The William W. Larsen Memorial Library

New Modern Coin Magic

Author/Editor: Bobo, J. B.

w/ dust jacket

The Classic Palm
The Edge Palm
The Thumb Palm
The Downs Palm
The Finger Palm
The Front Finger Hold
The Back Palm
The Back Finger Clip
The Back Thumb Palm
The Bobo Switch (J.B. Bobo)
Utility Switch
One-Hand Switch
Shaw-Judah Coin Switch (Allan Shaw, Stewart Judah)
The Click Pass (Chester Woodin)
The Click Pass
The Click Pass (Paul Morris)
The Coin Flip
Change-Over Pass
The Bottom Steal (Paul Morris)
Producing A Coin From A Spectator’s Clothing
Taking Advantage Of A Fumble
Standard Vanish
Simple Vanish
Over The Top
The Tunnel Vanish
Thumb Palm Vanish
The Drop Vanish (Milton Kort)
The Bobo Coin Vanish (J.B. Bobo)
The Slide Vanish (John Mulholland)
The Illusive Coin Pass (T.J. Crawford)
A Coin Vanish
The Pinch Vanish
Gone (Bill Simon)
The New Era Coin Go (Jimmy Buffaloe)
The Flyaway Coin (Frank Garcia)
Behind The Back
The French Drop (Le Tourniquet Vanish)
The Reverse French Drop (Dr. E.M. Roberts)
The Elusive Silver Dollar (Al Saal)
The Wrist Watch Vanish (Royal H. Brin, Jr.)
The Pulse Trick (Glenn Harrison)
The Cranium Vanish (Wallace Lee)
Vanish With The Aid Of A Handkerchief
The “Head And Tails” Vanish (H. Adrian Smith)
Vanish For Several Coins
A Trio Of Vanishes (Ross Bertram)
The Bobo Complete Coin Vanish (J.B. Bobo)
Complete Thumb Palm Vanish
Knee-zy Vanish
Sucker Vanish
Pocket Vanish
With A Handkerchief (Number One)
With A Handkerchief (Number Two) (Jimmy Buffaloe)
With A Handkerchief (Number Three) (Milton Kort)
In A Spectator’s Pocket (Wallace Lee)
Bluff Vanish
Sucker Bluff Vanish (Milton Kort)
The Coin Fold
The Envelope Vanish
Through The Leg
Rubbed Through The Leg
Through The Pocket (Dave Coleman)
Through The Hand (Clyde Cairy)
Through The Hand (Ross Bertram)
Through A Handkerchief
Double Penetration (Jimmy Buffaloe)
Pants Leg Miracle (Jimmy Buffaloe)
Half Dollar To Quarter (Milton Kort)
The Charmed Coin
The Coin Of Metamorphosis (Dr. E.M. Roberts)
Coin To Key (J.B. Bobo)
Change For A Half
Much From Little (John Braun)
The Topsy Turvy Coins (Karrel Fox, Roy Kissel)
The Impromptu Mint (Jimmy Buffaloe)
Smart Coin Trick (Frank M. Chapman)
Impromptu Version (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
The Switchover (Jimmy Buffaloe)
The Appearing Half (Jimmy Buffaloe)
Coin Production From Two Cards
The Touch Of Midas (Cardini)
One To Four (Cal Emmett)
One To Six (Jack Chanin)
Cuffing (Dr. E.M. Roberts)
Cuffing (Louis Tannen)
Delayed Action Sleeving
Improved Method
The “Pumpkin Seed” Vanish
Reverse “Pumpkin Seed” Vanish (Ross Bertram)
The Catapult
Judah Method (Stewart Judah)
A Unique Sleeving Move (Ross Bertram)
The Throw (J.A. Bowling)
Kort Method (Milton Kort)
Kirk Stiles Method
A Method Of Sleeving One Of Several Coins (Milton Kort)
Dr. E.M. Roberts Method
A Simple Method Of Loading
A Method Of Sleeving One Of Several Coins
The Dr. E.M. Roberts’ Method Of Sleeving
Switching
The Sleeve Pocket
Penetration
Migration
Transposition (Dr. E.M. Roberts)
Devaluation (Tenkai)
Inflation
Transformation
Variation
Dime And Penny For The Wiseacre (Al Saal, Milton Kort)
A Novel Vanish And Reproduction
The Vagabond Coins (Milton Kort)
Splitting The Atom (Dr. E.M. Roberts)
Change For A Dollar (Dr. E.M. Roberts)
The Stratosphere Quarters (Dr. E.M. Roberts)
The World’s Fastest Coin Vanish And Reproduction (Dr. E.M. Roberts)
Die To Dime (Kirk Stiles)
Almost A Transposition (Stewart James, Milton Kort)
Second Version
Third Version (Milton Kort, Robert Ungewitter)
Copper And Silver Transposition (Milton Kort)
Second Method (Stewart Judah)
Third Method (Arthur Punnar)
Fourth Method (Ross Bertram)
Guess Which Hand (C. James McLemore)
Quarter And Half Dollar Transposition (Laurie Ireland)
The Curious Nickel (Thomas H. Bearden)
Two Pennies On The Leg (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
The Inseparable Pair
Coins In The Teeth
The Drop Pass (Jimmy Buffaloe)
The Hippity Hop Half (Jimmy Buffaloe)
Rapid Transit (Royal H. Brin, Jr.)
