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Ball, Handkerchief, and Tumbler

Ellis Stanyon · Conjuring for Amateurs, 1897

Time
3 min read + 10 min practice
Materials
In the library
Prerequisites
None

This is a very good combination trick, and as such will serve as an example for the arrangement of others. A billiard ball is placed in a small tumbler, which is in turn wrapped in a piece of newspaper and deposited in a borrowed hat.

The performer then takes a small silk handkerchief and rolls it up in his hands, when it is seen to have become transformed into a billiard ball. The glass is then taken from the hat, and, on the paper being removed, is found to contain the handkerchief.

The ball, handkerchiet, and tumbler, together with the piece of paper, are then caused to vanish, one at a time, from the hands of the performer, who immediately afterwards produces them from the hat.

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