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Hi all, I'm new here, thought i'd share this new video i came across on youtube to this thread. I thought it was pretty cool, just wanted to see other peoples thoughts on it, pretty mysterious..

We found this trick in a storeroom and it had no instructions with it. Does anyone recognise it? I only have these photos, but I can get more. Images are too large, here is a link to the album: http://imgur.com/a/mcSIJ

there's this one flourish I really wanna learn, but I don't know what it's called it's driving me nuts, I don't know the name!