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The mechanics of the Flip Stick vanish are published as “The Vanishing Ruler” in David Devant's column, Tricks for Everyone, in The Royal Magazine, Vol. 21 No. 122, Dec. 1908, p. 169. Devant later combined the serials into book form as Tricks for Everyone, 1909; see p. 15. The “Flip Stick” title came courtesy of Flip Hallema, who invented the vanish independently and composed a full original routine of vanishes and reproductions, which was included in Harry Lorayne's Tarbell Course in Magic, Volume 7, 1972, p. 221, “Flip's Flipstick”.