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--- cards:banked_deck [2017/03/18 19:49] – stephenminch
+++ cards:banked_deck [2021/01/16 20:24] – Added Larsen credit. stephenminch
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 Another trick using a banked deck is given by Professor Hoffmann: "To Force three Cards together" from //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18823/More+Magic/27|More Magic]]//, 1890, p. 13, employing a deck consisting of a repeated sequence of three cards. Edward Bagshawe uses a banked deck in "A 'Spirit Divination' Mystery" from //Exclusive Problems in Magic//, 1924, p. 43. Bagshawe's deck had four banks of thirteen cards, each bank containing the same cards in the same order.
-Today, the best-known example of a banked deck is Audley Walsh's "Magician's Dream" deck in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12762/Jinx+No+001+050/315|The Jinx]]//, Apr., 1938, p. 298, an idea later popularized by Al Koran from his marketed "Koran's Miracle Deck", 1962, and frequently miscredited as his invention.
+In 1931 William Larsen (Sr.) published a card divination-location, "Shuffle It Yourself", in a monograph titled //I Won't Play Cards with Him//. This trick used a forty-eight-card deck consisting of four sets of twelve cards. Larsen's ideas were published, without mention of him, by Audley Walsh as "The Magician's Dream" deck in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12762/Jinx+No+001+050/315|The Jinx]]//, No. 43, Apr. 1938, p. 298. Walsh used a different selection of twelve cards, but aside from this and a few small additional ideas, the trick and method are identical to Larsen's. Al Koran also popularized this deck, marketing it as "Koran's Miracle Deck", 1962. Both Walsh and Koran are widely credited with the invention of the deck and its application, while William Larsen, the true inventor, has been almost wholly forgotten.
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