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cards:pick-up_shuffle [2016/10/10 09:54] – Added The Modern Conjuror reference that, I believe, is the first proper overhand lift shuffle in print. As soon as I have a minute I'll do a closer comparison of the Hunter Shuffle too. andigladwincards:pick-up_shuffle [2017/06/28 16:57] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 The pick-up dynamic of this shuffle is used in the first full-deck false shuffle method S. W. Erdnase described in the Legerdemain section of //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10870/Artifice+ruse+and+subterfuge+at+the+card+table/162|Expert at the Card Table]]//, 1902, p. 163. This shuffle was of the haymow variety, rather than an overhand shuffle, designed to maintain the order of the entire deck and resulting in giving the cards only a simple cut. The pick-up dynamic of this shuffle is used in the first full-deck false shuffle method S. W. Erdnase described in the Legerdemain section of //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10870/Artifice+ruse+and+subterfuge+at+the+card+table/162|Expert at the Card Table]]//, 1902, p. 163. This shuffle was of the haymow variety, rather than an overhand shuffle, designed to maintain the order of the entire deck and resulting in giving the cards only a simple cut.
  
-The same year, Henri De Manche published an overhand false shuffle in Neil C. Lang's //The Modern Conjuror// (1902, p. 51that utilized the lift shuffle methodology. Lang taught three variants of the shuffle; a top stock shuffle, a top and bottom stock shuffle and finally a full deck false shuffle that bears a resemblance to the [[cards:g._w._hunter_false_overhand_shuffle|G. W. Hunter False Overhand Shuffle]].+The same year, Henri De Manche published an overhand false shuffle in C. Lang Neil's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/24790/The+Modern+Conjurer+and+Drawing+Room+Entertainer/53-55|The Modern Conjurer]]//, 1902, p. 51that utilized the lift shuffle methodology.
  
 Jack Merlin describes his Outjog Shuffle in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14666/Merlin+s+Master+Manipulations+Section+One+of+And+a+Pack+of+Cards/6|Merlin's Master Manipulations]]//, 1928, p. 5. This is a false shuffle designed to control a card to the top during a single overhand shuffle. It uses an outjog to delay the pick up action until later in the shuffle. While Merlin refers to the style of shuffling as a "haymow", evidence suggests that the shuffle he used is what is called today an overhand shuffle. (Conjuring literature of the period sometimes used "haymow" to refer to both the haymow and overhand shuffling methods.) This detail is clarified by Jean Hugard in his revision of Merlin's trilogy [[http://askalexander.org/display/14785/And+A+Pack+of+Cards+Cherished+Secrets+of+a+Master+Manipulator/10|...and a Pack of Cards]], 1940, p. 12. Jack Merlin describes his Outjog Shuffle in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14666/Merlin+s+Master+Manipulations+Section+One+of+And+a+Pack+of+Cards/6|Merlin's Master Manipulations]]//, 1928, p. 5. This is a false shuffle designed to control a card to the top during a single overhand shuffle. It uses an outjog to delay the pick up action until later in the shuffle. While Merlin refers to the style of shuffling as a "haymow", evidence suggests that the shuffle he used is what is called today an overhand shuffle. (Conjuring literature of the period sometimes used "haymow" to refer to both the haymow and overhand shuffling methods.) This detail is clarified by Jean Hugard in his revision of Merlin's trilogy [[http://askalexander.org/display/14785/And+A+Pack+of+Cards+Cherished+Secrets+of+a+Master+Manipulator/10|...and a Pack of Cards]], 1940, p. 12.