One of the most useful accessories in card conjuring is the Card Box, Fig. 49, which is invaluable for causing cards to appear, vanish or change into others. To all appearances it is a plain box of polished wood, consisting of the parts A and B hinged together, either of which will serve as top [...]
There are two kinds of False Shuffles. The first kind aims to keep in view one or several cards only, while the remainder of the pack is given a genuine shuffle. In the other False Shuffle the entire pack, which is generally prearranged, is kept in the same order throughout. The various methods by which [...]
In this sleight, which is mostly used as a finale to a card trick, the pack (which is held face downward) is dropped on the floor or table. As this occurs a card (usually a selected one) appears at the top of the pack, reversing itself during this operation so that it now lays face [...]
The glide is a simple but useful form of the Change, where the bottom card of the pack is apparently removed and placed on the table. In reality, the performer takes the second card from the bottom instead. The performer first holds the pack in a perpendicular position, thus exhibiting the bottom card. The hand [...]
Gamblers use the bridge extensively in causing their opponent to cut the cards at a certain place desired by the operator. However in conjuring, the bridge serves principally to discover a selected card that has been replaced and shuffled into the pack by the spectators themselves. As this result cannot be attained by any other [...]
By the Glimpse, we mean the sleight of secretly looking at the selected card that has been placed in the pack, or at a card that will later be forced. First Method In this the regular form of the sleight, the little finger of the left hand is inserted below the chosen card while the [...]
In describing the following methods of discovering the name of a card that a spectator has secretly thought of, I take great pleasure in making my readers acquainted with some of the most interesting and undetectable sleights in the whole range of conjuring. First Method In this form of the trick the performer takes a [...]
The sleight, or rather flourish, of this title has become quite popular with the conjurers of this country lately. Some have attained a wonderful proficiency in performing it, and have elaborated the original idea considerably. Two descriptions on how to do this skill will be provided – the first as written by A. Roterberg, and [...]
This sleight, (to the best of my knowledge the invention of Mr. Buatier Dekolta), is a vast improvement over the regular palm as the pack is never touched with the right hand at all. The pack is held in the left hand, the cards to be palmed being divided off from the rest of the [...]
To secretly obtain possession of a selected card which has been brought to the top of the pack by means of the pass, a magician commonly used a palm. Two descriptions on how to do this will be provided – the first as written by A. Roterberg, and the second by Howard Thurston. A. Roterberg’s [...]