Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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cards:mercury_card_fold [2017/06/28 16:57] – external edit 127.0.0.1cards:card_folding_technique [2019/04/28 11:23] – ↷ Page name changed from cards:mercury_card_fold to cards:card_folding_technique denisbehr
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 This sleight was uncredited when it appeared in Jean Hugard and Fred Braue's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12474/Expert+Card+Technique/320|Expert Card Technique]]//, 1940, p. 303. However, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13992/The+Fred+Braue+Notebooks/6|The Fred Braue Notebooks, Volume 3]]//, 1985, p. 3, Braue credits the move to John Scarne. This sleight was uncredited when it appeared in Jean Hugard and Fred Braue's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12474/Expert+Card+Technique/320|Expert Card Technique]]//, 1940, p. 303. However, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13992/The+Fred+Braue+Notebooks/6|The Fred Braue Notebooks, Volume 3]]//, 1985, p. 3, Braue credits the move to John Scarne.
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 +The two-handed Mercury technique was predated by a one-handed folding method. William H. McCaffrey described one in his "Cash and Change-Purse" from //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38392/The+Sphinx/5|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 37 No. 5, July 1938, p. 113.
  
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