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--- cards:long-card_locator [2013/03/29 11:18] – denisbehr
+++ cards:long-card_locator [2013/04/15 02:52] – tylerwilson
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 ====== Long-card Locator ======
-In 1976, in //Bill Severn's Magic Workshop//, Chapter 1, titled, "Cards and Tapes", the first trick, "The Long One" explains how a long card can be made by applying Scotch Magic Tape to the ends of a card. This predates Gary Ouellet's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18079/ProControl|Procontrol]]// booklet from 1986, which presents basically the same idea.
+Larger cards were the locators of choice for early conjurors. Their use appeared wherever you found descriptions of card magic; see Charles Cotton's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18434/The+Compleat+Gamester/132|The Compleat Gamester]]// (1674). Oddly, short cards were a much later development; see Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12776/Essential+Robert+Houdin/258|Les Trickeries des Grecs Dévoilées]]// (1861).
+Within contemporary magic, in 1976 //Bill Severn's Magic Workshop//, Chapter 1, titled, "Cards and Tapes", the first trick, "The Long One" explains how a long card can be made by applying Scotch Magic Tape to the ends of a card. This predates Gary Ouellet's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18079/ProControl|Procontrol]]// booklet from 1986, which presents basically the same idea.
   * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/show.php?cat=1692|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]]
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