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Instructions, routines, tips, and ideas for a card punch.

This is a series of letters to a fictitious E.N. Igami ('imagine' when read reversed) with information on how to use a card punch and what can be done with it, particularly from a conjurer's perspective. It is one of the few resources available on card punches. It also reproduces a few passages from older books that cover punch work.

Several gambling demonstrations are detailed, including a Dai Vernon Bridge Deal as well as poker and blackjack routines. Other routines have more of a mental slant. Ray Grismer also explains his system for placement...

instantly re-set. Lastly, you can perform the effect using the spectator's hands ... The hallmark of all Ray Grismer items is the simplicity of the method and Shorty is no exception. ... Highly recommended." - Alan Marcus

"The effect is achieved by means of specially gimmicked bills plus a Dai Vernon move for handling which is simple to do and is absolutely clean cut in effect - a five dollar bill and a one dollar bill simply disappear and reappear without any obvious chicanery ... Highly recommended." - Eddie Dawes

Brick Tilley created a streamline presentation with Bug House.

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This hard-to-find book of eleven clever card effects was ahead of its time and still plays well to today's audiences. While not self-working, magicians with ordinary card ability can do them all.

The effects include:

• An Instantaneous Detection
• The Haunted Whisper
• The Hazy Pips
• From Another Deck
• A Joker Location
• Another Joker Location
• Blowing the Pips
• A New Reverse Location
• Upside Down
• The Phantom Pips
• Topsy-Turvy Location

Acclaimed by close-up masters including Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller, McMillen and Brown were known as the most skillful card performers on the Pacific coast. Those who knew...

• ... 44).
• The greatest technique in all of magic (and its sisters and brothers)...magicians never take real advantage of this deep subterfuge (Episode 45).
• The five levels of presentation and why magicians can never seem to grasp this one idea (Episode 46)
• What everyone still gets wrong about Dai Vernon... and how even a mentor of mine reversed his position after listening to this podcast (Episode 47)
• The one thing I've long noticed about Vernon performing the Cups 'n Balls (which almost no magician understands) and can improve your performance by at least 62% (Episode 48).
• How I conspired...

Excerpt from the Foreword:

In this publication, Impey describes how to wax together pairs of cards, a technique that Dai Vernon would later refine with rough-and-smooth to create his famous Brainwave deck. Judson Brown is generally credited with inventing the basic brainwave-type effect using Impey's waxed cards...

• PREFACE
• SECRET REVERSE ON TABLE / Russell Barnhart
• REVERSAL OF BOTTOM CARDS / Dai Vernon
• THE ACTION CENTER REVERSE / James Steranko
• APPLIED TABLED REVERSE & EFFECT / Edward Marlo
• NO FRILLS TRIUMPH / Edward Marlo
• FINESSED TABLED REVERSE...

Pet secrets of some of the most celebrated close-up magicians of all time.

• Preface: Close-Up Magic by Bert Allerton
• What Makes a Trick by Al Baker
• Bottoms Down by Al Baker
• Mobilizing the Aces by Dai Vernon
• Ball, Cone and Handkerchief by Dai Vernon
• Convening Kings by Francis Carlyle
• The Squeeze-Away Coin by Ross Bertram
• And the Part of a Garment by Emil Jarrow
• Card Effect With Two Packs by Nate Leipzig
• The Disconcerting Coins by Cliff Green
• Precognition by Cliff Green
• Scarne's Power of Thought by John Scarne
• The Coin Roll Vanish by Paul LePaul
• The Revolving Pass by Slydini
• Jacob's Ladder by Dr. Jacob Daley
• The Salt Trick by Dr. Jacob Daley
• Pop-Up Coins by S. Leo Horowitz ...

Moving along, I will explore some lesser-known ploys and updates which can be applied to the Vernon 5 Card Psychological Force, which is actually done wrongly by many otherwise well-posted magicians. Finally, I explore the idea of doing Equivoque and the Vernon 5 at the same time with 2 identical packets and achieving synchronicity.

