T. Nelson Downs: Book of New Coin Tricks, No. 14
Downs, T. Nelson: Book of New Coin Tricks, No. 14
©1913 Royal Pub. Co., PA
Softcover, perfect-bound, 58 pages plus ads
T. Nelson Downs: Book of New Coin Tricks
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Comments: "Containing all the latest sleight-of-hand tricks with coins. Togeher with instructions for the best method of palming as performed by the best conjurers and coin manipulators on the stage." Although there are no authors listed, the diagrams and tricks appear to be an extract of Downs' Tricks With Coins. There is also a selection of card tricks, which appear to be extracts from earlier works such as Anderson's "How to Do 40 Tricks With Cards" or Cremer's "The Secret Out".

Contents (from book):

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3 Palming: front and back palm, use to vanish or appear a coin
6 Another Form of the Continuous Front and Back Palm: hand shown empty
11 To Pass a Coin Through the Knees
12 The Elusive Pass: a false transfer
14 To Palm and Make the Pass With Forty Coins
16 The Goblet of Mystery: a pile of coins vanish and are found in a glass covered with a handkerchief
18 The Marvelous Transit of Coins: coins tranpose between two glasses and two hats
19 Novel Appearing Coin: in the hands
20 Quadruple Coin: one coin on a plate becomes four
20 Gold Versus Silver: gold rings and silver coins are "shot" at handkerchiefs, and the coins or rings end up in the handkerchief chosen by the audience
22 The Transmutation of Metals: gold and silver coins transpose twice
24 A Series of New and Original Coin Vanishes and Passes:
24 - No. 1: clever vanish
25 - No. 2: coin vanishes in a handkerchief
26 - No. 3: showing both hands empty
26 - No. 4: an instant vanish of a coin using a gimmick
27 - No. 5: an elbow vanish
28 - No. 6: vanish to pocket
28 - No. 7: false transfer
29 - No. 8: bare hand coin vanish
29 - No. 9: another, using sleeving
30 - No. 10: another vanish
30 - No. 11: coin vanishes in glass of water
32 The Winged Coin: version of coin in bottle without a folding coin
33 Coin Passing Through a Table, Etc.
34 The Coin of Mercury: another coin in glass vanish
36 New Coins and Die: an approach to the cap and pence
40 The Equilibriaum of Silver: coins are balanced on the finger
42 New Change-Over Palm
44 New Click Pass
48 The Coin and Paper Tube: a sort of Miser's Dream with coins tossed and landing on a plate
50 To Guess the Spots at the Bottom of Three Packets, Which Have been Made by the Drawer
51 Of the Two Rows of Cards, to Tell the One Which Has Been Touched
52 To Change the Card by Way of Command
53 To Slip a Card
54 To Call for Any Card in the Pack
55 To Make a Card Which a Person Has Drawn Dance on the Wall
56 The Card Hit Upon by Guess
57 The Changeable Ace
57 The Convertible Aces
58 To Carry Away a Card

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