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--- cards:paintbrush_color_change [2015/07/29 23:56] – Added Frank Holmes's handling and claim to the move. tylerwilson
+++ cards:paintbrush_color_change [2018/06/17 19:41] – Added a couple of references. tylerwilson
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 After that, many people muddied the waters by claiming the move as their own.
-The very next month after releasing "Cloye's Colour Change" on the market, Stanyon taught the change in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13139/Stanyon+s+Serial+Lessons+in+Conjuring+In+21+Parts+1899+1910/428|Stanyon's Serial Lessons in Conjuring]]//, No. 20, July 1910, p. 5. But in true Ellis Stanyon fashion, he not only didn't credit Cloyes, but he explicitly claimed credit for himself as the sleight's originator. What's even more damning to Stanyon's claim is that he called it "A New Colour Change" in the lesson itself, but accidentally still called it "Cloye's Colour Change" in the advertising for the lesson (see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16725/Stanyon+s+Magic+Vol+10+No+10/8|Magic]]//, Vol. 10 No. 10, July 1910, p. 80).
+The very next month after releasing "Cloye's Colour Change" on the market, Stanyon taught the change in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13139/Stanyon+s+Serial+Lessons+in+Conjuring+In+21+Parts+1899+1910/428|Stanyon's Serial Lessons in Conjuring]]//, No. 20, July 1910, p. 5. But in true Ellis Stanyon fashion, he not only didn't credit Cloyes. Instead, he explicitly claimed credit for himself as the sleight's originator. What's even more damning to Stanyon's claim is that he called it "A New Colour Change" in the lesson itself, but accidentally still called it "Cloye's Colour Change" in the advertising for the lesson (see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16725/Stanyon+s+Magic+Vol+10+No+10/8|Magic]]//, Vol. 10 No. 10, July 1910, p. 80).
-Stanley Collins later contributed an ungimmicked version to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10745/The+magician+monthly/103|Magician Monthly]]//, Vol. 8 No. 6, May 1912, p. 90. There it is titled "Original Colour Change." He later submitted a clearer explanation of it to //Pentagram//, Vol. 1 No. 10, July 1947, p. 70, calling it the "Paint Brush Colour Change." In his handling, the rear card of the pack is stolen behind a Joker that lies on the front of the deck, to create a double card, which is then passed over the face of the pack and the rear card is left behind to effect the change. The now-modern version of the change, which is brought about by simply picking up two cards as one from their rear before brushing them across the top of the deck, was published by Frank Holmes---who also claimed originality for it---as "The Brush Colour-Change" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15520/Magical+World+New+Series+Vol+01+No+05/11|The Magical World (New Series)]]//, No. 5, July 2 1913, p. 75. Two versions of this color-change principle are given in Glenn Gravatt's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/17459/Encyclopedia+of+Self+Working+Card+Tricks/399|Encyclopedia of Self Working Card Tricks]]//, 1936, p. 393. Gravatt gives no attribution, but Jean Hugard, in his revision of Gravatt's book, repeats the second version and credits it to Jack Merlin (p. 341). These handlings involve a triple card, with cards preset face down and face up, which are drawn from the bottom of the deck as a single card and are brushed over the face-up top card to effect the transformation.
+Stanley Collins later contributed an ungimmicked version to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10745/The+magician+monthly/103|Magician Monthly]]//, Vol. 8 No. 6, May 1912, p. 90. There it is titled "Original Colour Change". He later submitted a clearer explanation of it to //Pentagram//, Vol. 1 No. 10, July 1947, p. 70, calling it the "Paint Brush Colour Change". In his handling, the rear card of the pack is stolen behind a Joker that lies on the front of the deck, to create a double card, which is then passed over the face of the pack and the rear card is left behind to effect the change.
-Dai Vernon, in his "Ambitious Card" routine from //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18141/Stars+of+Magic/79|Stars of Magic]]//, Series 5 No. 2, 1949, p. 77 of the 1960 compilation book, uses what is essentially a reverse paintbrush change. The effect is the same, but it is accomplished by pushing a single card forward, and pulling a double card back. And to add yet one more name to the list of people claiming ownership, Jeff Busby credits the move to Neal Elias in //Arcane//, No. 14, 1995, p. 203. Busby gives no citation for this attribution, but it's clear that it couldn't have been before Cloyes due to the timeframe involved.
+The version of the change that has long been the common handling, in which two cards are gripped as one at their inner ends before brushing them across the top of the deck, was published by Frank Holmes as "The Brush Colour-Change" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15520/Magical+World+New+Series+Vol+01+No+05/11|The Magical World (New Series)]]//, No. 5, July 2 1913, p. 75. Holmes claimed it was "only...slightly different from others."
+Two versions of this color-change principle are given in Glenn Gravatt's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/17459/Encyclopedia+of+Self+Working+Card+Tricks/399|Encyclopedia of Self Working Card Tricks]]//, 1936, p. 393. Gravatt gives no attribution, but Jean Hugard, in his revision of Gravatt's book, repeats the second version and credits it to Jack Merlin (p. 341). These handlings involve a triple card, with cards preset face down and face up, which are drawn from the bottom of the deck as a single card and are brushed over the face-up top card to effect the transformation.
+An inverse technique, where instead of passing a double card over the deck and coming away with a single card, the performer passes a single card over the deck and comes away with a double card, was mentioned by Walter Gibson in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38626/The+Sphinx/16|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 17 No. 11, Jan. 1919, p. 216. Gibson claims that this method of stealing a card to effect the change is inferior to that of depositing a card to accomplish the same result. Dai Vernon used this inverse technique in his "Ambitious Card" routine from //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18141/Stars+of+Magic/79|Stars of Magic]]//, Series 5 No. 2, 1949, p. 77 of the 1960 compilation book.
+To add yet one more name to the list of people claiming ownership, Jeff Busby credits the move to Neal Elias in //Arcane//, No. 14, 1995, p. 203. Busby gives no citation for this attribution, but it's clear that it couldn't have been before Cloyes due to the timeframe involved.
+A related change was developed around the same time as Cloye's change. It, too, used a paintbrush action on the face of the deck, but the method to secretly accomplish the change was entirely different. It was published by M.F. Crowe as "The Artist Card" in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38179/The+Sphinx/15|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 9 No. 5, Oct. 1910, p. 175.
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