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 ====== Throw Change / Toss Change ======
-Stanley Witcher published this technique as "A Novel Card Sleight" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38769/The+Magazine+of+Magic/117|The Magazine of Magic]]//, Vol. 1 No. 3, Jan. 1915, p. 117. The now common handling was described by Arthur Buckley in //Improved and Original Card Problems Vol. 2//, 1924, p. 23 of the combined booklet. In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14362/Card+Control+A+Post+Graduate+Course+on+Practical+Methods/78|Card Control]]//, 1946, p. 76, Buckley claims he had been using the toss change since 1910, and does "not know of its publication elsewhere," which suggests he believes he may have been the first to conceive this sleight.
+Stanley Witcher published this technique as "A Novel Card Sleight" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38769/The+Magazine+of+Magic/117|The Magazine of Magic]]//, Vol. 1 No. 3, Jan. 1915, p. 117.
-In 1928, Jack Merlin described the technique in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14715/Merlin+s+Master+Miracles+Section+Three+of+And+a+Packet+of+Cards/13|Merlin's Master Miracles]]//, 1928, p. 78 of the combined booklet. Merlin's routine contains most of the handling and psychological touches that later appeared in the handling attributed to Derek Dingle under the title, "The Alpha Toss," in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38903/RICHARD+S+ALMANAC+VOL+1/5|Richard's Almanac]]//, Vol. 1 No. 1, Sep. 1982, p. 1.
+In a trick named "Card Changes under Foot", contributed by DeLawrence to Thayer's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38023/Magical+Bulletin/9|Magical Bulletin]]//, Vol. 8 No. 6, Jun. 1920, p. 89, another bare-bones description of the Throw Change is given.
+The now common handling was described by Arthur Buckley in //Improved and Original Card Problems Vol. 2//, 1924, p. 23 of the combined booklet. In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14362/Card+Control+A+Post+Graduate+Course+on+Practical+Methods/78|Card Control]]//, 1946, p. 76, Buckley claimed he had been using the toss change since 1910, and did "not know of its publication elsewhere," which suggests he believed he may have been the first to conceive this sleight. It can be interpreted as an extension of T. Nelson Downs's Downs Change, published one year before Buckley's claim of the invention of the Throw Change; see //[[https://askalexander.org/display/40408/The+art+of+magic/75|The Art of Magic]]// by Downs (ghostwritten by J. N. Hilliard), 1909, p. 61; second edition, p. 73.
+In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14715/Merlin+s+Master+Miracles+Section+Three+of+And+a+Packet+of+Cards/13|Merlin's Master Miracles]]// (1928, p. 78 of the combined booklet), Jack Merlin described the same trick published twenty years earlier by DeLawrence. However, Merlin's explanation provides advanced handling and psychological touches for the sleight, most of which later appeared in the handling attributed to Derek Dingle under the title, "The Alpha Toss," in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38903/RICHARD+S+ALMANAC+VOL+1/5|Richard's Almanac]]//, Vol. 1 No. 1, Sep. 1982, p. 1.
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