Apparatus magic was the theme
of the night and Andrew Pickard, better known as Warden, was the host.
He opened the session with a
clever penetration trick, The Great Wong’, acquired from the late Konni
Rooklyn. A card with a hole through the
middle, was positioned on a stand. A
scroll of Chinese writing was unrolled, rerolled and placed in the stand. The card penetrated the scroll
David Whitson, our president,
was next with a sliding die box. An
oldie but a goodie
Noel Clair gave an excellent
demonstration of the ring on the string.
Using perfect sleight-of-hand, he made the ring disappear, reappear and
change positions. He finished with his
world famous ‘four coin trick’ where coins magically go from one hand to the
other
Our latest new member Geoff
Clark finished the show with a medley of apparatus tricks. Using an apparatus which could be freely
examined, moved coins from one side of the table to the other. Quick, neat and effective
A chosen card was revealed in
a plastic sleeve which was self illuminating.
An excellent method of a card revelation not seen before
It was a good night with a
combination of apparatus tricks combined with good, old fashioned
sleight-of-hand
As one well known magician once
said…'Of all the magic in the land, give me clever sleight-of-hand’
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