In Addendum, I'll include a short article on the drawing...

Consistent with Ed's pattern in the New Tops, his most important contribution is last, in the Trick Annual. "The Cigar Bottom Deal" article is too often overlooked but contains gems of Marlo thinking on deals. Wesley is forever indebted to Ed for his "Pseudo Full Grip" technique,...

• Conjurer's Printing / Max Sterling
• Purely Personal
• Programme / Tom Jersey
• Lightning Humorous Cartooning / Lionel Klimsch
• Professional Movements
• In Open Council
• How to Become a Magician / Frank Holmes
• A Striking Match Effect

Number 29 (December 17th, 1913)

• Preserving Secrets / Vernon Foster
• Purely Personal
• Between Ourselves
• Programme - Mahatma
• Practical Magci / Mons. Picitt, Edward H. Taylor, Franz E. Eaton Fearn
• Professional Movements
• In Open Council
• How to become a Magician / Frank Holmes
• Magical Reviews
• Society Notes

Number 30 (December 24th, 1913) ...

A brief excursus on the types of communication and its three components (verbal, non-verbal, paraverbal), a short journey into the world of NLP, followed by simple NLP experiments, applied precisely to illusionism. From NLP to forcing the magician, the step is not so long, and then Vernon, and then Cassidy.

At this point, another analysis begins: who is the mentalist, and what does he do; the mentalist reads your mind, how? And from here another phase of study on the powers of mentalists and the modalities of revelation, passing through extrasensory perception, spiritualism,...

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   • Why Do You Create?
56. Dealing with It - John Bannon
    • online video file available - Dealing With It - John Bannon - No Cigar
    • (Close, But ... ) No Cigar
62. Magicana - Jonathan Friedman
    62. online video file available - Video Magicana - Jonathan Friedman
    62. Ectoplasmic Aces - Dai Vernon
    65. Model UN - Leo Reed
    69. Nowhere to Palm - Calvin Sze
72. The Academy of Magical Arts in Genii - Knights at The Magic Castle
    • Happy Birthday, Milt! - Max Maven
76. Light from the Lamp - Reviews
    76. Tricks Reviewed by Brad Henderson
        • P.O. Box - Nick Diffatte
        • Frost - Mikey V & Abstract Effects
        • D.Deck - Dominique Duvivier
        • Perfect Poker - Dominique Duvivier
        • Box Pad - Gary James & Chris Congreave
        • Devil's Bandana - Lee Alex
    79. Books Reviewed by Tom Frame

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   • ... Organ Pipes
28. Conjuring - Jim Steinmeyer
    • Cutting An Unwilling Spectator in Half
32. Cardopolis - David Britland
    • A Good Guess
35. Eugene's Notebook - In Which Eugene Burger and Jeff McBride Have a Chat - Eugene Burger
    • online video file available - Eugene's Notebook - Dai Vernon - Eugene Burger
    • Dai Vernon
36. Panmagium - Jonathan Pendragon
    • Realization
38. The Expert at the Kids' Table - David Kaye
    • What's Your Elephant? Part 1
42. Invisible Strings - Helder Guimarães
    • No Sleight at All
52. Hidden Treasures - Bob Read
    • It's a Wrap
58. Lodestones - Tom Stone
    • online video file available - Lodestones - Tom Stone - Standing Rock
    • Standing Rock
62. Magicana - John Guastaferro
    62. online video file available - Video Magicana - John Guastaferro
    62. Blackjack for Brother John - David Kuraya
    65. T&R Newspaper Test - Sylvia...

