Color-Changing Knives: Difference between revisions

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Color-Changing Knives is an effect where a pocket knife changes color as it is pushed through the fist.

Effect is usually credited to Walter Cerretta Jeans, but that remains uncertain as no record has been found yet.^[1]

A set of knives was marketed in 1935 as "The Juggling Knives".^[2]

Ascanio's World of Knives by Jose de la Torre (1975) - a translation of parts of "Navajas Y Daltonismo" by Arturo de Ascanio y Navaz (1958)

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 [[Color-Changing Knives]] is an effect where a pocket knife changes color as it is pushed through the fist.
-Effect is usually credited to [[Walter Cerretta Jeans]].
+Magicians known for performing: [[Ascanio]], [[Fred Kaps]], [[René Lavand]], [[Matt Schulien]].
-A set was marketed around 1935 as "The Juggling Knives".
+Effect is usually credited to [[Walter Cerretta Jeans]], but that remains uncertain as no record has been found yet.<ref>http://www.conjuringcredits.com/doku.php?id=misc:color-changing_knife</ref>
-Magicians known for performing: [[Ascanio]], [[Fred Kaps]], [[René Lavand]], [[Matt Schulien]].
+A set of knives was marketed in 1935 as "The Juggling Knives".<ref>The Linking Ring, Vol. 15 no. 10 (December 1935)</ref>
 == Makers ==
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 * [[Ascanio's World of Knives]]  by [[Jose de la Torre]] (1975) - a translation of parts of "Navajas Y Daltonismo" by Arturo de Ascanio y Navaz (1958)
-== References ==
+{{References}}
 *[http://magicref.tripod.com/magref/magknife.htm Doug Atkinson's Magic Reference Pages]
 [[Category:Prop]]