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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 159 | THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT-HOUDIN by clock-work or with a black silk thread or a human hair, the result was one and the same. It has also been worked by using a fine thread with a piece of wax at the end. The wax is fastened to the card, and the thread draws it up. The simplest method of all is to place the thread รจ Card trick as featured by Anderson in 1836-37. From a poster in the Harry Houdini Collection. over and under the cards, weaving it in and out as it were, and then, by pulling the thread, to bring the different cards selected into view. So common was the trick that its description was written in every work on magic published from 1784 to the date of Robert-Houdin's first appearance, and in at least one volume printed as early as 1635. The majority [ 142 |