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   54. online video file available - Modern Magicana - Andi Gladwin
   54. Loser! - Dave Forrest
   55. Made to Measure - Shiv Duggal
   55. online video file available - Made to Measure - Shiv Duggal
   57. Double Duke - Michal Kocio?ek
60. The Forgotten Stars of Magic
    62. Ball, cone and Handkerchief - Dai Vernon
    62. online video file available - Ball, Cone and Handkerchief - Dai Vernon
    63. Convening Kings - Francis Carlyle
    65. The Squeeze - Away Coin - Ross Bertram
    65. online video file available - Ross Bertram's The Squeeze-Away Coin
    66. And the Part of a Garment - Two Stunts - Emil Jarrow
    67. Jacob's Ladder - Dr. Jacob Daley
    68. The Disconcerting Coins - Cliff Green
    69. The Revolving Pass - Tony Slydini
    70. A Quarter and a Half - Mohammed Bey (S. Leo Horowitz)
    71. Scarne's Power of Thought - John Scarne
    72. Close-Up Magic - Bert Allerton
76. Magic Chicago:...

give a polished performance. As a professional magician, I consider this book a 'must.'" - Jay Marshall

• Preface
• CHAPTER 1 Novel Effects All Designed for Close-Up Performing
  • JIM-DANDY VANISHER [Jim Shannon]
  • POP-OFF [W. Bowman]
  • A TWIST THROUGH THE WRIST [John Boyko]
  • NICKEL-PLATED [Derek Vernon
  • PURSE [Bill Nord]
  • RISE [H. G. Frank]
  • REUNION [Don Tanner
  • VARIANT [John P. Hamilton]
  • ANOTHER RISE [Carlo Rossetti]
  • GHOST THIMBLE [John A. M. Howie]
  • BOLT AND FRAME [G. Legman]
  • THE LOTUS [G. Legman]
  • LOTUS AND BOW-TIE [G. Legman]
• CHAPTER 2 Conjuring with Coins and Paper Money
  • PENNY-TRATION [Harry Baker]
  • WRAPAROUND VANISH
  • FADEAWAY
  • SITTING VANISH [Bill Simon]
  • BACK PALM SWITCH [Charles Eastman
  • SILVER-COPPER [Dr. Theodore Sack]
  • HANK DROPPER [E. Brian MacCarthy]
  • REWARD [John A. M. Howie]
  • THE HARD WAY [Stewart...

• ... My Hands
• Just Make A Wish
• Just Make Believe
• Kinda Mysterious
• Kung Fu Do As I Do
• Lark Hill Opener!
• Mind To Mind
• Moving On Up
• My Luck And Your Thought
• Neither Short Sighted Nor Mad!
• On The Up, Up, Up!
• One Thought, One Outcome
• Opening Number
• Piggy In The Middle
• Problem Solving
• Pseudo Vernon
• Quattro!
• Ribbon Spread Force
• Sans Stackus
• Shh... It's A Mystery
• Simple Fusion
• Split And Spread Control
• The Summer Of '76
• S.W.I. Interchange
• Tag Team Holdout
• Take Her Home And Poker
• The Card That Tells The Future
• The Hands Off 'Dribble' Force
• The Paradox Card
• The Teleport Card ...

Dai Vernon's Twisting The Aces, has for decades been regarded as an all-time classic and thankfully, the new wave of 21st Century card experts still carry the torch for this perennial favourite. Over the years, new additions and presentations are published, adding even further interest to this wonderful effect.

Australian card man Ian Baxter admits to having performed TTA for sixty years, starting just three years following its publication in 1960. Up until recently, he performed it totally 'as is' from Dai Vernon's More Inner Secrets Of Card Magic.

"Tampering with a Vernon treasure such as TTA, can often promote controversy" admits Baxter....

• ...The Incomplete Faro - Vol 3, No 9, September 1963
  • The Incomplete Location
  • The Incomplete Stop
  • Incomplete Power Of Thought
  • Incomplete Double Disclosure
• WJ on the Incomplete Faro
• A Table Pass - Vol 3, No 10, October 1963
  • Variations
• WJ on the Table Pass
  • Table Pass Notes
    • Erdnase Shift, One Hand
    • The Erdnase Description
    • Christ/Vernon Shift
    • Curry Shift
    • The James Shift
    • The Diamond Shift Stratagem
• The Homing Card - Vol 3, No 11, November 1963
  • Alternative Endings - FIRST METHOD
  • Second Presentation
• WJ on Homing Card
• Gad-About Aces - Vol. 3, No. 12, December 1963
  • Marlo Flexible Count
• WJ on Gad-About Aces ...

