THE VANISHING SIXPENCE.
The conjurer brings forward a tray lined with a sheet of white paper, upon which he has a glass tumbler upside down, also a cone made of paper to cover the tumbler with. Asking for a sixpence, he places it upon the tray, and announces his intention of making it disappear whilst surrounded by the audience oh all sides. Placing the paper cone over the glass, he lifts the glass, and, placing it upon the sixpence, lie removes the paper cone, when, to the surprise of the beholders, the coin has entirely vanished, leaving no trace whatever.
To do this you prepare a tumbler by gumming a -piece of white paper over the top, and neatly cut round the brim with a pair of scissors. Now, take a paper cone to hide the tumbler, and you will find that when the cone and tumbler are placed on the sixpence, the latter seems to have disappeared, owing to the paper top of the tumbler being quite indistinguishable from the paper with which the tray is covered. Of course, colored will do as well, provided you use the same color for the top of the glass. Do not lift the tumbler more than a few inches from the tray, otherwise you are liable to “give the show awav:”
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Waipa Post, Volume VIII, Issue 347, 8 September 1914, Page 7
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219THE VANISHING SIXPENCE. Waipa Post, Volume VIII, Issue 347, 8 September 1914, Page 7
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