Miscellaneous

38 entries in Ball / Miscellaneous
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Unknown La Balle Jettée Dans la Petite Maison à Trois Portes & Sortant Par l'une des Trois à Volonté a ball is thrown in a little house with three doors and is coming out of the chosen door
 		1784 La Magie Blanche Dévoilée 44
Prof. Carlo Arminio Das Färben von Glaskugeln color changing glass spheres/balls, chemical, finger tips with holes in the tip
 		Aug. 1896 Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 1 No. 12) 184
Unknown To Pick a Floating Indiarubber Ball up from a Basin of Water with the Mouth non-magical science experiment
 		1902 The Modern Conjurer 295
Unknown The Flag and Worsted Ball wool ball in glass, cardboard cylinder over another tumbler, silk in tumbler, they transpose
Related to
  • improved from early Mahatma
 1903 Later Magic 357
Carl Willmann The Vanished Cannon-Ball from under cloth covering
 		1903 Later Magic 468
Theodore Annemann The Color-Tell Billiard Balls several different colored balls, one is placed in a box and held by performer behind back, he divines the color
 		1931 The Book Without A Name 51
Tom Sellers Balls and Pillar two balls with a hole are slid over a pillar, a third ball vanishes and appears between the others
 		1939 Scots Magic 18
Val Evans Discs of Dir ball and disc threaded on string, they impossibly change places
 		1939 The Jinx 51-100 (Issue 68) 467
Walter B. Gibson Bewildering Blocks (with a Sucker Finish) prop trick with colored blocks in tube
 		1940 The Jinx 101-151 (Issue 110) 658
Stewart James Sleightly Off threaded ping pong ball is removed underneath cloth
 		1941 The Jinx 101-151 (Issue 134) 767
Walter B. Gibson, Han Ping Chien Gaglets
  • Gibson's wand vanish
  • Han Ping Chien swallowing billard ball vanishes
 		1942 The Phoenix 1-50 (Issue 18) 77
L. Vosburgh Lyons, Theodore Annemann Ball From Beyond steel ball between two soup plates, answers questions
Variations 1942 The Phoenix 1-50 (Issue 20) 83
Mark Jacobs Magnetic Spheres four rubber balls with holes stick together
 		1945 My Best 250
Hen Fetsch Bouncing Milk milk transforms into ball, inside paper cone
 		1946 Milk Pitcher Magic 20
Dr. Raymond V. Stone (RAMO) Now What? Two wooden balls, third one appears in a flash. Then a ball is selected, wrapped in a handkerchief and put in a box, it vanishes from there and appears in a tube with the other two balls.
 		1950 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1950) 6
Nile Rothenbach Wet Cent small balls in tube filled with water are extracted without spilling the water, also with coins
 		1951 The Phoenix 201 — 250 (Issue 226) 904
Harold Blump The Effering Narg Ball balls in box change
 		1954 The New Phoenix 301-348 (Issue 307 Spoof Issue) 1
Stewart James The Gofar Ball ball disappears from a tube, travels to under an inverted tumbler under a second tube
Also published here 1957 Magic Mine No. 1 13
The Great Christe Christe's Rice and Ball Penetration with two glasses, funnel and tray
 		1959 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1959) 30
Jack Bateman Red the Crook ball placed in tumbler, silk changes into ball and inside tumbler the silk is found
 		1970 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1969-70) 26
Pavel Rainbow Balls white balls transform into different colored balls, in bag, off-beat method
 		1970ca. Successful Magic 9
Theo "Okito" Bamberg The Restless Spheres three balls with different colors are placed into a tube where they change the order several times
 		1973 The Oriental Magic of the Bambergs 53
Patrick Page Ping-Pong on the Nose balancing a paper tube on the nose and throwing balls into it
 		1974 Tricks with Paper 15
Bill Chinn A Mental Item five colored balls are selected and divined by blindfolded performer, stooge
 		Oct. 1976 Pabular (Vol. 3 No. 2) 317
Floyd G. Thayer Expanding Ball ball visibly expands, on a stand
 		1976 Classic Magic with Apparatus 206
Theo "Okito" Bamberg Miraculous Ball Vanish balls placed in tube vanish, loop ball
 		1978/76 More Classic Magic with Apparatus 247
Paul Harris Biological Vanish small rubber ball transforms into finger tip
Variations 1980 Close-up Fantasies — Book I 69
Piet Forton Der zauberhafte Farbensinn divination of different colored balls in a bag
 		1983 Je geschickter desto Zauberer 8
Ali Bongo Bongo's Ball- und Würfeltrick dice in a bag changes place with a ball behind cardboard
 		1991 Ali Bongo 3
Karrell Fox The Topper trade show presentations for U.F. Grant's Strat-O-Spheres prop
 		1995 Much Ado About Something 86
David Berglas Turning the Clock Back different effects are performed and noted on a board, at the end, time is turned back and everything undone until the board is blank again
No. 1: Three balls, disappear and change into a pack of cards
No. 2: Four coins vanish and reappear in a glass
No. 3: Signed card vanishes and reappears in photo frame
No. 4: Arrow stops at chosen number 11
 		2002 The Mind & Magic of David Berglas 182
Ali Bongo Sympathetic Colours two spectator selects same colored ball from bag
 		2003 Lecture Notes - Morges 2003 8
Unknown Holding out a Ball Little finger palm of ball
 		2004 Street Cups and Balls 44
Unknown The Classic (False) Pass
2004 Street Cups and Balls 44
Stewart James The Gofar Ball Ball disappears from a tube, travels to under an inverted tumbler under a second tube
Also published here 2007 The Essential Stewart James 131
Trevor Lewis Newton's Nightmares presentation, ball falls through tube fast or slowly,
Inspired by
  • William J. Schmeelk's "Newton's Nightmare"
 2009 Routines Matter 113
Christian Scherer Das Amulett von Mary I little round charm appears from purse frame, it disappears under silk, with the aid of a wand and in the hands, to just reappear always back in the purse frame, eventually the purse frame vanishes
Inspired by 2014 Schlaglichter 143
Max Maven Miraskill Lite done with white and black spheres, two phases
Inspired by 2016 Session Notes 7