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cards:double_lift_from_center [2017/09/18 10:59] – Almost nothing. tylerwilsoncards:double_lift_from_center [2019/04/19 06:48] – typo denisbehr
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 ======Double Lift from Center====== ======Double Lift from Center======
  
-The first Double Lift from the center of the deck to appear in print was by Cy Endfield, recorded by Lewis Ganson in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14496/Cy+Endfield+s+Entertaining+Card+Magic/12|Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic, Part 1]]//, 1955, p. 12The double card is extracted with two cards inserted into the center of the deck.+A crude description of the removal of a double card from the center of the deck can be found in Downs and Hilliard'//[[https://askalexander.org/display/40408/The+art+of+magic/58|The Art of Magic]]//, 1909, p. 58It is described in the context of a routine for Hofzinser's "Everywhere and Nowhere", but the originator of this particular handling is not given.
  
-Jack Avis, published a more "hands-on" approach in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/5319/Pentagram+Vol+12/75|Pentagram]]//, Vol. 12 No. 10, July 1958, p. 75Larry Jennings contributed a similar sleight, displaying a mildly flourishy fingertip handling, to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/3001/Gen+Vol+20/130|The Gen]]//, Vol. 20 No. 5, Sep. 1964, p. 130.+Bob Weill described a Double Lift from the center of the inner end of the deck in his column "Bob's This 'N That" in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/37577/Linking+Ring/36|The Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 14 No. 2, Apr. 1934, p. 114. 
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 +An unusual Double Lift from the center of the deck by Cy Endfield was recorded by Lewis Ganson in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14496/Cy+Endfield+s+Entertaining+Card+Magic/12|Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic, Part 1]]//, 1955, p. 12. The double card is extracted with two cards inserted into the center of the deck. 
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 +Later handlings include Jack Avis, who published his approach in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/5319/Pentagram+Vol+12/75|Pentagram]]//, Vol. 12 No. 10, July 1958, p. 75, and Larry Jennings contributed a similar sleight, displaying a mildly flourishy fingertip handling, to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/3001/Gen+Vol+20/130|The Gen]]//, Vol. 20 No. 5, Sep. 1964, p. 130. 
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 +  * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/category/784 |Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]]
  
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