Just thought I'd share something with you guy's which I found amusing if not a little coincidental.

The other week I found an old copy of a paper back booklet, t. nelson downs coin magic on e-bay....it dates back from 1941. I won the bid for it and it was delivered late last week. It has a description of the famous "misers dream" which was as you know performed using a top hat.

I met up with a friend of mine who I haven't seen for some time last night and he gave me a present.....he'd found an old victorian top hat (one that folds flat) thought I'd like it. How bizzare is that?

I,m kinda getting the feeling someone, somwhere want's me to learn misers dream. It is something I have been meaning to do for ages. Do you reckon god is a coin freak too?

The top hat makes me look like slash from guns and roses though..he he!

Slash doing the Miser's Dream... There is something in there...
Good work!
Jonathan.

You have the hat...

DO NOT DROP HEAVY COINS IN!

There is another trick or two using a had and a few coins that you might want to start practicing.

Again, dropping heavy coins into a fine silk hat may damage the hat.

If you look carefully at the Downs book you will find the hat he used was NOT a collapsing top hat. You may have a wonderful working antique there, be nice to it!

Hi Johnathan,

I must admit that it did occur to me that this one probably wouuldn't give the right sort of sound but not the fact that I may damage the hat...thanks for pointing that out. Any sugestions as to where how I could get away with using it?

Chris

The two routines I was suggesting you look at were The Ramsay three coins in the hat, and a simpler version of the misers dream where you put something like a metal cup into the hat before you start dropping things in. :o)

Thank's I'll check into those

I seem to recall reading that magicians used to put a china saucer or bread plate in the hat first, to give the coins something against which to make noise. That may protect the hat as well.

If you take a few silver dollars
and drop them onto a china saucer
you will hear a sad noise
and have broken china saucer.