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The basis for the card force in which a spectator inserts a card or knife into the end of the deck to choose a card comes from a card-cheating ruse recorded c. 1670-1730, in an anonymously written Italian manuscript called "MSS III, 18" or "the Asti manuscript"; | The basis for the card force in which a spectator inserts a card or knife into the end of the deck to choose a card comes from a card-cheating ruse recorded c. 1670-1730, in an anonymously written Italian manuscript called "MSS III, 18" or "the Asti manuscript"; | ||
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The variation using a knife may have been inspired by an earlier force by Edwin T. Sachs in //Sleight of Hand//, 1877, p. 126 [2nd edition], p. 118 [3rd edition], that employed a knife inserted into the end of the deck, but slipped the force card from the bottom of the deck. | The variation using a knife may have been inspired by an earlier force by Edwin T. Sachs in //Sleight of Hand//, 1877, p. 126 [2nd edition], p. 118 [3rd edition], that employed a knife inserted into the end of the deck, but slipped the force card from the bottom of the deck. | ||
A very early form of the force is poorly described in an anonymous notebook written circa 1800, transcribed and published by Will Houstoun as //The Notebook//, 2009, p. 21. In Item 17, the force card is injogged for more than half its length and bowed downward against the performer' | A very early form of the force is poorly described in an anonymous notebook written circa 1800, transcribed and published by Will Houstoun as //The Notebook//, 2009, p. 21. In Item 17, the force card is injogged for more than half its length and bowed downward against the performer' | ||
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- | The same outward procedure of knife-based card selection was also used to glimpse a fair selection. Alon Lord suggested using the reflection of the knife to gain knowledge of the lower card of the upper packet --- the card given to the spectator as his selection. Lord published this technique in // | ||
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