Floatation

18 entries in Cigarette & Cigar / Floatation
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli Das Balancieren einer Cigarre cigar balanced on its tip on a plate
 		Sep. 1900
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 6 No. 9)
143
The Cigarette Rising from a Packet and floating into hand, thread
 		1937
The Magic Annual for 1937
26
The Levitation of a Cigar at the fingertips
 		1938
Greater Magic
762
Another Levitation at the fingertips
 		1938
Greater Magic
763
Franklin M. Chapman The Floating Cigarette similar to "old Floating Match"
 		July 1939
Chap's Scrapbook (Vol. 2 No. 1)
4
The Floating Cigar
1941
Reel Magic
48
Laurie Ireland A Suggestion For A New "Levitator" sticky stuff for levitating small objects
 		1942
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1942)
16
Theodore DeLand Floating Smoke cigarette floats in hat, loop passed over it
 		Oct. 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 20)
85
Dr. William Weyeneth Ein unterhaltsamer Tischscherz cigarette is balanced on matchbox, magnetic
 		1949
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 10 No. 1)
4
Jack Yeager Obedient Cigarette burning cigarette is balanced on thumb, then cigarette vanishes in handkerchief, thumb tip with pin
Also published here
  • Jack Yeager's "Second Portfolio of Tricks"
 1951
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1951)
5
Stewart Judah The Divertisements of Stewart Judah article, see following items
 		Nov. 1954
The New Phoenix (Issue 319)
82
Max Malini Adhering Cigar
Nov. 1954
The New Phoenix (Issue 319)
83
Eddie Joseph Levitation of a cigarette, sticking to fingers
 		1959
Cigarette Tricks and Gags at the Bar
7
Karl Norman Smoker's Interludes: I. Magnetic Matches cigarette clings to matchbook
 		1973
Close-up Cavalcade
50
Steve Spillman Cigarette Suspension special thread hook-up
Also published here 1973
"My Hands Can Be Yours"
56
Steve Spillman Cigarette Suspension special thread hook-up
Also published here 1980
The Spill Bar and Grille
58
Levitator sticky substance, "Malini formula?"
 		1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2)
30
Ben Harris Cosmosis match floats over a playing card
  • The Basic Principle
  • The Supplied Props
  • Making Up a Cosmosis Card
  • The Basic Handling
  • Introducing the Card
  • Pre-Flexing the Card
  • Basic Rise #1
  • The One Handed Rise
  • In the Spectator's Hands
  • Off the Table
  • Under a Glass
  • The Seance Presentation
  • The Bus Ticket
  • The Jumbo Card (rising a cigarette or business card)
  • Basic Rise #2
  • The Curly Rise
  • Let Them Take the Match!
  • Notes
Variations 1986
Cosmosis
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