Diminishing Cards

56 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
	The Diminishing and Dissolving Cards	two versions		1889	Tricks with Cards	148	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Cards passing up the Sleeve, and the Diminishing and Increasing Cards	"dexterous card-palming supplemented by unflinching audacity", diminishing cards as fake explanation		1890	More Magic	57	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Up the Sleeve type Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
	Mechanical Diminishing Cards	described in addition to sleight-of-hand method		1890	More Magic	64	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
L'Homme Masqué	Die Karten als Liliputaner	No. 8		1895	Der Kartenkünstler	96	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
L'Homme Masqué, Carl Willmann	Das Verkleinerungs-Kartenspiel	gaff set	Also published here L'Homme Masqué's The Diminishing Deck of Cards (L'Homme Masqué, Carl Willmann, 2000) La Bara Disminución del Hombre Enmascarado (Carl Willmann, L'Homme Masqué, 2012)	Dec. 1895	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 1 No. 12)	184	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
	Verkleinerungskarte	single card shrinks and vanishes	Related to The Diminishing Card (1897)	1896	Der moderne Kartenkünstler	139	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Friedrich W. Conradi-Horster	Das Verkleinerungsspiel	three methods, second one by Conradi		1896	Der moderne Kartenkünstler	153	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Carl Willmann	Briefkasten	answering letters, on diminishing card effect, anonymous letteres		Feb. 1896	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 2 No. 2)	32	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards Articles / Letters
Hugo Kramer	Das Verkleinerungs-Kartenspiel			Apr. 1896	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 2 No. 4)	55	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
	Das Verkleinerungs-Kartenspiel			May 1896	Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 1 No. 9)	131	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Friedrich W. Conradi-Horster	Das Verkleinerungsspiel	"Original-Ausführung von F. W. Conradi"		June 1896	Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 1 No. 10)	145	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Carl Braun	Diminishing Cards			June 1896	Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 1 No. 10)	148	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
	The Diminishing Card	gaffed	Related to Verkleinerungskarte (1896)	1897	New Era Card Tricks	225	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
	The Diminishing Cards	gaffed, four methods		1897	New Era Card Tricks	270	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Carl Willmann	Die Vergrößerung und Verkleinerung eines Kartenspieles	ungaffed à la Robert-Houdin		Feb. 1898	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 4 No. 2)	19	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Charles Bertram	The Diminishing Cards	gaffed set		1902	The Modern Conjurer	92	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Charles Bertram	The Diminishing Cards			1904	Modern Card Manipulation	66	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
	The Expanding and Diminishing Cards	in several stages, vanish finale		1935	Card Manipulations (Issue 4)	118	Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Fans with tricky purpose Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Diminishing Cards	fans		1938	Greater Magic	12	Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Fans with tricky purpose Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Audley Walsh	The Assorted Cards	elaborate diminishing cards routine		1940	The Jinx (Issue 90)	563	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
	The Diminishing Cards - Sleight of Hand Method			1941	More Card Manipulations (Issue 4)	48	Cards / Manipulation / Routines Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Deck Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Fans with tricky purpose Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Paul LePaul	Diminishing Card Finesse	with deck vanish finale		1941	More Card Manipulations (Issue 4)	51	Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Charlie Miller	The Diminishing Cards - Mechanical Method			1941	More Card Manipulations (Issue 4)	52	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Tom Sellers	Easy Diminishing Cards			1943	Twenty Tricks	13	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Phil J. Flad, Jr.	A Diminishing Card	one card shrinks, back palm handling		Aug. 1944	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 2 No. 3)	64	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Back Palm Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Billy McComb	Assorted Gaglets of the William Brand	gags with, thimbles, a mouse trap, a spring snake, with ropes, hair, light bulbs, coffee beans, diminishing cards, cracking a spectator's arm, dead rat	Variations Billy's Thimble (Billy McComb, Patrick Page, 2011)	1947	The First Book of William	37	Rope / Miscellaneous Animal / Mice Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards Light & Fire / Light Bulb Animal / Snake Trap
	Enlarging and Diminishing Cards	classic fan technique	Related to The Shrink (Steve Beam, 1984)	1948	The Royal Road to Card Magic	276	Cards / Manipulation / Routines Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Jean Hugard	Enlarging and Diminishing Cards	using a stripper deck	Variations Enlarging and Diminishing (Dudley Fossum, 1950) Also published here in "Magic Mirror" November, 1911	Jan. 1950	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 7 No. 8)	617	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Stretching Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Dudley Fossum	Enlarging and Diminishing	method to vanish deck after diminishing cards, black art well table	Inspired by Enlarging and Diminishing Cards (Jean Hugard, 1950)	Mar. 1950	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 7 No. 10)	639	Table & Servante Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Milbourne Christopher, Lloyd W. Chambers	The Shrinking Card	with slat frame		June 1950	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 8 No. 1)	675	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Lewis Ganson	Diminishing and Expanding Cards	in stages	Inspired by Ganson's routine in "Expert Manipulation of Playing Cards"	1956	Unconventional Magic	41	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Bob Ostin	Diminishing Cards - Vanish for Last Set			1968	Fingertip Fantasies	71	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Ellison Poland	A Card Fanning Routine	card fans, color changes, productions, diminishing cards	Variations A Pitchman's Spiel (Ellison Poland, George Vaughn Boisvin, 1994)	1969	Wonderful Routines of Magic	99	Cards / Manipulation / Routines Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
