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--- cards:will_de_seive_embossed_locator_card [2013/03/29 12:31] – tag added denisbehr
+++ cards:will_de_seive_embossed_locator_card [2023/01/19 00:11] – Added Cavaille page number and text. stephenminch
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 ====== Will de Seive Embossed Locator Card ======
-This was published two years before //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13140/Greater+Magic/534|Greater Magic]]//, 1938, p. 478, in de Seive's //These Card Tricks//, 1936, p. 8, under the title "Contact Card". Daniel Rhod reports in //Notes on the History of Cardsharping in France// (2011, p. 24) that using a coin to mark a card with an embossing, used as a cheating method, was described by A. Cavaille in his card sharping treatise//, La filouteries du jeu//, 1875. Rhod doesn't make clear how the card was used: as a tactile mark or as a means to force or control a cut. Must clarify this point.
+This appeared in Will de Seive's //These Card Tricks//, 1936, p. 8, under the title "Contact Card," before being published in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13140/Greater+Magic/534|Greater Magic]]//, 1938, p. 478.
+Daniel Rhod reports the use of a coin to mark a card with an embossing as a cheating method in the 1800s. It was described by Augustin Cavaillé in his card sharping treatise, //[[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1875-Cavaille-Les-Filouteries-du-jeu.pdf|Les filouteries du jeu]]//, 1875, p. 78. The description is quite brief: //"La marque à la pièce: Le grec opère une pression sur la carte au moyen d’une pièce d’or ou d’argent à bords dentelés."// (The coin mark: The Greek presses the card with a gold or silver coin with serrated edges.) It isn't clear how the card was used: as a tactile mark or as a means to force or control a cut.
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