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Bobo's Coin Magic To receive even more free classic magic books CLICK HERE. To see all the latest instant download magic tricks CLICK HERE. To see our new magic video page just CLICK HERE. This version of a classic magic book was created by www.magicforall.com and distributed by www.learnmagictricks.org . You may distribute it in any way you wish, but we ask that you do so only to genuine magicians and please do not alter the ebook in any way. Let us make you a FREE customized copy of this book. If you run a magic website and want to distribute this book yourself contact us at admin@magicforall and we will be happy to prepare a copy which incorporates links back to your website on every page, bringing huge amounts of new traffic. Bobo's Coin Magic Presented by www.learnmagictricks.org Page 1 BOBO'S COIN MAGIC By J.B. Bobo Edited by John Braun Illustrated by Nelson C. Hahne Dedication: To My Great Grandfather JEAN BEAUBEAUX who, when he immigrated to America,was induced to spell his name BOBO the way Beaubeaux is pronounced in French. Table of Contents Acknowledgments......................................................................................................18 Prologue--Of Coins and Conjuring..........................................................................20 Bibliography...............................................................................................................26 MonieScot's Discouverie of Witchcraft, 1584.........................................................27 Chapter I Coin Concealments...............................28 The Classic Palm........................................................................................................29 The Edge Palm...........................................................................................................32 The Thumb Palm.......................................................................................................34 The Downs Palm........................................................................................................36 The Finger Palm........................................................................................................39 The Front Finger Hold..............................................................................................40 The Back Palm...........................................................................................................41 The Back Finger Clip................................................................................................45 The Back Thumb Palm.............................................................................................48 Chapter II Basic Technique..................................52 The Bobo Switch........................................................................................................53 Utility Switch..............................................................................................................56 One-Hand Switch.......................................................................................................58 Bobo's Coin Magic Presented by www.learnmagictricks.org Page 2 Shaw-Judah Coin Switch..........................................................................................60 The Click Pass............................................................................................................63 The Click Pass--Paul Morris....................................................................................66 The Coin Flip.............................................................................................................70 Change-Over Pass......................................................................................................72 The Bottom Steal--Paul Morris................................................................................74 Producing a Coin from a Spectator's Clothing.......................................................78 Taking Advantage of a Fumble.................................................................................80 Chapter III Coin Vanishes...................................84 Standard Vanish.........................................................................................................85 Simple Vanish.............................................................................................................87 Over the Top...............................................................................................................89 The Tunnel Vanish.....................................................................................................91 Thumb Palm Vanish..................................................................................................93 The Drop Vanish--Milton Kort.................................................................................95 The Bobo Coin Vanish...............................................................................................99 The Slide Vanish--John Mulholland......................................................................103 The Illusive Coin Pass--T. J. Crawford In Greater Magic...................................105 A Coin Vanish--Reprinted from Greater Magic...................................................108 The Pinch Vanish......................................................................................................111 Gone--Bill Simon......................................................................................................113 The New Era Coin Go--Jimmy Buffaloe................................................................116 The Flyaway Coin--Frank Garcia..........................................................................119 Behind the Back.......................................................................................................121 The French Drop (Le Tourniquet Vanish).............................................................123 The Reverse French Drop--Dr. E. M. Roberts......................................................126 The Elusive Silver Dollar--Al Saal.........................................................................129 The Wrist Watch Vanish--Royal H. Brin, Jr.........................................................131 The Pulse Trick--Glenn Harrison...........................................................................133 The Cranium Vanish--Wallace Lee's Version.......................................................136 Vanish with the Aid of a Handkerchief..................................................................137 The "Heads and Tails" Vanish--H. Adrian Smith................................................140 Vanish for Several Coins.........................................................................................143 A Trio of Vanishes--Ross Bertram..........................................................................146 Chapter IV Complete Coin Vanishes..................151 The Bobo Complete Coin Vanish...........................................................................152 Complete Thumb Palm Vanish...............................................................................154 Knee-zy Vanish.........................................................................................................155 Sucker vanish...........................................................................................................156 Pocket Vanish...........................................................................................................160 With a Handkerchief--Number One......................................................................164 With a Handkerchief--Number Two--Jimmy Buffaloe........................................167 Bobo's Coin Magic Presented by www.learnmagictricks.org Page 3 With a Handkerchief--Number Three--Milton Kort............................................170 In a Spectator's Pocket............................................................................................173 Bluff Vanish..............................................................................................................178 Sucker Bluff Vanish--Milton Kort..........................................................................180 The Coin Fold...........................................................................................................181 