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Theo Bamberg claims to have invented this in 1891 by accident; see The Linking Ring, Vol. 27 No. 9, Nov. 1947, p. 17. However, the earliest published description of the trick seems to be “The Bewitched Wand” in W. H. J. Shaw's Magic and Its Mysteries, 1893, p. 7.