Later Day Tricks
A. Roterberg
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The Disappearing Egg
A CLEVER vanish for an egg, which will be found of good assistance in "The Egg and Bag Trick" and other tricks where it is required to vanish an egg, is performed in the following manner:
A blown egg is sewn up in a black silk bag which is made to fit tightly around the egg. To the upper end of this bag is attached a black thread of about fifteen inches in length, whose other end is fastened near the right arm hole of the vest. The egg thus prepared is then vested. After borrowing a handkerchief and allowing a real, preferably boiled egg to be examined, the performer, by slightly contracting the abdomen, causes the prepared egg to drop out from under the vest, allowing it to hang unperceived behind the handkerchief, which be has spread out in front of his person.
In placing the right hand, which contains the real egg, behind the handkerchief, the prepared egg is seized at the same time and placed in the center of the handkerchief, while the real egg is kept concealed in the right hand. Holding the egg from the outside of the handkerchief with one hand, the performer taps it with the wand to prove that it is actually there. Seizing one corner of the handkerchief, the conjurer states that he will cause it to vanish and appear in the bag (or other apparatus) previously shown empty. Suddenly he releases his hold on the egg, which apparently disappears instantly. The conjurer, who has continued to hold one corner of the handkerchief, immediately spreads the latter out and shows it from both sides. The prepared egg which is swinging in front of the performer's body is not noticed, and is again vested at the first opportunity, the performer running his fingers along the thread, thereby regaining possession of the egg.
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