One-Handed

98 entries in Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Right Hand / One-Handed
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Das Kartenstehlen - V. Methode "Die Kartenschule von Carl Willmann"
one-handed multiple top palm, crude positioning
 		Feb. 1897
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 3 No. 2)
20
Das Kartenstehlen - VIII. Methode "Die Kartenschule von Carl Willmann"
one-handed spring palm, with count, sometimes credited to L'Homme Masqué
 		May 1897
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 3 No. 5)
67
Karl Meyer Das Kartengreifen "Schule der Magie"
  • choreography of one-handed palm and fan production from elbow
  • steal of bottom packet into right-hand thumb clip, left first finger pushes packet out (throw cut)
 		Sep. 1904
Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 4 No. 9)
137
Jean Hugard One Hand Top Card Palm
Related toVariations 1933
Card Manipulations (Issue 1)
2
L'Homme Masqué One Hand Palm for a Number of Cards "originated by a French magician", spring palm
 		1936
Card Manipulations (Issue 5)
130
Judson Cole, Jean Hugard The Top Card, One Hand Only
1938
Greater Magic
200
Jean Hugard The One. Hand Top Palm footnote
 		1940
Expert Card Technique
177
Eddie Joseph Throw Change Variation to palm top and bottom card from small packet and produce them from pocket
 		1940 ca.
Original Tricks
12
Eddie Joseph Palming Cards at a Table one-handed as tabled deck is pushed forward
 		1942
Greater Card Tricks
11
Frederick Braue Cards to Pocket Palm
1943
Tricks and Sleights
31
Edward Marlo One Hand Palm for a Number of Cards
Inspired by 1945
Off the Top
4
Judson Cole One Hand Top Palm - Judson Cole
1946
Card Control
69
Al Valenti A Top Palm one handed top palm, with ring finger action
 		June 1946
The Phoenix (Issue 107)
432
Bruce Elliott One Hand Cop with whispering queens and reversing card to illustrate the move
 		Apr. 1947
The Phoenix (Issue 123)
493
Dr. Jacob Daley One-Hand Spring Palm multiple palm from small packet
Related toAlso published here 1950
Stars of Magic (Vol. 7 No. 1)
104
The One Hand Palm
1954
Handbook Of Card Sleights
8
Edward Marlo Action Palm - One Hand Control & Palm Sequence
Related to 1956
Action Palm
16
Edward Marlo One Hand Palm as Action Palm during an Overhand Shuffle or Dovetail Shuffle
Related to 1956
Action Palm
29
Edward Marlo The Table Edge Palm special small packet handling
 		1956
Action Palm
35
Edward Marlo Delayed One Hand Palm
Related to 1956
Action Palm
43
Edward Marlo One Hand Table Palm
1957
The Tabled Palm
2
Cliff Green Top-Palm one-handed top palm for dry hands
 		1961
Professional Card Magic
147
Harry Lorayne Double-Lift Palm palming second card the instant the top card is removed
Variations 1962
Close-up Card Magic
19
One Handed Top Palm brief description
 		1967
Charlie Miller Lecture Notes
23
Dr. Jacob Daley One Hand Spring Palm
1967 ca.
Legacy
9
Jean Hugard One Hand Top Card Palm
1968
The Card in the Purse
4
Harry Lorayne Double-Lift Palm palming second card the instant the top card is removed
 		1971
Reputation-Makers
242
Eddie Fechter Cover for the One-Handed Top Palm tapping deck on table
 		1972
Card Cavalcade
49
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Palm For Finish To Cards To Pocket No. 267, brief, multiple palm from small packet
Also published here 1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
66
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley On Hugard's Multiple One Hand Palm No. 269, for multiple cards with crimp preparation
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
66
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's One Hand Double Top Palm No. 320, top two cards, fourth finger contacts second card
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
84
Harry Lorayne One-Hand Top-Palm Method handling of standard method
 		1973
Rim Shots
57
One Hand Top Palm
1975
The Magic of Francis Carlyle
38
Dan MacMillan Right Hand One Hand Side Steal one-hand top palm action from center
 		1977
The Gamblers' Palm Revisited
46
Frederick Braue Cards to Pocket Palm
1978
Magic and Methods of Ross Bertram
73
Karl Fulves Double Palm palming top card in right hand and bottom card in left hand
 		1978
Transpo Trix
67
Trevor Lewis All Change color change, using a one-handed top palm with the second card from top, see p. 37 for credit information and variation by Stephen Tucker
Related to
  • Notes (David Britland, 1979)
  • Deane Moore's "The Clip Palm" in "Genii" Vol. 11, Nr. 10, 1947. P. 305.
