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This switch of a folded playing card, bill or slip of paper, accomplished while apparently removing the item from a paper clip or similar device, has a history of reinvention. Karl Fulves authored the first published description of it in // | This switch of a folded playing card, bill or slip of paper, accomplished while apparently removing the item from a paper clip or similar device, has a history of reinvention. Karl Fulves authored the first published description of it in // | ||
- | Alexander de Cova developed the same switch, using a clothes pin instead of a paper clip, in the 1980s. He recounts his memory of its development in his book //Ein Profi packt aus...//, 1992. | + | Alexander de Cova developed the same switch, using a clothes pin instead of a paper clip, c. 1985. He recounts his memory of its development in his book //Ein Profi packt aus...//, 1992. |
Jay Sankey also reinvented the switch, which he included in //100% Sankey// by Richard Kaufman, 1990, p. 36, under the title of "# | Jay Sankey also reinvented the switch, which he included in //100% Sankey// by Richard Kaufman, 1990, p. 36, under the title of "# | ||
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