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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 182 | THE CABALISTIC CLOCK described, is credited as having been the invention of Johann Nep. Hofzinser. In an advertisement, published in the London Post of May 23d, 1778, included in my collection, this announce- ment, among others of much interest, will be found: "PART II.-Breslaw will exhibit many of his newly invented deceptions with a grand apparatus and experi- Katterfelto, the bombastic conjurer, who is famous for having sold sulphur matches in 1784, before the Lucifer match is supposed to have been discovered. Reproduced from a rare copy of "The European Magazine," dated June, 1783, now in the Harry Houdini Collection. ments and particularly the Magic Clock, Sympathetic Bell, and Pyramidical Glasses in a manner entirely new." In 1781, while showing at Greenwood's Rooms, Hay- market, London, Breslaw heavily advertised, "Particularly an experiment on a newly invented mechanical clock [ 165] |