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The Origins of Wonder

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 Dave Campbell came up with a two-deck method around 1971 that got away from roughing. He called it "Fred," again acknowledging  Lowe's contribution, and contributed it to //The Thistle//, Vol. 21 No. 2, Dec. 1976, p. 11, put out by the Scottish Conjuror's Association. It was republished in //Profile//, No. 14, June 1993, p. 4. Dave Campbell came up with a two-deck method around 1971 that got away from roughing. He called it "Fred," again acknowledging  Lowe's contribution, and contributed it to //The Thistle//, Vol. 21 No. 2, Dec. 1976, p. 11, put out by the Scottish Conjuror's Association. It was republished in //Profile//, No. 14, June 1993, p. 4.
  
-In the March 25, 1978, issue of //[[https://askalexander.org/display/20368/Abracadabra+Vol.+65/391|Abracadabra]]// (Vol. 65 No. 1678, pp. 424-5), England's Joe Riding ran a two-page ad for a trick called "The Golden Key", which was a redressing of the Fred Trick, with a different method using only one deck. Riding explains in his ad that his starting point was "Fido", a Ken Brooke reworking Lowe's "Christened Reverse", marketed c. 1976. Shortly before releasing "The Golden Key", with a deck that produced a golden key printed on the named card, Riding marketed his method dressed in the Marcus effect, calling it "Named". As in previous versions, "Named" used the name "Fred" on the named selection.+In the March 25, 1978, issue of //[[https://askalexander.org/display/20368/Abracadabra+Vol.+65/391|Abracadabra]]// (Vol. 65 No. 1678, pp. 424-5), England's Joe Riding ran a two-page ad for a trick called "The Golden Key", which was a redressing of the Fred Trick, with a significantly different method using only one deck. Riding explained in his ad that his starting point was "Fido", a variant of Lowe's "Christened Reverse" by Don Alan, marketed by Ken Brooke in [[https://askalexander.org/display/20366/Abracadabra+Vol+60/343|Oct. 1975]]. Shortly before releasing "The Golden Key", with a deck that produced a golden key printed on the named card, Riding marketed his method dressed in the Marcus effect, calling it "Named". As in previous versions, "Named" used the name "Fred" on the named selection.
  
 The gag of obtusely "naming" a card came from a quip made by Alexander Woollcott, cited by Milbourne Christopher in the //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37724/Linking+Ring/24|The Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 22 No. 2, Apr. 1942, p. 24. The gag of obtusely "naming" a card came from a quip made by Alexander Woollcott, cited by Milbourne Christopher in the //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37724/Linking+Ring/24|The Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 22 No. 2, Apr. 1942, p. 24.

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