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The two-card transposition plot appeared many times over the years in private, unpublished notebooks before it officially hit the printed page. The earliest description appears to be in //Sloane 424//, c. 1600s, p. 158 of the Pieper translation. Its trick title translates to “A method for acting when someone takes a card and keeps it under his finger, but in such a way that it will seem that another is being placed, you will make it so that it is the card drawn, and nevertheless, | The two-card transposition plot appeared many times over the years in private, unpublished notebooks before it officially hit the printed page. The earliest description appears to be in //Sloane 424//, c. 1600s, p. 158 of the Pieper translation. Its trick title translates to “A method for acting when someone takes a card and keeps it under his finger, but in such a way that it will seem that another is being placed, you will make it so that it is the card drawn, and nevertheless, | ||
- | The plot was properly published in Gilles-Edme Guyot' | + | The plot was properly published in Gilles-Edme Guyot' |
Hercat devised a parlor dressing for the transposition, | Hercat devised a parlor dressing for the transposition, |