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- | The first description occurs in Wm. Henry Cremer's //The Secret Out: One Thousand Tricks in Drawing Room or White Magic...// (1859). See "To let a person draw a card which he cannot name", which is a gag. However, Hofzinser was known to use this gaffed card in the mid-1800s. | + | The first description occurs in R.P's //Ein Spiel Karten// (1853, translated by Dr. Lori Pieper in 2005), in a trick with the translated title of “The Nameless Card.” It is a gag, rather than a magic trick. However, Hofzinser was known to use this gaffed card for magical uses in the mid-1800s. |
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