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Bobo's Coin Magic
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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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.
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