Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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cards:step_peek [2013/04/15 05:42] tylerwilsoncards:step_peek [2013/04/15 08:04] tylerwilson
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 Perhaps the earliest description of collapsing a break into step (which was described as early as the //Asti Manuscript//, c. 1700) to glimpse a riffle-peeked selection appears in Buckley's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14362/Card+Control+A+Post+Graduate+Course+on+Practical+Methods/36|Card Control]]// (1946), p. 34. Buckley ascribes no source for it, and Malini's use of it (according to Vernon) suggests it was old by this time. Perhaps the earliest description of collapsing a break into step (which was described as early as the //Asti Manuscript//, c. 1700) to glimpse a riffle-peeked selection appears in Buckley's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14362/Card+Control+A+Post+Graduate+Course+on+Practical+Methods/36|Card Control]]// (1946), p. 34. Buckley ascribes no source for it, and Malini's use of it (according to Vernon) suggests it was old by this time.
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 +Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin described a related, ancestral peek with the translated title of "The Card Seen by a Glance" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12776/Essential+Robert+Houdin/247|Les Trickeries des Grecs Dévoilées]]// (1861).
  
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