which the matches were torn out, counted and held by a spectator, was published as “Christopher's Match Stickler” in the Tarbell Course in Magic, Vol. 3, p. 63. The version in which the matches remain in the matchbook was published in Martin Gardner's “Encyclopedia of Impromptu Tricks” column in Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 12 No. 5, Oct. 1954, p. 198, #30.