Winged Silver (Nelson C. Hahne)
Improved Version
The Flying Eagles
Variation (Senor Mardo)
Three And Three
Chinese Money Mystery
Frank Drobina’s Coin Routine
Four Coins To A Glass (Arthur Buckley)
Second Version
The Traveling Centavos (J.B. Bobo)
Miracle Coins To The Pocket (Glenn Harrison)
Coin Through A Ring
Silver Or Copper Extraction (Stewart Judah)
Silver Or Copper Extraction (Orville Meyer)
Copper Penetration
The Expansion Of Texture–Expanded!
The Gadabout Coins (J.B. Bobo)
The Three Coin Trick (Milton Kort)
Second Method
Third Method
The Bent Penny
Silver Extraction (Dr. Boris Zola)
The Ghost Of A Coin
Second Method (Wallace Lee)
Coins Through The Table
Second Version
Third Version
Fourth Version (Stewart Judah)
The Magical Filtration Of Four Half Dollars (Al Baker)
Idea For Fourth Coin (Frank Garcia)
The Sympathetic Coins (Yank Hoe)
Second Version
The Al Saal Stratagem
Third Version
Fourth Version (The Changing Change) (Stewart James)
The Coin Roll
The Downs Coin Star (T. Nelson Downs)
Roll Down Flourish With Four Coins
Downs Eureka Pass (T. Nelson Downs)
“Eureka” Routine (Arthur Punnar)
Rattle Box Routine (Stewart Judah)
Thieves And Sheep (Milton Kort, Stewart James)
Just Pretend (Stuart Cramer)
The Free And Unlimited Coinage Of Silver
Coins And Cards (Glenn Harrison)
The Okito Coin Box
Coins Through Box And The Hand
Okito Box, Coin And Handkerchief
Routine With An Okito Coin Box And A Silk (Jack Chanin)
Silver To Copper With The Okito Coin Box (Dr. Carl L. Moore)
The Half Dollars And The Okito Box (J. Elder Blackledge)
The George Boston Combination Coin Box
Copper And Silver Transposition With The Combination Coin Box
The German Coin Box
The Paul Fox Coin Boxes
Squeeze Play (Stewart James)
Jimmy Valentine Picks A Lock (Stewart James)
Money Paper (Stewart James)
Almost A Transposition (Stewart James)
The Homing Coins (Al Caroselli)
The Circus Trick
The 16¢ Vanish
85¢ Through The Table (The $1.35 Trick) (Rolland Hamblen)
Copper And Silver Transposition (Using The Double Faced Coin) Number One
Number Two
Number Three
Number Four (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
Presto Chango (Thomas H. Bearden)
The Inferior Coin (Milton Kort)
Thieves And Sheep (Lillian Bobo)
In And Out (Hen Fetsch)
Up Their Sleeve (Hen Fetsch)
Buddha’s Coin (Hen Fetsch)
The Stack Of Quarters (Nate Leipzig)
Second Method
The Hook Coin
The Magnet
Nickel To Half Dollar
Liberty Head Half And U.S. Penny
The Ring Coin
Short Changed (Gene Gordon)
The Marksman (Jimmy Buffaloe)
The Squirting Nickel
The Shell Half
Mystery With A Half Shell
How To Make Money
Three Question (Dave Coleman)
Coins Through A Glass
Perfected Coin Through Handkerchief (Jimmy Buffaloe)
25¢ And 50¢ Transposition (Dr. Carl L. Moore)
The Peregrinating Halves (J.B. Bobo)
Coins Through The Table (Milton Kort)
The Protean Coin (Milton Kort)
The Sympathetic Coins (Milton Kort)
The Modern Miser
The Half Dollar In The Bottle (Ralph De Shong)
Second Method (Stewart Judah)
The Magic Mint
Biting A Piece From A Coin (Gene Gordon)
Second Version (Tom Hollingsworth)
Coin Through A Card (The Folding Quarter) (Dave Coleman)
A Comedy Coin Routine (Dave Coleman)
Coin In The Banana
Coin In Ball Of Wool And Nest Of Boxes (Dana Walden)
Flight Three (Glenn Harrison)
The Miser’s Dream (T. Nelson Downs’ Original Version)
Production Of Any Number Of Coins At Finger Tips
To Pass A Coin Through The Knees
The Elusive Pass
New Change-Over Palm
Downs’ New “Click” Pass (T. Nelson Downs)
Downs’ New Fan Pass (T. Nelson Downs)
The Downs’ Eureka Pass (T. Nelson Downs)
The “Turnover” With Forty Coins
To Palm And Make The Pass With Forty Coins
The Miser’s Dream (Glenn Harrison)
The Miser’s Dream (M.S. Whitford)
A Miser’s Dream Routine (Jack Makepeace)
Perpetual Coins (Harry Bernard)
The Purse Trick (Charles Morritt)
Three Coin Monte
The Jumping Sixpence
The Esscee Half-Crown And Wafers Trick (Stanley Collins)
Two Heads And A Tail (Stanley Collins)
The Esscee Front And Back Manipulation (Stanley Collins)
Routine No. 1 (With A Single Coin)
Routine No. 2 (With A Single Coin)
Routine No. 3 (With A Single Coin)
Routine No. 4
Routine No. 5
Routine No. 6
Routine No. 7
Routine No. 8
Routine No. 9
Routine No. 10
Routine No. 11
Routine No. 12
Routine No. 13
Routine No. 14 (Milton Kort)
Routine No. 15 (Too Many Coins) (Milton Kort)
Routine No. 16 (Rolland Hamblen)
Routine No. 17 (Specious Specie) (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
Tools Of The Trade
Technique
Change In A Spectator’s Hand
The Come And Go Coin (J.B. Bobo)
The Goshman Pinch (Albert Goshman)
The Instantaneous Coin Change (Howard Schwarzman)
Impossible Marked Coins Transposition (Albert Goshman)
The Tenkai Pennies (Ishida Tenkai)
Copsil (Edward Marlo)
Copsil II (Stand-Up Version)
Alternative Stand-Up Ending
Psychological Coins Through (Slydini)
Stand-Up Coins Across (C.L. Schmitt)
Penny And Nickel Transposition (Herb Zarrow)
A Trio Of Vanishes
The Placement (Milton Kort)
In The Well (Milton Kort, Dave Hertzberg)
Under The Thumb (Milton Kort, Hugh MacLean)
The Cartwheel Sleight (Kirk Stiles)
Progressive Production (Bob Carver)
Coins From Silk (Jack Chanin)
The Six Coins In Goblet (S. Leo Horowitz) (Mohammed Bey)
Kort’s Fourth (Milton Kort)
Motile (Dr. Jacob Daley)
The Waiter’s Tip (Silent Mora)
‘Silver Lining’ (Milbourne Christopher)
Dollar Flight (Glenn Harrison)
Stand-Up Coin Opener (Royal H. Brin, Jr.)
