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World’s Greatest Magic Silk Magic – Volume 2

World’s Greatest Magic Silk Magic – Volume 2

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Handkerchiefs have been a part of the magician s arsenal at least since the 1500s but it wasn t until the mid-1800s that handkerchiefs made of silk made their appearance as magical apparatus. The first recorded use of silk handkerchiefs in the literature of magic was by none other than Robert-Houdin for a vanishing handkerchief routine (which also coincided with his invention of the first pull.) The first full routine using silks was performed by de Kolta and written up in Professor Hoffman s Later Magic in 1903. At that point, tricks and routines using silks became a very common part of conju

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