Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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cards:envelope_or_pocket_card [2020/10/11 20:44] – date corrected denisbehrcards:envelope_or_pocket_card [2020/10/12 01:28] (current) – Corrected typo in "misteres". stephenminch
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-The pocket card---used to add a double Louis d'or secretly to a bet after it had proven successful---appeared in an anonymous book, //Les mystères du pharaon dévoilés//, 1802. Daniel Rhod mentions this in //Notes on the History of Cardsharping in France//, 2011, p. 23. The idea of using such a card to load or vanish a coin has been rediscovered several times in conjuring. John Kennedy's marketed “Impossible Matrix”, 1978, is a notable example.+The pocket card---used to add a double Louis d'or secretly to a bet after it had proven successful---appeared in an anonymous book, //Les misteres du pharaon dévoilés//, c. 1802. Daniel Rhod mentions this in //Notes on the History of Cardsharping in France//, 2011, p. 23. The idea of using such a card to load or vanish a coin has been rediscovered several times in conjuring. John Kennedy's marketed “Impossible Matrix”, 1978, is a notable example.
  
 J. N. Hofzinser used a pocket card for a different purpose: to receive a borrowed finger ring, after which the open end of the card was sealed with diachylon, and later the ring was produced from inside the card. See "The Insoluble Impromptu" in //J. N. Hofzinser: Non Plus Ultra, Vol. II//, by Magic Christian, 2013, p. 290. J. N. Hofzinser used a pocket card for a different purpose: to receive a borrowed finger ring, after which the open end of the card was sealed with diachylon, and later the ring was produced from inside the card. See "The Insoluble Impromptu" in //J. N. Hofzinser: Non Plus Ultra, Vol. II//, by Magic Christian, 2013, p. 290.