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Handcuff secrets by harry houdini

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Martin 21 Mar 2016
#1
Looking for the book by houdini callled handcuff secrets. I cant seem to find ot anywhere except in digital form but i want a actual book. Does anyone know if they made reprints and this book actually exists. Many thanks martin. Oh got to add i seen one from 1910 for like £250 i dont want a collectivle one like that just a book for like £10
Steve Mollett 22 Mar 2016
#2
There have been reprints as a companion to The Unmasking of Robert-Houdini, in a single volume.
JackCory 22 Mar 2016
#3
Looking for the book by houdini callled handcuff secrets. I cant seem to find ot anywhere except in digital form but i want a actual book. Does anyone know if they made reprints and this book actually exists. Many thanks martin. Oh got to add i seen one from 1910 for like £250 i dont want a collectivle one like that just a book for like £10
I bought a homemade reprint years ago. I don't recall who sold it to me. I also bought the Conjurors Monthly limited volumes which is where HH wrote most of what ended up in Handcuff Secrets. I have never seen a reprint in book form of Handcuff Secrets for sale.
Nils 03 Apr 2016
#4
Looking for the book by houdini callled handcuff secrets. I cant seem to find ot anywhere except in digital form but i want a actual book. Does anyone know if they made reprints and this book actually exists. Many thanks martin. Oh got to add i seen one from 1910 for like £250 i dont want a collectivle one like that just a book for like £10
Maybe this is interesting to some of you Houdini-Collectors.

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Der-Entfesselung ... SwPc9WyGmK

The first photo shows Houdini (supposedly) in Freiherr von Tren(c)k's shackles. I didn't know they survived.

(More herehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_von_der_Trenck)

Regards
Nils
Martin 03 Apr 2016
#5
Looking for the book by houdini callled handcuff secrets. I cant seem to find ot anywhere except in digital form but i want a actual book. Does anyone know if they made reprints and this book actually exists. Many thanks martin. Oh got to add i seen one from 1910 for like £250 i dont want a collectivle one like that just a book for like £10
Thanks guys. I got a digital version of amazon in the end
Steve Santini 04 Apr 2016
#6
Looking for the book by houdini callled handcuff secrets. I cant seem to find ot anywhere except in digital form but i want a actual book. Does anyone know if they made reprints and this book actually exists. Many thanks martin. Oh got to add i seen one from 1910 for like £250 i dont want a collectivle one like that just a book for like £10
That those irons Houdini is wearing are the same ones worn by Friedrich von der Trenck.

The ones Houdini is wearing seem to me to be cuffs attached to large links of British make.

The same sorts of heavy links used to link very early heavy Darby leg irons and plug leg shackles of the type that the chains just slid on to link them and were not permanently attached.

I would expect Von der Trenck to be shackles with something different.

Steve Santini