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JSBLOOM Inner circle 2024 Posts |
Does anyone know who invented this switch or was it Jay?
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DStachowiak Inner circle Baltimore, MD 2158 Posts |
If you are talking about having the clip change from one card to another, as in a Three card Monte routine,Frank Garcia used to do it with a paperclip or a matchbook. John Scarne used to do it with a postage stamp.
There's also a version using a paperclip to mark a card in an Ambitious Card routine that was published in one of the Japanese books Kaufman put out, either "New Magic of Japan" or "Five X Five Japan" ( I don't have them in front of me to look it up at the moment) Don
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I'm not history 'o magic expert, but I think Sankey invented his particular paper clip move. There have been multiple tricks where cards have been clipped and the clipped card switches or changes, but Sankey's version with a folded card always being in the audience's view, is I believe, new. His move to remove the clip and the subsequent "business" that follows is smooth, relatively sleight-less, and visually seamless.
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Bob Sanders Grammar Supervisor Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts |
I would ask Hank Moorehouse.
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DStachowiak Inner circle Baltimore, MD 2158 Posts |
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On 2009-05-06 11:16, Wizard of Oz wrote: Ah, ok, this sounds like an entirely different thing, so, to quote Emily Lytella, "Never mind" Don
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SplitSpades11 New user 44 Posts |
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On 2009-05-06 06:23, JSBLOOM wrote: Yes!There are slight variations but that particular switch (move for move)is called the Full View switch and I believe was first published in 100% Sankey!
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mumford Special user 652 Posts |
I think the orgin of tis move can be found in Cy Enfield's Card Magic.
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Mark Elsdon Loyal user 249 Posts |
Alexander de Cova's Clothes Peg switch was created in 1983. The handling is identical to that which Sankey published in '100% Sankey', except that Sankey substitutes a paperclip for the clothes peg.
As well as being published in both German and English in the mid-80s, the move is also on Vol. 3 of de Cova's 'Treasures' DVDs, which Murphy's Magic released a few years ago. The routine the switch is used in, 'Ordered Surprise', is (as well as being typical de Cova brilliance) just one of his many uses for the switch. Cheers, ME
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It might be good to compare Cy Endfield's move to Alexander de Cova's. Endfield would predate de Cova by quite a while.
This does not necessarily mean that Sankey copied either one of them or that de Cova copied Endfield. Either of them could have come up with it on his own.
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mumford Special user 652 Posts |
If memory serves, the Enfield book is from the 1960's.
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Rennie Inner circle I think I have about 1826 Posts |
I have a packet effect by Tony Chaudhari (spelling?) called "The Sting" which uses the clip switch. I think I got it around the mid 70's
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