Penetration

27 entries in Ball / Billiard Ball / Routines / Penetration
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Filtration Through a Handkerchief
1938
Greater Magic
636
Henry Gordien Knee Penetration
1938
Greater Magic
647
Jean Hugard Mutilation billiard ball penetrates borrowed handkerchief, for repeat it gets stuck and handkerchief is cut and burned, then restored (Hanky Panky)
 		1939
The Jinx (Issue Summer Extra 1939)
413
Jean Hugard The Penetrating Billiard Ball ball penetrating silk, with cut and restored handkerchief element
 		Dec. 1944
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 2 No. 7)
87
Arthur H. Buckley The Ball and the Handkerchief penetration
 		1948
Principles and Deceptions
204
Harry E. Snider Caligari's Billiard Ball Penetration ball penetrates handkerchief, on hand
 		Nov. 1948
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 6)
483
William Satchell William Satchell's Ball and Tube ball goes through tube which is smaller in diameter, three inches in diameter
 		1950
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1950)
32
Harlan Tarbell Billard Ball Through Handkerchief using shell
 		1954
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 6
17
Hans E. Trixer Silk Penetro ball through silk
Also published here 1954
Routined Manipulation Finale
187
Leonard Austin Seen in the News ball penetrates frames sheet of newspaper
 		1956
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1956)
23
Dai Vernon Ball Through Silk
1957
The Dai Vernon Book of Magic
205
Horace E. Bennett The Penetration of the Silk Handkerchief
1968
Prize Winning Magic
68
Ellison Poland, Tony Anverdi, Aaron Black A Ball and Silk Routine billiard ball appears in center of silk, travels around, penetrates handkerchief, changes color, balances on edge of silk, vanishes
 		1969
Wonderful Routines of Magic
19
Ball through Silk
1969
Wonderful Routines of Magic
26
Dai Vernon Ball through Silk
Also published here 1970
Expanded Lecture Notes
20
Jack Posetary Gremlin Glass coin in glass, ball on top, second glass moved in and out and ball jumps to other glass
 		May 1970
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 5 No. 7)
337
Billy McComb Golf Ball comment on golf ball through handkerchief
 		1972
McComb's Magic — 25 Years Wiser
148
Ball Through Handkerchief
1978
The second now you see it, now you don't!
204
Tom Sellers A Billiard Ball Penetration "Retrospective" - Two Tricks
ball on stand covered with silk, then with larger silk, ball is on top when larger silk is removed
 		1979
The Chronicles (Issue 17)
1230
Dai Vernon Ball through Silk
Apr. 1982
Intermagic (Vol. 9 No. 1)
28
George G. Kaplan Die Zauberkugel wooden ball with hole threaded onto thread, instantly removed under silk, ungaffed
Also published here
  • Hugard's Magic Monthly
 Apr. 1988
Intermagic (Vol. 13 No. 4)
167
Hans E. Trixer Silk Penetro ball through silk
Also published here 1998
Intermagic (Vol. 22 No. 2)
74
Jim Steinmeyer Par Two ball in glass, covered with silk, ball penetrates through silk, glass with hole
Inspired by
  • "The Penetrating Ball" (Robert Harbin, Something New in Magic, 1929)
 2009
A Tribute to Robert Harbin
16
Net Effect two billiard balls in fishing net, one penetrates net
 		2011
Prolix (Issue 9)
567
Dai Vernon Ball Through Silk
Nov./Dec. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 11 & 12)
50
Dai Vernon Ball Through Silk
Mar. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 3)
63
Dai Vernon Ball Through Silk
Also published here 2022
Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic
61