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 ====== Card in Box ====== ====== Card in Box ======
  
-Finding a selected card folded up in a box, albeit with a duplicate card, dates back to at least the 18th century. It appeared in the anonymous //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38803/Gibeci+re/87|Asti Manuscript]]//, c. 1700, p. 86 of the Pieper translation. This manuscript was translated in //Gibecière//, Vol. 8 No. 1, Winter 2013, p. 29-234.+Finding a selected card folded up in a box, made possible through the use of a duplicate card, dates back at least to the eighteenth century. It appeared in the anonymous //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38803/Gibeci+re/87|Asti Manuscript]]//, c. 1700, p. 86 of the Pieper translation. This manuscript was translated into English in //Gibecière//, Vol. 8 No. 1, Winter 2013, p. 29-234.
  
 Concerning the details of the history of the "Hennig-Kaps" Card in Box trick (which features a signed selection), the following was posted in mid-December, 2002, on the Genii Forum web site: "My name is Martin J. C. Klein-Hennig and I am a conjuror from Oldenburg, Germany. As Bruno Hennig's grandson I'm also responsible for the administration of his [[http://www.weser-ems-markt.de/joro/english.html|internet site]] and his mail account. On December 2nd, we received a mail from Craig Matsouka, who told us about a discussion about the origin of the "Card in Box" method. I translated this mail for Bruno and here is his "authorized" answer: Concerning the details of the history of the "Hennig-Kaps" Card in Box trick (which features a signed selection), the following was posted in mid-December, 2002, on the Genii Forum web site: "My name is Martin J. C. Klein-Hennig and I am a conjuror from Oldenburg, Germany. As Bruno Hennig's grandson I'm also responsible for the administration of his [[http://www.weser-ems-markt.de/joro/english.html|internet site]] and his mail account. On December 2nd, we received a mail from Craig Matsouka, who told us about a discussion about the origin of the "Card in Box" method. I translated this mail for Bruno and here is his "authorized" answer:
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 "During a later meeting Fred Kaps told me, that Scotty York gave him the tip to attach the card to a thread, so that it can be moved." "During a later meeting Fred Kaps told me, that Scotty York gave him the tip to attach the card to a thread, so that it can be moved."
  
-  * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/show.php?cat=1527|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]]+===== Precursor ===== 
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 +A similar method to Hennig's was devised by Paul N. Rylander to switch a prediction rather than a playing card. It appeared in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38249/The+Sphinx/9|The Sphinx]]// Vol. 49 No. 6, Aug. 1950, p. 125. Rylander placed a folded piece of paper into an opaque cup. For the climax of the effect, the right hand held the correct prediction in finger palm, ready to be switched in. The left hand picked up the cup and apparently dumped its prediction into the right hand. In reality, the cup wasn't tilted enough for the paper to actually fall out, allowing the right hand to push its paper into view as though it came from the cup. This is the same concept as Hennig's card switch, albeit with a shallow tilt instead of glue. 
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 +  * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/category/1527|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]]
  
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