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--- misc:chinese_rice_bowls [2014/04/10 11:18] – tylerwilson
+++ misc:chinese_rice_bowls [2022/10/25 18:36] (current) – Added Baker instruction-sheet citation. stephenminch
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 ====== Chinese Rice Bowls ======
-Though the trick is reported to be of oriental origin, Frank Ducrot is the inventor of the common method using a clear disk. He published his version in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/4437/Mahatma+Vol+04/78|Mahatma]]//, Vol. 4 No. 9, Mar. 1901, p. 454. Ducrot admits in the write-up that the basic trick already exists and is "ever popular." Al Baker improved the method with a rubber cover in his marketed, "Chinese Rice Bowls," 1933. Alexander Herrmann invented the double-walled "Brahman Bowls."
+Although this trick is commonly called "The Chinese Rice Bowls", it is believed to have originated in India, not China. In //[[https://askalexander.org/display/10633/Die+Zauberwelt+Vol+7/26|Die Zauberwelt]]//, Vol. 7 No. 2, Feb. 1901, p. 25), Carl Willmann describes a set of bowls fashioned after the Indian style, with one of the bowls having double walls to form a water reservoir. Willmann introduces the article with this: "[The bowls] are manufactured by the author exactly like the original, the authentic Indian vases." His wording may allow for some ambiguity, as it is not clear if the double-walled method was used in India, or simply that Willmann had imitated the shape and style of Indian bowls. However, lacking evidence to the contrary, the doubled-walled method was likely that used by Indian conjurers, and that is how Prof. Hoffmann interpreted Willmann's description when loosely "quoting" it in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/19034/Later+Magic/581|Later Magic]]// (1903, p. 557). The double-walled method eventually became known as the Brahman Rice Bowls, so-named by the Mysto Company (see //[[https://askalexander.org/display/37876/Linking+Ring+Vol+49+Issue+3/24|The Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 49 No. 3, Mar. 1969, p. 24).
+Frank Ducrot is the inventor of the now commonly used method employing a clear disk. He published his version in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/4437/Mahatma+Vol+04/78|Mahatma]]//, Vol. 4 No. 9, Mar. 1901, p. 454. Ducrot says in his write-up that the basic trick already existed and is "ever popular."
+In 1933, Al Baker came up with the method using a rubber cover in his marketed "Chinese Rice Bowls"; see //[[https://askalexander.org/display/37755/Linking+Ring/2|The Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 13 No. 2, Apr. 1933, inside front cover. The instruction sheet for the trick is reproduced in Todd Karr's //[[https://askalexander.org/display/12772/The+Secret+Ways+of+Al+Baker/575|The Secret Ways of Al Baker]]//, 2003, p. 573.
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