The Envelope Vanish...............................................................................................184 Chapter V Quick Tricks......................................186 Through the Leg......................................................................................................187 Rubbed Through the Leg........................................................................................189 Through the Pocket.................................................................................................192 Through the Hand...................................................................................................195 Through a Handkerchief.........................................................................................200 Double Penetration--Jimmy Buffaloe....................................................................206 Pants Leg Miracle--Jimmy Buffaloe......................................................................210 Half Dollar to Quarter--Milton Kort.....................................................................211 The Charmed Coin..................................................................................................215 The Coin of Metamorphosis--Dr. E. M. Roberts..................................................217 Coin to Key--Courtesy J. G. Thompson's My Best..............................................222 Change for a Half....................................................................................................227 Much from Little--John Braun's Version..............................................................228 The Topsy Turvy Coins--Karrel Fox And Roy Kissel...........................................231 The Impromptu Mint--Jimmy Buffaloe................................................................234 Smart Coin Trick--Frank M. Chapman, Courtesy The Bat................................237 Impromptu Version--J. G. Thompson, Jr..............................................................241 The Switchover--Jimmy Buffaloe...........................................................................242 The Appearing Half--Jimmy Buffaloe...................................................................245 Coin Production from Two Cards..........................................................................247 The Touch of Midas--Cardini.................................................................................252 One to Four--Cal Emmett.......................................................................................257 One to Six--Jack Chanin.........................................................................................261 Chapter VI Cuffing Dr. E. M. Roberts' Method--Louis Tannen's Method ..........................................................................266 Chapter VII The Art of Sleeving.........................273 The Art of Sleeving Some Observations on the Subject......................................274 Delayed Action Sleeving..........................................................................................276 Improved Method....................................................................................................278 The "Pumpkin Seed" Vanish..................................................................................279 Reverse "Pumpkin Seed" Vanish--Ross Bertram.................................................281 The Catapult............................................................................................................283 Judah Method--Stewart Judah...............................................................................285 A Unique Sleeving Move--Ross Bertram...............................................................287 Bobo's Coin Magic Presented by www.learnmagictricks.org Page 4 The Throw--J. A. Bowling.......................................................................................289 Kort Method--Milton Kort.....................................................................................291 Kirk Stiles Method...................................................................................................294 A Method of Sleeving One of Several Coins--Milton Kort..................................296 Dr. E. M. Roberts' Method.....................................................................................298 Loading.....................................................................................................................306 Switching..................................................................................................................309 The Sleeve Pocket.....................................................................................................311 Tricks Using Sleeving..............................................................................................312 Penetration...............................................................................................................313 Migration..................................................................................................................316 Tricks Using Sleeving ...........................................................................................318 Devaluation...............................................................................................................323 InflationFollow-Up to Devaluation........................................................................326 Transformation........................................................................................................328 Dime and Penny for the Wiseacre--Al Saal and Milton Kort..............................331 The Vagabond Coins--Milton Kort........................................................................334 Change for a Dollar--Dr. E. M. Roberts................................................................337 The World's Fastest Coin Vanish and Reproduction--Dr. E. M. Roberts..........338 Almost a Transposition--Stewart James and Milton Kort...................................341 Copper and Silver Transposition--Milton Kort....................................................344 Copper and Silver Transposition--Second Method Stewart Judah....................347 Copper and Silver Transposition--Third Method Arthur Punnar, By permission of Hugard's Monthly...............................................................................................348 Copper and Silver Transposition--Fourth Method Ross Bertram......................350 Guess Which Hand--C. James Mclemore..............................................................356 Quarter and Half Dollar Transposition After a version which appeared in Ireland Writes a Book.............................................................................................367 The Curious Nickel--Thomas H. Bearden.............................................................373 Two Pennies On The Leg--J. G. Thompson, Jr.....................................................376 The Inseparable Pair...............................................................................................378 Coins in the Teeth....................................................................................................383 The Drop Pass Jimmy Buffaloe..............................................................................385 The Hippity Hop Half--Jimmy Buffaloe................................................................387 Rapid Transit Royal--H. Brin, Jr...........................................................................390 Winged Silver (A basic method using an extra coin.)