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-The first clear description of this sleight is by Laurie Ireland in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18737/Ireland+s+New+Card+and+Coin+Manipulation/10|Ireland's New Card and Coin Manipulation 1935]]//, p. 9, where it is used in the context of a false count for "Six-card Repeat". This count employs the mechanics of the push-off double lift, published by Marlo in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10999/Off+The+Top/10|Off the Top]]//, 1945, p. 7, in the context of both a one-handed turnover, and two-handed variant; Vernon attempted to claim the same move over twenty years later in //Dai Vernon's Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic//, 1967, p. 54. The procedure is essentially the same, it being applied to two cards by Marlo and Vernon, while Ireland pushed over a larger block. The sleight credit should go to Ireland here. It is this procedure that Ireland focuses on, and he makes no claim of originality for the pull-down.+This concept appears to have been reinvented many times over the years. In an exposé of cheating techniques (in other words, he makes no claim of originality), Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin describes the idea of opening the pack with only the little finger. This is described in a peeking technique within //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12776/Essential+Robert+Houdin/247|Les Trickeries des Grecs Dévoilées]]// (1861).
  
-There is evidence to suggest that this idea long predated Ireland's description of it:+Laurie Ireland later redeveloped the idea in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18737/Ireland+s+New+Card+and+Coin+Manipulation/10|Ireland's New Card and Coin Manipulation 1935]]//, p. 9, where it is used in the context of a false count for "Six-card Repeat". This count employs the mechanics of the push-off double lift, published by Marlo in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10999/Off+The+Top/10|Off the Top]]//, 1945, p. 7, in the context of both a one-handed turnover, and two-handed variant; Vernon attempted to claim the same move over twenty years later in //Dai Vernon's Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic//, 1967, p. 54. The procedure is essentially the same, it being applied to two cards by Marlo and Vernon, while Ireland pushed over a larger block. The sleight credit should go to Ireland here. It is this procedure that Ireland focuses on, and he makes no claim of originality for the pull-down. 
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 +There is evidence to suggest that others had worked on the idea between Robert-Houdin and Ireland, and possibly before:
   - John Booth was using a pull-down in his Six-card Repeat handling in vaudeville in the 1920s. He wrote a letter saying as much. He does not try to claim credit for the idea. It was just something he was doing at the time.   - John Booth was using a pull-down in his Six-card Repeat handling in vaudeville in the 1920s. He wrote a letter saying as much. He does not try to claim credit for the idea. It was just something he was doing at the time.
   - Vernon spoke about discovering the pull-down in the teens or twenties while trying to decipher a cryptic passage in the early translations of Hofzinser in //The Sphinx//. The passage referred to making a crepitating noise by ruffling the cards with the little finger.   - Vernon spoke about discovering the pull-down in the teens or twenties while trying to decipher a cryptic passage in the early translations of Hofzinser in //The Sphinx//. The passage referred to making a crepitating noise by ruffling the cards with the little finger.

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