Effect
A New Postal Trick
Ellis Stanyon · Conjuring for Amateurs, 1897
- Time
- 2 min read + 10 min practice
- Materials
- In the library
- Prerequisites
- None
Take care. Working with these objects and effects is inherently dangerous; anyone who attempts them does so at their own risk. Anybody under 18 is advised to undertake them only with a parent's permission and supervision.
This is very useful, as it can be employed in conjunction with any trick where a word, message, total of sum, etc., is to be produced in a magical manner. An ordinary postcard is handed to a spectator with a request that he will tear a small piece from one corner, and having done so, hand both portions back to the performer.
The corner is laid on the table and the card torn up into small pieces which are then placed in the magic pistol (see p. 32), and fired at a borrowed hat. The card is afterwards produced from the hat covered with writing, and fully restored with the exception of the corner, which on being fitted to the card is found to correspond in every way.
How it is done
The method and all it needs, inside the library.
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