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 Although being around for centuries, descriptions of the technique managed to stay out of conjuring texts for a remarkably long time. It wasn't until the eighteenth century that the move blossomed into print with detailed explanations. The strike second deal appeared in Gabriel Mailhol's //Le Philosophe Négre et Les Secrets Des Grecs//, 1764, p. 165, but stayed out of English texts for another eighty years until Johnathan Harrington Green's description in //An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling//, 1843, p. 31. The push-off second deal was described eighteen years later in Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12776/Essential+Robert+Houdin/243|Les Tricheries des Grecs Devoilees]]//, 1861, p. 169 of the Hoffmann translation. Although being around for centuries, descriptions of the technique managed to stay out of conjuring texts for a remarkably long time. It wasn't until the eighteenth century that the move blossomed into print with detailed explanations. The strike second deal appeared in Gabriel Mailhol's //Le Philosophe Négre et Les Secrets Des Grecs//, 1764, p. 165, but stayed out of English texts for another eighty years until Johnathan Harrington Green's description in //An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling//, 1843, p. 31. The push-off second deal was described eighteen years later in Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12776/Essential+Robert+Houdin/243|Les Tricheries des Grecs Devoilees]]//, 1861, p. 169 of the Hoffmann translation.
  
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