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 ======Buckle Count======
-The first published description of the Buckle Count is believed to be within the context of a routine titled "Solo Flight Aces" in Hugard and Braue's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12474/Expert+Card+Technique/272|Expert Card Technique]]// (1940, see p. 255). This routine combines the Stanley Collins's Ace Vanish with a second sequence using the Buckle Count, credited to Dai Vernon. Nine years later, the Buckle Count was described in another Vernon trick, "Mental Card Miracle", in Series 5 No. 3 of //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18141/Stars+of+Magic/85|Stars of Magic]]// (1949). The Buckle Count was also credited to Vernon by Lewis Ganson in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/17405/Dai+Vernon+s+More+Inner+Secrets+of+Card+Magic/88|Dai Vernon's More Inner Secrets of Card Magic]]// (1960, p. 86), where it is stated that Vernon devised it over thirty years earlier. Vernon also told a number of cardmen, including Edward Marlo, that the Buckle Count was his invention. Curiously, about thirty years after the Ganson book had been published, Vernon contradicted all this, saying he had not come up with the Buckle Count. When asked who did, during the taping of the //Revelations// videos (1982), he said he thought it was Elmer Biddle, which is almost surely not correct. At that time, Vernon was around eighty-eight years old and his memory, although admirable, was probably muddled on this point. On other occasions, later in the 1980s, when asked the same question, he simply could not remember.
+The first published description of the Buckle Count is believed to be within the context of a routine titled "Solo Flight Aces" in Hugard and Braue's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12474/Expert+Card+Technique/272|Expert Card Technique]]// (1940, see p. 255). This routine combines the Stanley Collins's Ace Vanish with a second sequence using the Buckle Count, credited to Dai Vernon. Nine years later, the Buckle Count was described in another Vernon trick, "Mental Card Miracle", in Series 5 No. 3 of //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18141/Stars+of+Magic/85|Stars of Magic]]// (1949). The Buckle Count was also credited to Vernon by Lewis Ganson in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/17405/Dai+Vernon+s+More+Inner+Secrets+of+Card+Magic/88|Dai Vernon's More Inner Secrets of Card Magic]]// (1960, p. 86), where it is stated that Vernon devised it over thirty years earlier. Vernon also told a number of cardmen, including Edward Marlo, that the Buckle Count was his invention. Curiously, ten years after the Ganson book was published, Vernon contradicted all this. In //[[https://askalexander.org/display/13719/Expanded+Lecture+Notes/9|Dai Vernon's Expanded Lecture Notes]]// (1970, p. 8) the Buckle Count is referred to as the "Six Card Repeat Count" and is credited to John Booth. However, Booth explained in correspondence with Stephen Minch that he used a Push-off, not a buckling action, for his Six-Card Repeat Count. This information is detailed in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/13102/More+Lost+Inner+Secrets/54|The Vernon Chronicles]]//, Vol 2, 1988, p. 23. When Vernon was asked, during the taping of the //Revelations// videos (1982), who invented the Buckle Count, he said he thought it was Elmer Biddle, which is almost surely not correct. At that time, Vernon was around eighty-eight years old and his memory, although admirable, was probably muddled on this point. On other occasions, later in the 1980s, when asked the same question, he simply could not remember.
 Bart Whaley, in his //[[http://askalexander.org/display/39276/The+Encyclopedic+Dictionary+of+Magic/117|Encyclopedic Dictionary of Magic]]//, states that Charlie Miller wrote in the 1930s that he had been taught the Buckle Count by A. J. Cantu. Regrettably, Whaley gives no source for this information. It was likely drawn from correspondence by Miller. Until this source can be located and evaluated, given the earlier published and private claims that the sleight is Vernon's, parsimony would leave the credit at his feet. For another recounting of the history of this sleight, see Jon Racherbaumer's essay, "What about the Buckle Count?", in the April 1992 issue of //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10986/Olram+File/188|The Olram File]]// (Vol. 1 No. 11, unpaginated).

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