Also published here
  • "Color Change" in "Abra" Nr. 1578, 1976. P. 352.
 1978
The Talon (Issue 2)
17
Steve Beam Rapid Transit card appears face-up on the deck (using one handed top palm) vanishes again (face up Tent vanish) and appears face up in the center of the deck
Also published here 1978
They Don't Make Trap Doors Like They Used To Do Or You Too Can Walk On Water
25
One-Hand Top Palm
  • How to Use it
  • Tips
 		1978
The second now you see it, now you don't!
52
One-Hand Top Palm II with aid of other hand
 		1978
The second now you see it, now you don't!
54
One-Hand Palm
1978
Real Magic
52
Karl Fulves One-Hand Second from Top Palm top card has corner missing
 		1979
The Topological False Count
5
The One-Hand Top Palm
1979
Close-up Entertainer
167
David Britland Notes on the one-handed top palm with second card from the top and Cross-Over Aces
Related to Jan. 1979
The Talon (Issue 3)
37
Edward Marlo One Hand Palm and Spread during a table spread
 		1980
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 4
90
Karl Fulves The Covered Top Palm method for palming the second, third... card from top (even center)
  • CTP Notes
 		1981
Side Steal
45
Karl Fulves Further Cover for Fulves' "Covered Top Palm"
  • Reference Note
 		1981
Side Steal
49
One Hand Top Palm
Related to 1981
Four Professional Card Tricks
16
Edward Marlo Refined One-Hand Palm
1982
Card Finesse
74
Frank Garcia A Secret Tip
1982
The Close-up Magic of Frank Garcia — Part I
42
Mike Bornstein One Hand Multiple Card Palm squeezing deck and separating cards with first finger, similiar to Rene Lavand's palm
 		1982
Triumph Outdone
42
Ross Bertram The Touch Palm tabled deck, one-handed
 		1983
Bertram on Sleight of Hand
135
Edward Marlo Multiple Tabled Palm
1984
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5
144
Edward Marlo Estimation Palm tip for 11th method on page 244
 		1984
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5
284
Harry Lorayne Double-Lift Palm palming second card the instant the top card is removed
 		1985
Best of Friends — Volume II
487
Gary Kurtz Example "The One Hand Top Palm and subsequent Flash Fold of a card supposedly placed into the centre of the deck"
Related to 1989
Misdirection and Direction
10
Harry Lorayne Second-Card Palm one-handed Palm of second from top card
Also published here May 1990
Apocalypse (Vol. 13 No. 5)
1782
Harry Lorayne One-Handed Handling for the onehanded top palm
 		June 1991
Apocalypse (Vol. 14 No. 6)
1935
Stephen Tucker One Hand Top Palm Ideas
  • The Force
  • The Switch
  • The Sucker Effect
  • The Visible Rise (visual ending for Ambitious Card)
 		1991
New Close-Up Lecture
1
Vanni Bossi One Hand Top Palm of More Cards
1991
Escorial 1991 — The Erdnase Year
22
Jon Racherbaumer Tip Top Palm multiple palm from tabled deck, one-handed
 		1992
Card Finesse II
68
Gary Kurtz Performing a One Hand Top Palm
Related to 1992
Leading with your Head
12
Harry Lorayne Second-Card Palm one-handed Palm of second from top card
Also published here 1993
Card File
116
Vicente Canuto 2.- Con una Mano one-handed top palm
 		1993
Cartomagia Fundamental
166
L'Homme Masqué One-Handed Spring Palm packet handling
 		1994
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2
224
Karl Fulves Covered Top Palm second from top, "Nottop Palm"
Related to 1994
Crooked Tales
84
The One-Handed Top Palm
1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 2 (Issue Close-up Entertainer)
170
Dr. Jacob Daley One-Hand Spring Palm multiple palm from small packet
 		1997
Notes
9
Jean Hugard One Hand Top Palm
1998
The Book
69
The One-handed Palm
Related to 1998
Card College — Volume 3
705
Justin Higham Dribble Shift and Palm with one-handed palm after shift with part of deck
 		1999
Arcardia
134
Karl Fulves One Handed Top Palm Handling tapping side on table
 		2000
Lost Vampire Secrets
189
Jean Hugard The Hugard One-Handed Palm
2000
Palming: For The Terrified
13
One Hand Top Palm
2000
Son of Simon Says!