Frank Ducrot’s Coin Fold (Stewart Judah)
Handkerchief Coin Vanish (Eddie Joseph)
Al Leech’s Coin Trick (Al Leech)
The Great Purse Game (Al Baker)
The Passe Coins (John Brearley)
Passing The Buck (Thomas James Osborne)
Bobo Variation
The Mexican Gadabout Coins (Milton Kort)
Second Version
Nuts To You (Jerry McDermott)
Rip-o (Jack Chanin)
Vanishing Coins And Purse (Glenn Harrison)
Follow-Up Effect
Chinese Money Trick (Silent Mora)
Pouring Pennies Through A Table (Mike Rogers)
The Seven Penny Trick (Terry Lynn)
The Runaway Coin (John Giordmaine)
Penny Prestidigitation (John Braun)
Dollar To Dollar (Jack Chanin)
Stewart Judah’s Half Dollar Vanish
Thumb Tax (Howard Schwarzman)
Wanderful (Howard Schwarzman)
A Wanderful Production (Howard Schwarzman)
Rising Coin Through Handkerchief (Richard N. Oslund)
A Funny Finish For A Coin Routine (J.B. Bobo)
The Camera Coin (Paul Morris)
Coin To Confetti
An Extra Load For The Miser’s Dream (T. Nelson Downs) (John Mulholland)
Climax To The Coin Pail (Neil Foster)
The Miser’s Dream With Paper Bag (Harry Louine)
A Surprising Routine (Rolland Hamblen)
The Penton Coin Switch (Charles Penton)
A Lippincott Coin Box Routine (J.B. Bobo)
The Dam Coin Trick
The Miller Routine For The Miser’s Dream (Charles Earl Miller) (Charlie Miller)
The New Folding Half
Spinning Nickels
Magnetic Coins
Regular Shell Coins
Expanded Shells
Squirting Coins
Stack Of Halves
The Chinese Quarter
Dime To English Penny (Conrad Haden)
The New Quarter And Half Dollar Transposition
The Sun And Moon (Albert Goshman)
The Silver And Two Copper Transposition (Conrad Haden)
Alternate Version
A Quarter And A Half (S. Leo Horowitz, John Mulholland) (Mohammed Bey)
Mulholland’s Quarter And Half Routine (John Mulholland)
A Surprise Routine With The $1.35 Trick (Conrad Haden)
Stoppard’s Peregrinating Coins (James T. Stoppard)
Walt Rollins’ Coins Through Table (Walt Rollins)
The Coins And The Matchbooks (Stewart Judah)
The Stack Of Nickels And Die (J.B. Bobo)
The Stack Of Quarters (J.B. Bobo)
Magnetic Stack Of Quarters (Milton Kort)
Chinatown Dollar Routine (Stewart Judah)
The Witch-Doctor’s Coin (Horace Goldin)
Coin On The Stick (J.B. Bobo)
A Copper And Silver Release (Stewart Judah)
The Magic Coin Block Routine (Stewart Judah)
The Flash Silver And Copper (Gerald Bruning) (Bruno)
Quick Change (C. Thomas Magrum)
Knickel Head (Charles Smith)
The Big Nickel (John Giordmaine)
Al Alternate Effect
The Photo Coins (Rolland Hamblen)
The Bowling Coin Wand (J.A. Bowling)
Nail Through Half Dollar (Paul Morris)
Zella’s Space Coins (U.F. “Gen” Grant)
The Phantom Coins (U.F. “Gen” Grant)
Second Method
The Queen Bows (U.F. “Gen” Grant)
Hanktration (Edward Marlo, Takeshi Nemoto)
Made In Japan (Ron Bauer)
Blasted (Louis Tannen)
Blasted, Jr. (Louis Tannen)
Al-‘N’Nate (J.B.Bobo)
The Mulholland Box (John Mulholland)
To Cause Six Coins To Disappear Inside A Closed Box
To Return The Six Coins To The Box
Coin Penetrating Box And Hand
Another Coin Penetration
Paul Fox Coin Cups Routine (Milton Kort)
The O-Korto Box Routine (Milton Kort, Walter Wilson, Ron Bauer)
O-Korto Box Routine No. 2
A Coin Box Routine (Kirk Stiles)
Okito Change For A Half (Milton Kort, Cass Dmuchowski)
Second Version (Milton Kort)
Gag Penetration With An Okito Box (Milton Kort, Ron Bauer)
Okito Box Glittering Finale (Gerald Bruning) (Bruno)
Stewart Judah’s “Mystic Coins” Routine
A Stopper With The Okito Coin Box (John J. Lind)
Okito Box Coin Vanish