pages: latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf, 38
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| latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 38 | 22 LATEST MAGIC way for "changing" a borrowed coin. The per- former, asking the loan of a marked coin, brings forward held in his left hand a velvet mat (of small size) whereon to receive it; the right hand mean- while holding palmed against the second and third fingers the velvet patch, and between this and the hand a substitute coin of similar kind. Turning (to the left) towards his table, with the coin in full view on the mat, he (apparently) picks it up and holds it aloft with the right hand, placing the now empty mat alone on the table. What he really does is to lay the velvet patch over the bor- rowed coin and to pick the substitute in its place. The original lies perdu on the mat, whence it is child's play to gain possession of it at any later stage of the trick. The process may be varied by placing the mat, after receiving the borrowed coin upon it, at once on the table, and a little later picking up the mat with the left hand, then proceeding as above indi- cated. The advantage of this plan is that the turn to the table to pick up the mat masks for the moment the right side of the performer and gives him a convenient opportunity to palm the coin and patch, bestowed in readiness in the pochette on that side. The same principle may be applied with appro- priate modifications to card tricks. The idea of the black ait mat is so completely a novelty that I have not found leisure to give it the full considera- |