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Leat’s Supernatural Silk trick

You show an illustrated silk that is not faked in any way and then – by pulling it through a borrowed ring – find that the illustration has changed to an entirely different one. The second image here shows how the illustration has changed. This is a clever idea and the illustrated advertisement includes a patter story from Leat. The advertisement is from Leat’s Leaflets No.30, September 1933. In order not to give the secret away in the advertisement, note that Leat has used a very different image for the transformed figure.

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Size 18 inch square.
Date 1920s or 1930s.
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Ref no N3307