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This trick, using a length of elastic strung between to cards to make another rise or jump from the deck, appears on a cigarette card distributed by W. Duke, Sons & Co., N.Y., c. 1887. (This card is reproduced in the July 2001 issue of MAGIC, Vol. 10, No. 11, p. 56.) Its having reached public domain by that time suggests it is much older.