Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

User Tools

Site Tools


Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Both sides previous revisionPrevious revision
Next revisionBoth sides next revision
coin:one-handed_palm_change [2014/05/24 21:22] stephenminchcoin:one-handed_palm_change [2016/11/06 07:56] – Added earlier dice source. tylerwilson
Line 1: Line 1:
 ====== One-handed Palm Change ====== ====== One-handed Palm Change ======
  
-The palm-to-palm coin exchange is Earl "Presto" Johnson's. See //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37394/Genii/73|Genii]]//, Vol. 73 No. 12, Dec. 2010, p. 73.+The palm-to-palm exchange with coins is Earl "Presto" Johnson's. See //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37394/Genii/73|Genii]]//, Vol. 73 No. 12, Dec. 2010, p. 73
 + 
 +The move dates back much farther with dice. In a book warning readers about the dice cheat, Gilbert Walker mentions the one-handed palm change being in use at the time. See Walker's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12478/A+manifest+detection+of+the+most+vyle+and+detestable+uses+of+dice+play/43-44|A Manifest Detection of the Most Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play]]//, 1552, p. 24 of the 1850 edition.
  
 {{tag>technique}} {{tag>technique}}