--Nelson C. Hahne...........393 The Flying Eagles.....................................................................................................400 Three and Three.......................................................................................................403 Chinese Money Mystery..........................................................................................405 Frank Drobina's Coin Routine--Frank Drobina..................................................409 Four Coins to a Glass Described by Arthur Buckley...........................................419 Four Coins to a Glass--Second Version..................................................................424 The Traveling Centavos Reprinted through the courtesy of The Sphinx Bobo's Coin Magic Presented by www.learnmagictricks.org Page 5 Publishing Corporation...........................................................................................427 Miracle Coins to the Pocket Glenn Harrison........................................................435 Chapter VIII Coins Across..................................441 A Novel Vanish And Reproduction.........................................................................443 Tricks Using Sleeving.............................................................................................445 The Stratosphere Quarters Dr. E. M. Roberts......................................................448 Die to Dime Kirk Stiles............................................................................................451 Chapter IX Coin Classics....................................455 Coin Through a Ring...............................................................................................456 Silver or Copper Extraction....................................................................................463 Copper Penetration.................................................................................................473 The Expansion of Texture--Expanded!..................................................................479 The Gadabout Coins................................................................................................482 The Three Coin Trick--Milton Kort.......................................................................487 The Bent Penny........................................................................................................492 Silver Extraction--Dr. Boris Zola...........................................................................495 The Ghost of a Coin.................................................................................................498 Coins Through the Table.........................................................................................501 The Magical Filtration of Four Half Dollars--Al Baker......................................510 The Sympathetic Coins...........................................................................................518 The Al Saal Stratagem.............................................................................................522 The Coin Roll...........................................................................................................529 The Downs Coin Star..............................................................................................531 Roll Down Flourish with Four Coins.....................................................................535 Downs Eureka Pass.................................................................................................537 "Eureka" RoutineArthur Punnar..........................................................................540 Rattle Box RoutineStewart Judah..........................................................................543 Thieves and SheepMilton Kort and Stewart James.............................................546 Just Pretend Stuart Cramer...................................................................................549 The Free and Unlimited Coinage of Silver............................................................557 Coins and Cards Glenn Harrison Courtesy The Sphinx Publishing Corporation ...................................................................................................................................559 Chapter X Coin Boxes.........................................566 The Okito Coin Box.................................................................................................567 Coins Through Box and the Hand.........................................................................576 Okito Box, Coin and Handkerchief........................................................................578 Routine With an Okito Coin Box and a SilkJack Chanin...................................581 Silver to Copper with the Okito Coin BoxDr. Carl L. Moore..............................584 The Half Dollars and the Okito Box J. Elder Blacrledge.....................................586 The George Boston Combination Coin Box..........................................................599 Copper and Silver Transposition with the Combination Coin Box....................601 The German Coin Box............................................................................................602 Bobo's Coin Magic Presented by www.learnmagictricks.org Page 6 The Paul Fox Coin Boxes........................................................................................605 Chapter XI Trick Coin Trickery............................610 Squeeze Play Stewart James...................................................................................612 Jimmy Valentine Picks a Lock Stewart James......................................................614 Money Paper Stewart James..................................................................................616 Almost a TranspositionStewart James...................................................................620 The Homing Coins--Al Caroselli............................................................................622 The Circus Trick......................................................................................................625 The 16¢ Vanish.........................................................................................................627 85¢ Through the Table (The $1.35 Trick) Rolland Hamblen...............................628 Copper and Silver Transposition (Using the Double Faced Coin)......................631 Presto Chango Thomas H. Bearden.......................................................................637 The Inferior Coin Milton Kort...............................................................................640 Thieves and Sheep Lillian Bobo.............................................................................645 In and Out "Hen" Fetsch........................................................................................646 Up Their Sleeve "Hen" Fetsch...............................................................................649 Buddha's Coin "Hen" Fetsch.................................................................................652 The Stack of Quarters Nate Leipzig......................................................................655 The Hook Coin.........................................................................................................663 The Magnet..............................................................................................................668 Sundry Gimmicked Coins and Tricks Therewith.................................................672 Nickel to Half Dollar................................................................................................673 Liberty Head Half and U.S. Penny........................................................................674 The Ring Coin..........................................................................................................676 Short Changed Gene Gordon.................................................................................678 The Marksman Jimmy Buffaloe............................................................................682 The Squirting Nickel...............................................................................................684 Chapter XII Shell and Folding Half.....................686 The Shell Half...........................................................................................................687 Mystery With a Half Shell......................................................................................688 How To Make Money..............................................................................................690 Three Questions Dave Coleman.............................................................................693 Coin Through a Glass..............................................................................................695 Perfected Coin Through HandkerchiefJimmy Buffaloe......................................699 25¢ and 50¢ Transposition Dr. Carl L. Moore......................................................704 The