John Ramsay's Cylinder and Coins by John Ramsay & Victor Farelli

Excerpt from the preface by John Ramsay:

It is now over fifty years since I started to experiment with the Cap and Pence trick, and I have worked out several methods of using the standard apparatus.

The present routine, lucidly and minutely explained by Victor Farelli, is not the result of a "brain wave" it was gradually evolved by a process of trial and error, and I trust that the reader will decide to study it thoroughly and that he will add it to his programme.

For the last thirty years, or more, it has been one of my favourite close work effects, and I have shown it to some of the world's most famous magicians in America, including Al Baker, T. Nelson Downs, Max Holden, Jean Hugard, Ralph Hull, Nate Leipzig, Sid Lorraine and John Mulholland, and to hundreds of conjurers in Scotland, England and on the continent of Europe. Not one of them claimed to have followed the "moves" or to have understood the exact method of working.

Apart from the coin manipulations described in Sections X to XVIII, there is nothing really difficult in the trick, or beyond the skill of the average magician. The manipulations in question are certainly hard to acquire, but they can be replaced by sleights with which the reader is already familiar, without detracting from the actual climax of the trick, or making it less entertaining.

PREFACE
ROUGH OUTLINE OF THE EFFECT
REQUIREMENTS
ARRANGEMENT
THE ROUTINE
I. The First Feint
II. The Second Feint
III. Fanning The Coins
IV. Passing The Cork Through The Cylinder
V. Showing The Cylinder Empty
VI. Showing That The Four Coins Are Separate
VII. Dropping Coins Through Cylinder
VIII. Passing The Cork Through The Cylinder
IX. Position
X. Disappearance Of First Coin
XI. Interlude Coin Through Hand
XII. Disappearance Of Second Coin
XIII. Showing "All Clear"
XIV. Disappearance Of Third Coin
XV. Disappearance Of Fourth Coin
XVI. Coins and Cork Under Cylinder
XVII. Secret Transfer Of Coins From Hand To Hand
XVIII. Covering The "Stack"
XIX. Re-appearance Of First Coin
XX. The Second and Third Coins
XXI. The Fourth Coin
XXII. Re-appearance Of Cork
XXIII. "Packing Up"
A FINAL "TIP"
1st edition 1948, 36 pages; PDF 33 pages.
word count: 4534 which is equivalent to 18 standard pages of text