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 ====== Asymmetric Card Transposition ======
-Theodore Deland's "Sphinx Card Trick," 1909, may be the first example of this effect (this was found by Denis Behr). The earliest ad for it seems to be by W. D. Leroy and appears in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38161/The+Sphinx/17|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 8 No. 5, July 1909, p. 97. Ellis Stanyon advertised it in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16715/Stanyon+s+Magic+Vol+09+No+12/3|Magic]]//, Vol. 9 No. 12, Sep. 1909, p. 91. In both ads, it is clearly stated to be DeLand's trick. Curiously, you can find a brief description of it in Karl Fulves's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13084/Ellis+Stanyon+s+Best+Card+Tricks/151|Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks]]//, 1999, p. 132. Three cards were placed in a hat and one removed and put into the deck. When the hat was next checked, it contained the one card seen removed, and the other two were found in the deck. Misprinted gaffs were used. A variant, "The Renovated Sphinx Card Trick," was contributed by Eddie Clever to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15697/Jinx+No+009/2|The Jinx]]//, No. 9, June 1935, p. 34.
+Theodore Deland's "Sphinx Card Trick," 1909, may be the first example of this effect. The earliest ad for it seems to be by W. D. Leroy and appears in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38161/The+Sphinx/17|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 8 No. 5, July 1909, p. 97. Ellis Stanyon advertised it in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16715/Stanyon+s+Magic+Vol+09+No+12/3|Magic]]//, Vol. 9 No. 12, Sep. 1909, p. 91. In both ads, it is clearly stated to be DeLand's trick. Curiously, you can find a brief description of it in Karl Fulves's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13084/Ellis+Stanyon+s+Best+Card+Tricks/151|Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks]]//, 1999, p. 132. Three cards were placed in a hat and one removed and put into the deck. When the hat was next checked, it contained the one card seen removed, and the other two were found in the deck. Misprinted gaffs were used. A variant, "The Renovated Sphinx Card Trick," was contributed by Eddie Clever to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15697/Jinx+No+009/2|The Jinx]]//, No. 9, June 1935, p. 34.
 The first non-gimmicked method seems to be by Karl Fulves; see "Four Gone," in his //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13013/Notes+from+Underground+Card+Tricks/56|Notes from Underground]]//, 1973, p. 53.
-  * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/show.php?cat=1281|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]]
+===== Precursor =====
+Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser had an effect "Drei ist Eins" ("Three is One"), which was mentioned in passing without details in Ottokar Fischer's book //[[https://askalexander.org/display/15020/J+N+Hofzinser+Kartenkunste/228|J. N. Hofzinser Kartenkünste]]//, 1910, p. 215. The whole effect was finally published by Magic Christian in his //[[https://askalexander.org/display/7924/Johann+Nepomuk+Hofzinser+1806+1875+Non+Plus+Ultra/192|J. N. Hofzinser: Non Plus Ultra, Vol. II, ]]//, 2004, p. 192. In this effect, a chosen card is placed aside. Then three unknown cards are taken from the deck. One by one they are shown to be duplicates of the selection. Then all three are placed on top of the deck. The chosen card is turned over and is seen to consist not of one, but three indifferent cards. On top of the deck, the selection is found. While this effect has the elements of an asymmetric transposition, this aspect is not clearly worked out as the three cards are never shown at the beginning.
+  * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/category/2106|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]]
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