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-This one-handed [[top_change|top change]] first hit the page in Jean-Nicholas Ponsin's //Nouvelle Magie Blanche Dévoilée//, 1853, p. 38, and later with illustrations in Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/29472/The+Secrets+of+Conjuring+and+Magic/206|Les Secrets de la Prestidigitation et de la Magie]]//, 1868, p. 186 of the Hoffmann translation. Ponsin described the move as a secret switch, whereas Robert-Houdin had an entirely different opinion; he thought the move was impossible to do without detection, and instead described it as an open flourish.+This one-handed [[top_change|top change]] first hit the page in Jean-Nicholas Ponsin's //Nouvelle Magie Blanche Dévoilée//, 1853, p. 38 (Hugard translation: //[[https://askalexander.org/display/83022/Gibeci+re/120|Gibecière]]//, Vol. 15 No. 1, Winter 2020, p. 118), and later with illustrations in Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/29472/The+Secrets+of+Conjuring+and+Magic/206|Les Secrets de la Prestidigitation et de la Magie]]//, 1868, p. 186 of the Hoffmann translation. Ponsin described the move as a secret switch, whereas Robert-Houdin had an entirely different opinion; he thought the move was impossible to do without detection, and instead described it as an open flourish.
  
 In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16778/Stanyon+s+Magic+Vol+15+No+03/6|Magic]]//, Vol. 15 No. 3, Dec. 1919, p. 22, the change was described as the hand is tilted back. It was taught in a section dealing with secret switches, with no mention of this switch being any less covert. This section was a serial column called "The Dictionary of Magical Effects", which dealt mainly with common tricks and methods of the period. Very few credits were given. The appearance of the one-handed change in this column suggests that the practice of the sleight as a secret move was known by this time. In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16778/Stanyon+s+Magic+Vol+15+No+03/6|Magic]]//, Vol. 15 No. 3, Dec. 1919, p. 22, the change was described as the hand is tilted back. It was taught in a section dealing with secret switches, with no mention of this switch being any less covert. This section was a serial column called "The Dictionary of Magical Effects", which dealt mainly with common tricks and methods of the period. Very few credits were given. The appearance of the one-handed change in this column suggests that the practice of the sleight as a secret move was known by this time.
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 According to Lennart Green on //Green Magic Vol. 5//, 2003, around 1968-9, Max Milton, of Sweden, also developed the secret one-handed top change from a description of the early flourish. He used a straddle grip and very constrained display action to cover the sleight: only a wrist turn; not a broad raising of the hand and arm. Later, Harry Lorayne published the sleight as The Ultra Move, in his //[[http://askalexander.org/display/17893/Afterthoughts/15|Afterthoughts]]//, 1975, p. 11. Lorayne acknowledged the "basic idea" had been discovered by Buckley and Downs. He teaches the sleight with a straddle grip, but mentions it can be done from normal mechanics grip. He emphasizes that the broad upward motion of the hand and deck are required for deceptiveness. However, though it is more demanding, Max Milton and others do it quite deceptively with just a modest wrist-turn. According to Lennart Green on //Green Magic Vol. 5//, 2003, around 1968-9, Max Milton, of Sweden, also developed the secret one-handed top change from a description of the early flourish. He used a straddle grip and very constrained display action to cover the sleight: only a wrist turn; not a broad raising of the hand and arm. Later, Harry Lorayne published the sleight as The Ultra Move, in his //[[http://askalexander.org/display/17893/Afterthoughts/15|Afterthoughts]]//, 1975, p. 11. Lorayne acknowledged the "basic idea" had been discovered by Buckley and Downs. He teaches the sleight with a straddle grip, but mentions it can be done from normal mechanics grip. He emphasizes that the broad upward motion of the hand and deck are required for deceptiveness. However, though it is more demanding, Max Milton and others do it quite deceptively with just a modest wrist-turn.
  
-  * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/show.php?cat=1607|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]]+  * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/category/1607|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]]
  
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