Peregrinating Halves Reprinted Through the Courtesy of The Bat...........707 Coins Through the Table Milton Kort...................................................................714 The Protean Coin Milton Kort...............................................................................720 The Sympathetic Coins Milton Kort......................................................................727 The Modern Miser...................................................................................................734 The Folding Half......................................................................................................737 The Half Dollar In The Bottle Ralph De Shong, Courtesy The Bat....................738 Bobo's Coin Magic Presented by www.learnmagictricks.org Page 7 The Magic Mint.......................................................................................................744 Biting a Piece From a Coin Gene Gordon.............................................................747 Coin Through a Card (The Folding Quarter) Dave Coleman.............................751 Chapter XIII Stage Coin Magic...........................755 A Comedy Coin Routine--Dave Coleman..............................................................756 Coin in the Banana..................................................................................................766 Coin in Ball of Wool and Nest of Boxes.................................................................769 Flight Three Glenn Harrison..................................................................................778 Chapter XIV The Miser's Dream..........................783 Production of Any Number of Coins at Finger Tips.............................................805 To Pass a Coin Through the Knees........................................................................808 The Elusive Pass.......................................................................................................810 New Change-Over Palm..........................................................................................812 Downs' New "Click" Pass.......................................................................................814 Downs' New Fan Pass..............................................................................................818 The Downs' Eureka Pass.........................................................................................819 The "Turnover" With Forty Coins........................................................................820 To Palm And Make The Pass With Forty Coins...................................................822 The Miser's Dream Glenn Harrison......................................................................825 The Miser's Dream M. S. Whitford's Version.......................................................834 A Miser's Dream Routine Jack Makepeace..........................................................840 Perpetual Coins Harry Bernard Courtesy The Linking Ring.............................843 Chapter XV The Stanley Collins Section..............846 T. Nelson Downs.......................................................................................................847 William J. Hilliar.....................................................................................................848 L'homme Masqué....................................................................................................849 Allan Shaw................................................................................................................850 Owen Clark..............................................................................................................852 Charles Morritt........................................................................................................854 Three Coin Monte....................................................................................................858 The Jumping Sixpence............................................................................................861 The Esscee Half-Crown and Wafers Trick............................................................863 Two Heads and a Tail..............................................................................................866 The Esscee Front and Back Manipulation............................................................868 Chapter XVI Routines.........................................870 Routine No. 1 With a Single Coin...........................................................................871 Routine No. 2 With a Single Coin...........................................................................872 Routine No. 3 With a Single Coin...........................................................................873 Routine No. 4............................................................................................................875 Routine No. 5............................................................................................................877 Routine No. 6............................................................................................................879 Routine No. 7............................................................................................................880 Bobo's Coin Magic Presented by www.learnmagictricks.org Page 8 Routine No. 8............................................................................................................881 Routine No. 9............................................................................................................883 Routine No. 10..........................................................................................................885 Routine No. 11..........................................................................................................888 Routine No. 12..........................................................................................................889 Routine No. 13..........................................................................................................891 Routine No. 14 Milton Kort....................................................................................892 Routine No. 15: Too Many Coins Milton Kort......................................................895 Routine No. 16 Rolland Hamblen..........................................................................898 Routine No. 17: Specious Specie J. G. Thompson, Jr...........................................901 Part II........................................................................................................................906 Bobo's Coin Magic Presented by www.learnmagictricks.org Page 9 PREFACE THE purpose of this volume is to present to the magical fraternity a complete treatise on sleight of hand coin conjuring. Little has been written on the subject, and much of that is scattered throughout dozens of books and magazines. Because of this, it has been difficult for the student to obtain all the information necessary to his becoming a proficient coin worker. This deficiency in magical literature has long been recognized, but little has been done about it. In recent years there have appeared a few books devoted partly to coin magic but none has filled the necessary need adequately. The actual work on this book began over two and a half years ago with the collecting of material. I contacted dozens of magicians noted for their ability as close-up workers and, with few exceptions, all complied enthusiastically by contributing choice material. The result of combining the contributions of four dozen magicians with my own is the book you now hold in your hands. Of course, not all the material in this book is new. It is not intended to be. The purpose, as mentioned in the beginning, is to cover the subject of sleight of hand coin magic in all its practical aspects. To do this it has been necessary to include many of the standard principles of the past. However, all out-of-date or otherwise impractical sleights have been eliminated. Only the best and most useful have been retained. To these basic principles have been added many new and revolutionary ideas, all of which should give the student a conception of coin magic hitherto unknown. Bobo's Coin Magic Presented by www.learnmagictricks.org Page 10

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