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cards:envelope_or_pocket_card [2014/06/06 01:10] stephenminchcards:envelope_or_pocket_card [2017/06/28 16:57] – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 ====== Envelope or Pocket Card ====== ====== Envelope or Pocket Card ======
  
-While U. F. Grant used two cards glued on three sides, forming an open envelope, to vanish or add a coin during Coin Assembly (a marketed trick, I believe), and John Kennedy much later reinvented this idea in his marketed "Impossible Matrix"1978, Daniel Rhod mentions in //Notes on the History of Cardsharping in France //, 2011, p. 23, a description of "La Pochette" in an anonymous book, //Les misters du phraraon dévoilés...//, 1810. The pocket card was used to add double Louis d'or secretly to bet after it had proven successful.+The pocket card---used to add a double Louis d'or secretly to bet after it had proven successful---appeared in an anonymous book//Les misters du phraraon dévoilés...//1810. 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 coin has been rediscovered several times in conjuring. John Kennedy's marketed “Impossible Matrix”, 1978, is 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.
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 +Ellis Stanyon described a pocket card to secretly hold more cards in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16765/Stanyon+s+Magic+Vol+14+No+02/5|Magic]]//, Vol. 14 No. 2, Nov. 1913, p. 17.
  
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