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--- silk:twentieth_century_silks [2022/01/22 01:16] – Added Stanyon, Devant citations, etc. stephenminch
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 ====== Twentieth Century Silks ======
-Ellis Stanyon was the first to publish a version of this effect; see his //Conjuring for Amateurs//, 1897, p. 42. Stanyon states that "This is a very surprising trick, and a favourite with the most noted prestigitateurs." One of those prestigitateurs was certainly David Devant, the actual details of whose method were eventually published in Prof. Hoffmann's //[[https://askalexander.org/display/19034/Later+Magic/327|Later Magic]]//, 1904, p. 303, where Hoffmann declares the trick Devant's invention. Hoffmann's description provides a great number of details Stanyon lacked, although Stanyon got the basics right: a switch of a set of knotted silks, and a vanish of a red silk inside a clear glass tube, effected by a Pull. Peter Warlock stood behind the Devant attribution; see his column in //The Stage//, as referenced in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/85477/Hugard+s+Magic+Monthly/9|Hugard's Magic Monthly]]//, Vol. 11 No. 10, Mar. 1954, p. 117.
+W. H. J. Shaw seems to have been the first to publish a version of this effect in English, which he titled "The Flight Through Crystals"; see his //[[https://askalexander.org/display/24735/Magic+up+to+date+or+Shaw+s+magical+instructor/23|Magic Up to Date]]//, 1896, p. 19. In the same year, Carl Willmann published his handling in the German magazine //[[https://askalexander.org/display/10638/Die+Zauberwelt/88|Die Zauberwelt]]//, Vol. 2 No. 6, June 1896, p. 88, "Das fliegende Tuch".
+Roughly a year later, Ellis Stanyon described the trick in //[[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1897-stanyon-conjuring-for-amateurs.pdf|Conjuring for Amateurs]]//, 1897, p. 42. Stanyon states that "This is a very surprising trick, and a favourite with the most noted prestigitateurs." One of those prestigitateurs was certainly David Devant, the actual details of whose method were eventually published in Prof. Hoffmann's //[[https://askalexander.org/display/19034/Later+Magic/327|Later Magic]]//, 1904, p. 303, where Hoffmann declares the trick Devant's invention. Hoffmann's description provides details that Shaw and Stanyon lacked, although they got the basics right: a switch of a set of knotted silks, and a vanish of a red silk inside a clear glass tube, effected by a Pull. Peter Warlock stood behind the Devant attribution; see his column in //The Stage//, as referenced in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/85477/Hugard+s+Magic+Monthly/9|Hugard's Magic Monthly]]//, Vol. 11 No. 10, Mar. 1954, p. 117.
 Two years before Devant's method was published, C. Lang Neil included Frank Kennard's "The Mysteriously-Joined Handkerchiefs" in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/39671/The+Modern+Conjurer+and+drawing+room+entertainer/236|Modern Conjurer]]//, 1902, p. 231. Kennard's method avoided switching the handkerchiefs by concealing one inside the hem of another. Frank Ducrot marketed essentially the same concept (a pocket-silk) as "The 20th Century Handkerchief Trick," c. 1903; see the advertisement in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/4438/Mahatma+Vol+07/79|Mahatma]]//, Vol. 7 No. 7, Jan. 1904, p. 80, which is presumably Ducrot's version.

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