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====== Envelope or Pocket Card ====== | ====== Envelope or Pocket Card ====== | ||
- | 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 misters | + | 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 |
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" | 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" | ||
- | Ellis Stanyon described a pocket card to secretly hold more cards in // | + | Ellis Stanyon described a pocket card to secretly hold more cards in // |
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