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-This fanning method can be exploited in various ways. It's earliest use was probably to create an illusion that the faces of the cards in the deck were blank. A blank-faced card was placed on the face of the deck before it was reverse fanned. See Charles CEastman's "Reverse Fan--All White" in his //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18519/Expert+Manipulative+Magic/10|Expert Manipulative Magic]]//, 1933, p. 9.+This fanning method can be exploited in various ways. It's earliest use was probably to create an illusion that the faces of the cards in the deck were blank. A blank-faced card was placed on the face of the deck before it was reverse fanned. See Frederick E. Poole Jr.'s "The Blank Card Mystery" in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38574/The+Sphinx/18|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 28 No. 7, Sep. 1929, p. 242.
  
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-In a face-down fan of a deck with a white-bordered back pattern, face-up cards remain hidden. In Ed Marlo's "Separating Aces (4th method)", //[[http://askalexander.org/display/9333/Ibidem+Volume+1/190|Ibidem]]//, No. 8, Dec. 1956, p. 141 of the combined edition, cards have to be inserted in a deck with secretly reversed and distributed Aces. It says to simply push them in, and in brackets this note is given: "Or insert into a reverse fan - Aces cannot show."+The precursor to this idea was to hide a face-up card in a traditional fan, and simply shielding the exposed index from view. Harry Hanaoka contributed this idea to //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38313/The+Sphinx/22|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 26 No. 10, Dec. 1927, p. 366. Oddly, Hanaoka suggests that only court cards are capable of being hidden in the spread due to their border, even though number cards share that same amount of white space around their edges. 
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 +Using a reverse fanhowever, naturally swaps the side of the cards being displayed. This causes the indices of any face-up cards to be hidden beneath the card above it — no additional shielding required. In Ed Marlo's "Separating Aces (4th method)", //[[http://askalexander.org/display/9333/Ibidem+Volume+1/190|Ibidem]]//, No. 8, Dec. 1956, p. 141 of the combined edition, cards have to be inserted in a deck with secretly reversed and distributed Aces. It says to simply push them in, and in brackets this note is given: "Or insert into a reverse fan - Aces cannot show."
  
 Marlo later expanded on this principle in Jon Racherbaumer's //Hierophant//, No. 4, summer 1970, p. 210, in his contribution "right-hand pressure fan notes", where he applies the idea to [[cards:all-backs|All Backs]] and [[cards:triumph|Triumph]] effects. Marlo later expanded on this principle in Jon Racherbaumer's //Hierophant//, No. 4, summer 1970, p. 210, in his contribution "right-hand pressure fan notes", where he applies the idea to [[cards:all-backs|All Backs]] and [[cards:triumph|Triumph]] effects.