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paper:billet-switching_rod [2013/03/10 22:43] – link added denisbehrpaper:billet-switching_rod [2014/02/19 21:26] tylerwilson
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 ====== Billet-switching Rod ====== ====== Billet-switching Rod ======
  
-The prop is described by Sachs'in //Sleight of Hand// (1877), p. 187. There it is used to switch a half card. A needlessly more complex prop for the same purpose was proposed by George Johnson in the March 1939 issue of //[[http://askalexander.org/display/4195/Magic+Wand+Vol+28/194?pw=billet|The Magic Wand]]//, (Vol. 28No. 184, p. 154), titled "A Billet-switching Appliance". It consisted of two pieces of lath, cleft at the ends and joined by a piece of elastic in a manner that caused on of the lengths of lath, when released by the fingers, to spin end for end, switching a spectator's billet for a dummy one as the performer walked back to the stage.+The prop is described by Edwin Sachs in //Sleight of Hand//1877, p. 187. There it is used to switch a half card. A needlessly more complex prop for the same purpose was proposed by George Johnson in the March 1939 issue of //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38839/The+Magic+Wand/200|The Magic Wand]]//, Vol. 28 No. 184, Mar. 1939, p. 154, titled "A Billet-switching Appliance.It consisted of two pieces of lath, cleft at the ends and joined by a piece of elastic in a manner that caused one of the lengths of lath, when released by the fingers, to spin end for end, switching a spectator's billet for a dummy one as the performer walked back to the stage. 
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