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Effect

The Card and Broken Mirror

August Roterberg · New Era Card Tricks, 1897

Time
3 min read + 10 min practice
Materials
In the library
Prerequisites
1 sleight, in the library

After a card has been selected, it is returned to the pack, which the performer throws against a mircor, with the result that all but one of the cards ogether with some fragments of the glass, fall t the floor.

The chosen one, however, remains attached to the mirror and is removed by the performer, when it is discovered that the mirror is seriously damaged, a large ragger ole being visible to everybody. After due apologies o the part of the conjurer, he gathers up the broken pieces and wraps them in a handkerchief, with which he wipes the broken mirror; when, to everyone's astonishment, the mirror is seen to have been completely restored, all trace of the breakage having mysteriously disappeared.

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