41
L'Homme Masqué Palming Cards from the Top of the Pack one-handed spring palm
Also published here
  • La Prestidigitation sans Appareils, Gaultier, 1914
 July 2000
Genii (Vol. 63 No. 7)
35
One-Handed Top Palm brief
 		2002
Scams & Fantasies with Cards
125
Karl Fulves One-Hand Palm Glimpse & Crimp top card palmed and immediately replaced, glimpsed and curved
 		2002
Latter Day Secrets (Issue 7)
269
Wesley James Small Packet One-Handed Top Palm "SPOT Palm"
 		2004
Enchantments
82
Rudy T. Hunter Distant Misdirection Palm one-handed, out-jogged card is top card of left-hand half
 		2004
Sankey Unleashed
30
One Hand Top Palm as a color change
 		2004
Card Work, Card Play
36
Ray Kosby One-Hand Palm Transformation cards held spread in right-hand end grip and visible change
Inspired by Oct. 2005
Genii (Vol. 68 No. 10)
32
Doug Edwards Uplifted right hand top palm, one-handed top palm
  • Top Palm Color Change
 		2006
Brass Knuckles
8
Andi Gladwin Small Packet One Handed Multiple Top Palm
2006
Another Bite of the Cherry
66
Edward Marlo One Hand Top Palm Cover tapping cover
Related to 2008
The Ron Bauer 2008 Lecture
23
Dr. Jacob Daley One-Hand Spring Palm from a small packet
 		2008
The Magic of Ascanio — More Studies of Card Magic
108
Arturo de Ascanio Covering the One-Hand Spring Palm
Related to 2008
The Magic of Ascanio — More Studies of Card Magic
110
Tyler Wilson, Andi Gladwin One-Handed Top Palm Handling
2010
Reinventing the Real
81
Tyler Wilson One-hand Palm Credits
2010
Reinventing the Real
84
Benjamin Earl The One-Handed Top Palm "Ramblings on Card Stuff", opinion
 		Oct. 2010
Gambit (Issue 2)
13
One hand Top Palm
2010
Moments
95
One-hand Top Palm
2013
The Magic of Steven Hamilton
55
The One-Handed Top Palm
2014
Classic Fantastic
223
Vanni Bossi One-Handed Top Palm Handling with table-top safety
 		2016
The Aretalogy of Vanni Bossi
3
Roberto Giobbi The One-handed Palm tips on management
 		2016
Standup Card Magic
77
Harry Lorayne Palm From Double palming second card the instant the top card is removed
Inspired by 2018
And Finally!
153
Will Fern The Full Cut Palm cutting cover for one-hand top palm
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Feb. 2013
 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)
1184
Jamy Ian Swiss The One-Hand Top Palm comments on the sleight
 		2023
Topping the Deck
17
Jeff Silverstein Sleeve Tug Cover for one-handed top palm
 		2023
Topping the Deck
18