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Henry Hardin
Henry Hardin (1849 - ), born E. A. Parsons, was a musician and music teacher by profession in New Haven, Connecticut.
He is credited with inventing the Princess Card Trick (some time around 1905) along with many others. Some were described in a special issue of the Jinx (No. 97, june 15, 1940). He also has a few effects in Tarbell Course in Magic books.
In the August 1899 issue of Mahatma (V.3, N° 2), Henry Hardin describes what may be the first description of the Change Bag in print called The Plush Bag.
Henry Hardin may also have been the very first to discover the fact that a card might be concealed in the top of a trousers' pocket when it was pulled out to show its emptiness, publishing it in his "THE APPEARING CARD IN THE POCKET" manuscript.
He was still selling magic effects as late as 1915 in the Sphinx and the new magic society of New Haven stated in the Sphinx that they were trying to get Hardin to attend in 1923.