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 ====== Card Box ======
-The switching card box was described being built into tea caddies within John Gale's book, //Gale's Cabinet of Knowledge; or, Miscellaneous Recreations//, 1796, p. 127. In the same book, Gale also describes the concept in the context of switching out a piece of paper from a snuff box (see p. 143).
+The switching card box was described as being built into tea caddies within Henri Decremps's, //La Magie Blanche Dévoilée//, 1784, p. 63 of the English translation. In the same book, Decremps also details the concept in the context of making the ashes from a burnt card vanish (p. 16), and switching out a piece of paper from a snuff box (p. 24).
 The box appeared several times in the 19th century as well, including in Sena Sama and Hamed Ben-Ali's //The Whole Art of Legerdemain; or Hocus Pocus Laid Open and Explained//, 1830, p. 24, and in a torn and restored trick called "The Letter" in R.P's //Ein Spiel Karten//, 1853, p. 27 of the Pieper translation.

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