1. ... William's Client and Friend - Jay Alexander Interviewed by Jim Steinmeyer
   • Magic in the Classroom - Dale Salwak
72. Locks Don't Lock Lockman - Dustin Stinett
    • online video file available - Lockman
82. Light from the Lamp - Reviews
    82. Books Reviewed by David Britland
        • The Vernon Companion - Michael A. Perovich
        • Treacherous Impuzzibilities - Jim Steinmeyer
        • The Sense of Wonder - Robert E. Neale
        • Charles Dickens Magician - Ian Keable
    85. Videos Reviewed by Dustin Stinett
        • Totally Whacked - Steve Mayhew
        • The Rings - Chris Capehart
        • The False Shuffles and Cuts Project - Liam Montier
        • Ahead of the Game (2-disc Set) - Jonathan Levit
        • The Magic of Suzanne! The Castle Act (2-disc set) - Suzanne
    88. Tricks Reviewed by David Regal
        • Water Works - Uday...

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   • Blankety - Liam Montier - card effect
   • Sharpie Screen - Alan Rorrison - smart phone effect
   • Hocus Pocus Practice Focus: The Making of a Magician - Amy Kimlat - book
   • Cylinder and Coins - Joshua Jay - coin effect
   • Borrowed Deck Miracles - Dani DaOrtiz - workshop/lecture video
   • Unheard Vernon - Vanishing, Inc. - Audio & PDF downloads
   • N9 - N2G - coin effect
   • Bounce - Juan Luis Rubiales - card and ball effect
   • The Turnover Pass - Biz - card move
   • You're Only Lying to Yourself - Luke Jermay - book and download
   • Flip - Wes Iseli - coin effect
   • Jim Steinmeyer Masterclass...

A remarkable transition effect using unprepared objects and little sleight of hand.

Four Queens from any pack are placed on the four corners of a square cloth. Two of the Queens are covered with squares of paper. One at a time, the Queens are put beneath the cloth thru which they penetrate and come up under the square of paper. It is amazing to see the identical card make the passage and appear under the paper along with the others, until all four are assembled under one paper.

Vernon's original methods and several puzzling variations - different from anything ever offered, no extra...

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   1. ... Cards in Motion - Soma Entertainment
   11. online audio file available – Speaking of Max [Maven]
   11. online video file available – More Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
12. On the Slant – Jon Racherbaumer
    • online audio file available - On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Touching on Another Vernon Touch
14. Now Performing
18. The Genii Session – Roberto Giobbi
    • Assemblage IV
    • online video file available - The Genii Session - The Fred Kaps Flick - Robert Giobbi
21. Cardopolis – David Britland
    • Super Memory Remembered
22. The Expert at the Kid’s Table – David Kaye
    • Mentalism is the New Kid’s Show
28. The Chamber of Secrets – John Gaughan as told to Dustin Stinett
    • The Rising Florin
30. DaOrtiz al la Carte! – Dani DaOrtiz
    • The Fan Force
    • online video file available - DaOrtiz a la Carte! - The Fan...

The All Backs Motif is odd. For one thing, it casts a revealing light on we magician's claim (when it suits our purpose) that we use ordinary cards. That is our decks, which we prefer to borrow, consist of cards that have faces and backs on both sides. Therefore, if we show a deck that consists of all backs and faces we are admitting that such anomalies exist and the cards being used are probably gimmicked in some way. Why do this?

A better question may be - What motivated someone to create such an effect using this kind of deck? That "someone" was Dai Vernon and my guess is that he wanted to...