Improved 20th Century Silk
By Manger

A flag is knotted to a red silk. The flag is then folded, leaving the red striped corner of the flag out. The folds are held together with a piece of silk thread. The prepared red silk, a blue silk, an envelope, a pencil and a duplicate flag are on your table.

The performer picks up the prepared red silk in his left hand, maskinq the secret bundle, and the blue silk in his right hand. He ties the blue to the red--really to the red corner of the concealed flag. The two silks are held at the point of knotting in the left hand. He asks a spectator to examine the envelope and to push a hole through the center of it with the pencil. He now puts the knotted silks in the envelopes, and shoves a corner of the blue silk out through one hole, a corner of the red out through the other.

The performer seals the envelope. The extending silks are pulled out further and a spectator holds them between his hands. The magician vanishes the duplicate flag by a body pull or some other piece of apparatus. The spectator is told to pull on the ends of the silks extending from the envelope. He does and the flag appears knotted between the two silks. There is no clue to the mystery in the envelope. Everything may be examined. The illustration makes the handling clear. Figure 1 shows how the flag and red silk are prepared. 2 illustrates how the red silk is held for the tying, 3 shows how the silks protrude from the envelope, 4 shows the climax as the flag appears.