Charles Jordan - Just a Square of Paper

jUST A SQUAREOFPAPER (Created and Described by T. Nelson Downs or Charles Jordan) Effect: Showing a piece of dark opaque tissue paper five or six inches square, and hands utterly empty, you cut it in half with a pair of scissors. Placing the oblong halves together, you cut them into square halves again. Opening what are apparently the pieces, the paper is found whole as at first, and is again shown both sides and hands empty An added effect is to paste an initialed stamp or sticker to one corner of paper before beginning, and without substitution, the same stamp is found adhering to that corner when the R paper is unfolded. Self contained and easy.

ner 7 slightly, allow them to slip under this single thickness. Then, unfolding the paper, you have a piece of the same size as when you started, which is really a hollow bag with the cut pieces inside and, wonder of wonders, the stamp still sticks diagonally to the corner where it was originally attached. With the right hand, tear off the single thickness at the corner where the stamp is located and pass it for inspection, the left hand crumpling the rest of the bag and destroying it. You will like this.

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