	Cards To Pocket Routine	No. 486, ten cards, suggestion to follow with diminishing cards		1972	Jacob Daley's Notebooks	135	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Up the Sleeve type Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Edward G. Brown	The Diminishing Cards			1973	The Card Magic of Edward G. Brown	99	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Pocket or Envelope Card Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
	Diminishing Fan			1976	Now you see it, now you don't!	67	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Bob Ostin	The Serendipity Card Change	card is vanished and when produced it is diminished, brief		1976 ca.	Sleightly Surprising	4	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Back Palm Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Karrell Fox	The Di-Minish Finish	addition for ungaffed version		1979	Another Book	105	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Steve Dusheck	Diminishing Deck			1980 ca.	Lecture Notes	16	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
"Magic" Christian Stelzel	Diminishing Cards	cards are changed into bill at the end		1983	Lecture Magic	14	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation - card-object / Other Object Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Steve Beam	The Shrink	humorous patter for diminishing cards	Inspired by Enlarging and Diminishing Cards (1948) Related to The Shrink II (Steve Beam, Phillip Young, 1986)	1984	The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 4)	63	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Edward Victor	Diminishing Card Trick	with confetti finale		1985	The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 1)	21	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Ben Harris	Frink	instant shrinking fan, ungaffed		1985	Out Of His Mind!	126	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Steve Beam, Phillip Young	The Shrink II	patter and routine, gaffed	Related to The Shrink (Steve Beam, 1984)	1986	The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 15)	253	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
T. Page Wright	The Diminishing and Enlarging Cards	with credit information and historical comments, for enlarging part a stripper deck with alternating orientation is used		1991	Page Wright's Manuscript	158	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Jim Steinmeyer	Smaller and Smaller	Conjuring		Feb. 1993	MAGIC (Vol. 2 No. 6)	40	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Pocket or Envelope Card Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Ellison Poland, George Vaughn Boisvin	A Pitchman's Spiel	presentation for card fans, color changes, productions, diminishing cards	Inspired by A Card Fanning Routine (Ellison Poland, 1969)	1994	Wonderful Routines of Magic — The Second Addendum	51	Cards / Manipulation / Routines Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Tommy Wonder	The Snail's Progress	static fan gets smaller visually and disappears		1996	The Books of Wonder — Volume 2	154	Cards / Manipulation / Routines Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Curtis Kam	Shrink a Card	diminishing cards in stages, miniature card removed from fan which is selection, deck grows again		1996	Professional Close-up of Curtis Kam	59	Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Force and unusual Discovery Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Dondrake	Handling BlackArt Cards	Vanishing Card Vanishing Jumbo Card Diminishing Card		1998	Black Art Breakthroughs	9	Cards / Principles / Black Art Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Black Art Back
L'Homme Masqué, Carl Willmann	L'Homme Masqué's The Diminishing Deck of Cards	"Arranged by Carl Willmann" gaff set	Also published here Das Verkleinerungs-Kartenspiel (L'Homme Masqué, Carl Willmann, 1895) La Bara Disminución del Hombre Enmascarado (Carl Willmann, L'Homme Masqué, 2012)	July 2000	Genii (Vol. 63 No. 7)	34	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Al Baker	Diminishing Cards	elaborate gaffs	Related to Al Baker's Diminishing Cards (Wolfgang Moser, 2011) Also published here marketed 1933	2003	The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Instructions)	551	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Pete Biro	Biro's One Piece Diminishing Cards			Aug. 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 8)	76	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Wolfgang Moser	Al Baker's Diminishing Cards	using the "trouser-leg-servante" to dich the packets	Related to Diminishing Cards (Al Baker, 2003)	2011	Kreationen	32	Pocket Techniques / Body Servante Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Carl Willmann, L'Homme Masqué	La Bara Disminución del Hombre Enmascarado	gaff set	Also published here Das Verkleinerungs-Kartenspiel (L'Homme Masqué, Carl Willmann, 1895) L'Homme Masqué's The Diminishing Deck of Cards (L'Homme Masqué, Carl Willmann, 2000)	2012	El Manuscrito (Vol. 5 No. 21)	690	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
John Graham	Never the Less	gag diminishing cards routine, holding progressively larger card next to standard-sized fan repeatedly		2021	Stage by Stage	181	Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Gags Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards