In the Hands

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Prof. Robert Hellis To "Change" a Card - Fifth Method "To change a card without the aid of the Pack"
in context of effect in which wrong card changes into selection
 Modern Magic 32
Prof. Robert Hellis Hellis' Change, No. 1 "To change a card without the aid of the Pack"
in context of effect in which wrong card changes into selection
 Tricks with Cards 23
Adrian Plate The Excelsior Change "Palm Change"
 New Era Card Tricks 22
Unknown Palm Change crude handling
 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 4 No. 8) 116
Adrian Plate The Palm Change uncredited
 The Expert at the Card Table 149
A. F. Kessler Die Verwandlung einer Karte double card shown, face card brought into back palm, for changing it back the card is replaced again
 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 8 No. 12) 179
A. J. Die Anziehungskraft gezogener Karten spectator finds his own card, using an unexplained switch of a card for a palmed card
 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 10 No. 11) 165
Unknown Palm Change no details
 The Art of Magic 59
Jack Merlin Floor Change throw change
 Merlin's Master Miracles 12
Adrian Plate Excelsior Change
Card Manipulations (Issue 4) 117
Arthur Leroy Breast Pocket Switch card is sticking out of pocket and switched as it is removed
Related to Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 28
Unknown A Palm Switch
Greater Magic 326
Arthur Leroy Breast Pocket Switch miscredited to Hal Leroy
Related to Greater Magic 328
Unknown New Vertical Palm small packet
Related to Expert Card Technique 54
Unknown The Rear Palm Exchange
Expert Card Technique 140
Unknown 20 - The "Change" Throw. The Throw Change
 "Outs" Precautions and Challenges 33
Laurie Ireland Buckley Change Variation variation on the floor / throw change
 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1940) 14
Clayton Rawson Card Switch
Related to The Phoenix 1-50 (Issue 3) 10
Unknown Single Hand Card Change toss change
 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2 184
Unknown Throw Change
Off the Top 14
Unknown The Throw Change
Card Control 76
Unknown Throw Change
The Phoenix 101-150 (Issue 137) 551
Paul LePaul, Dr. Jacob Daley Bottom Card Steal as a Switch gambler's cop as a switch using a double
 The Card Magic of Le Paul 156
Unknown Throw Change
The Cardician 10
Edward Marlo Miracle Change No. 1
  • Method No. 1 (seated)
  • Method No. 2 (seated or standing)
  • Method No. 3 (unload on deck)
  • Method No. 4 (stand-up)
Related toVariations Miracle Card Changes 3
Edward Marlo Miracle Change No. 2 into LTP
Related toVariations Miracle Card Changes 11
Edward Marlo Miracle Change No. 3 into "Master Palm"
Related to Miracle Card Changes 14
Dai Vernon To Exchange a Card Tenkai Palm Switch
Variations The Dai Vernon Book of Magic 77
Dai Vernon One-handed Card Change to gambler's palm
 Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic 66
Edward Marlo An Impressive Sequence single card is switched for palmed card
 Card Switches 12
Edward Marlo Miracle Card Change variation
 Card Switches 14
Edward Marlo A Simpler Sequence single card is switched for palmed card
 Card Switches 16
Edward Marlo A Third Sequence single card is switched for palmed card
 Card Switches 17
Edward Marlo First Switch single card is switched for palmed card
 Card Switches 20
Edward Marlo Variations of the First Switch three variations
 Card Switches 21
Edward Marlo Marlo's Card Switch isolated card(s) are switched for palmed card(s)
 Card Switches 24
Edward Marlo Methods of Disclosure:
The Delayed Disclosure
The Indirect Disclosure
The Direct Disclosure 		handlings and stagings of the previous Marlo Card Switch
 Card Switches 27
Edward Marlo In and Out Switches four methods
 Card Switches 35
Edward Marlo Without the Deck
Card Switches 42
Edward Marlo Angle Palm Switch switch or steal
 Card Switches 46
Cliff Green Coptomania palming cards off double or multiple card
 Professional Card Magic 84
Clayton Rawson, Cliff Green The 90 Per Cent Perfect Change attention to position of feet is given
Related to Professional Card Magic 34
Ross Bertram Pivot Change into Tenkai
 Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic 203
Adrian Plate Palm Change
Expert Card Mysteries 43
Edward Marlo Pivot Tenkai Palm
Hierophant (Issue 5-6) 270
Chris Gosselin Mother Kelly's Card Change
Expert Card Chicanery 65
Frank Garcia Double Lift and Change getting double in position for change throw
 Super Subtle Card Miracles 163
Unknown The Roterberg Excelsior Card Change
Related to The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 10 No. 5) 875
Russell T. Barnhart Aladdin Switch No. 9, stealing bottom card of double into Master Palm, without deck
 The Master Palm 28
Edward Marlo Marlo's Deal Switch Thought of Card appears between Mates, using a switch
Related toVariationsAlso published here Marlo's Magazine Volume 1 1
Edward Marlo marlo's deal switch named card appears between sandwich cards on table
VariationsAlso published here Kabbala — Volume 3 (Vol. 3 No. 10) 140
Karrell Fox "Clippety-Slip" card with paper clip on it thrown to table, it changes into selection, throw-change with paper clip
 Clever.... Like a Fox 73
Edward Marlo Paper Clip Miracle Changes note
 Marlo's Magazine Volume 2 157
Edward Marlo More Miracle Card Changes different variations (including tabled)
Related toVariationsAlso published here Marlo's Magazine Volume 2 149
Gene Maze Double Deal Switch
Packet Switches (Part Four) 261
Gene Maze Finger Roll Switch
Packet Switches (Part Five) 307
Gene Maze Flip-Up Switch one-handed
 Packet Switches (Part Four) 220
Karl Fulves Sleeving Switch
Impromptu Holdouts 33
Ross Bertram The Pivot Change using Tenkai Palm
 Magic and Methods of Ross Bertram 61
Danny Korem Miracle Card Change pendulum holdout
 The Upside Down Toppit 16
Dai Vernon Vernon Card Change using Tenkai Palm, dated 1953
 Magic and Methods of Ross Bertram 59
Ross Bertram Bertram's One-Hand Card Change using Tenkai Palm
 Magic and Methods of Ross Bertram 66
Karl Fulves Hole-Card Switch see end notes for variations
 Transpo Trix 69
Edward Marlo Simulated Visual Retention Switches
Marlo's Magazine Volume 3 263
Edward Marlo More Card Switches two methods, also with paper clip on card
 Marlo's Magazine Volume 3 254
Edward Marlo Cased Switches - 4th Approach: Delayed Card Switch
Marlo's Magazine Volume 3 283
Edward Marlo Additional Tips - Visual Retention Switch on Visual Retention Switch, see page 271
 Marlo's Magazine Volume 3 371
Richard Kaufman, Bruce Ikefugi A Card in Bill Switch: Standing switching a card that's wrapped in a bill
 CardMagic 20
Unknown Pivot Switch
CardMagic 116
Richard Kaufman One More: This Time Sitting switching a card that's wrapped in a bill
Inspired by CardMagic 24
Gene Maze Rollaround Cop stealing card from douple
 CardMagic 145
Richard Kaufman The Rotating Pinch Steal (RPS) stealing card from douple into clip position
 CardMagic 149
Cliff Green Ninety Percent Perfect Steal
Inspired by CardMagic 172
Cliff Green Ninety Percent Perfect Change
Inspired by CardMagic 172
Edward Marlo Turnover Deal Switch with pen in switching hand
 Marlo's Magazine Volume 4 59
Edward Marlo, Dai Vernon Adding A Retention Of Vision to the Vernon Tenkai Change
 Marlo's Magazine Volume 4 62
Edward Marlo First Switch, Second Switch, Third Switch card, packet or deck switch, lapping or palm to palm, Tenkai palm
 Marlo's Magazine Volume 4 213
Paul Harris Bold Switch a bit like a Downs Change without deck
 Close-up Fantasies - Book I 58
Edward Marlo Miracle Card Change No. 1
French Pasteboards 28
Cliff Green 90% Perfect Change
Related to Apocalypse Vol. 1-5 (Vol. 4 No. 10) 548
Richard Kaufman Lateral Palm Switch one for one of several palmed
 Kabbala - Volume 2 (Vol. 2 No. 9) 69
Fred Kaps Card Switch while turning card over
 The Commercial Card Magic of Roger Crosthwaite 45
Juan Tamariz Tamariz Change described with lapping
Also published here Magia Potagia — Volume I 41
Don England The Cliff-hanger Change not really visual
 Card Finesse 40
Ross Bertram, Edward Marlo Pivot Change
For Your Entertainment Pleasure 89
Derek Dingle The Alpha Toss Toss Change Handling, see also page 24 for visual change idea
 The Collected Almanac (Vol. 1 No. 1) 1
Unknown Palm Steal
The Complete Works of Derek Dingle 19
Steve Beam, Edward Marlo The SHOTB Change "Stuff hanging out the back" change
Inspired by The Changing of the Cards 30
Bob Chesbro Folded Card Switch
The Tipnician 26
Ross Bertram An Unusual Change using Tenkai Palm
 Bertram on Sleight of Hand 168
Ross Bertram Top Card Switch While Holding Out starts and ends with Tenkai palmed card and deck in left hand
 Bertram on Sleight of Hand 165
Edward Marlo Black Jack spectator finds ace of spades to make perfect black jack hand
 Marlo's Magazine Volume 5 280
Stephen Tucker Breaking the Silence Weird card switch, card that is switched out ends up being bent in half
 The Card-Mad-gic of Stephen Tucker 10
Dai Vernon Vernon Change Tenkai Palm
 Marlo's Magazine Volume 5 239
Richard Kaufman, Derek Dingle Alpha Toss Variation to change normal sized card to miniature card
 The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 4 48
Russell T. Barnhart Squeeze Steal as Switch with double
 Best of Friends — Volume II 205
Frederick Braue FB Card Change hard to understand (1937)
 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 5
Frederick Braue FB Change "This is the best of all card changes.", Excelsior switch with thumb palm (1937)
 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 19
Unknown Floor Change Throw Change onto the floor
 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 1) 10
Adrian Plate Palm Change
The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 172
Geoffrey Latta The Isolated Switch Tenkai Palm steal of front card of a double, also with immediate lapping
 Apocalypse Vol. 6-10 (Vol. 9 No. 12) 1285
Dai Vernon The Rising Sun very clean phase, one-handed Tenkai Switch
 The Vernon Chronicles - Volume 1 164
Dai Vernon On the Palm Change
The Vernon Chronicles - Volume 1 74
Morris Loewy Loewy Palm from double
 The Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner 66
Meir Yedid The Tubular Steal/Switch switch of rolled card, starting with double
 Meir Yedid's Card Animations 11
Ken Simmons Additions to a Change unload into center
Inspired byRelated to Riffling the Pasteboards — Again! 38
Edward Marlo More Miracle Card Changes - First Method
Also published here Riffling the Pasteboards — Again! 38
Dai Vernon Tenkai-palm Switch
The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 2 104
Larry Jennings Gambler's Cop management to cop off the bottom card of a double
 The Cardwright 11
José Carroll Thumb Palm Switch double, one card stolen
 52 Lovers 130
Eugene Burger Colour Change
The Experience of Magic 35
Edward Marlo Pivot Switchout
So Soon? 4
Dai Vernon, Edward Marlo Vernon Tenkai Switch Handling
So Soon? 51
Edward Marlo Simplex Card Switch from 1 to 52 cards
 So Soon? 5
Juan Tamariz The Talisman card changes under challenge conditions, several variations
 Sonata 131
Juan Tamariz Tamariz Change described with lapping
Also published here Sonata 138
Ken Krenzel Finger Servante Card Change
Close-up Impact! 165
Ken Krenzel The Organic Tunnel Change card pushed through fist changes, ungaffed
 Close-up Impact! 133
Edward Marlo Miracle Change #3 brief
 Stop Fooling Us Lecture Notes 47
Edward Marlo, Michael Powers More Miracle Card Changes with unload under top card of deck
Related to Top Secret Stuff 52
Vanni Bossi The Folded Color Change folded card is unfolded and displayed, folded up and unfolded again and is transformed
 Vanni Bossi NEW Lecture Notes 10
Carl Albright LTP Switch unloading on the deck
 Apocalypse Vol. 16-20 (Vol. 16 No. 10) 2276
Alex Elmsley Breast Pocket Switch card in LTP for card openly in breast pocket
Related to The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2 209
Gene Maze Basic Unit Grip Switch
Gene Maze And The Art Of Bottom Dealing 160
Dai Vernon Vernon Change
Roger's Thesaurus 29
Roger Crosthwaite Pocket Switch card sticking out of breast pocket, removed with one hand, see also p. 234 for credit information
Related to
  • Ed Marlo in "Technomagic" No. 12 (Justin Higham, June 1991)
 Roger's Thesaurus 30
Roger Crosthwaite LTP Miracle Steal
Inspired by Roger's Thesaurus 92
Michael Vincent Incredible Deal Switch
Inspired byRelated to Roger's Thesaurus 99
Adrian Plate Palm Change
Cardshark 55
Roger Crosthwaite LTP Change
Apocalypse Vol. 16-20 (Vol. 19 No. 12) 2726
Adrian Plate, S. W. Erdnase Palm Change
The Looking Glass (Issue 1) 21
Edward Marlo Miracle Change No. 2 with unload
Related to Arempi 11
Adrian Plate Excelsior Change Erdnase Palm Change
 Jennings '67 192
Unknown Wild Card Move
L.I.N.T. - Pocket Stuff for Close-Up Magicians 13
Adrian Plate Palm Change brief
 Down Under Deals 5
Guy Hollingworth Hugard Top Palm as Change
Drawing Room Deceptions 79
Dai Vernon Tenkai Palm Switch
Drawing Room Deceptions 79
Edward Marlo Miracle Change No. 2
Arempi II 10
Roger Crosthwaite Breast Pocket Switch as it is removed
Related to Arcardia 90
Prof. Robert Hellis To Change One Card Without the Pack No. 14, "Known as Hellis' Change No. 1"
 Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 262
Adrian Plate The "Excelsior" Change for One Card No. 16
Variations Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 264
Edward Marlo, Barry Price The Miracle Card Change with flat palm handling for more cover
Related to Palming: For The Terrified 16
Helge Thun Folded Card Switch as it is removed from finger, like thimble
 Concertos for Pasteboard 154
Helge Thun Folded Card Switch as it is removed from finger, like thimble
 Faustdick hinterm Schlitzohr 11
S. W. Erdnase, Darwin Ortiz Palm Change Steal
Scams & Fantasies with Cards 115
R. Paul Wilson Box-Witch card on card case is switched, with several applications
 13 26
Arthur Trace The Relativity Switch Out Card is switched while tossed on table
 It's All Relative 31
Unknown Angle Wise Change
Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks - Volume 1 16
Tony Miller Zipper Switch card is stuck in waistband and pulled through zipper and switched
 Reinventing the Real 56
Dan Garrett One-Handed Switch
Moments 100
Steven Hamilton Throw Switch Handling without throw
 The Magic of Steven Hamilton 129
Peter McKinnon Crow double, one-handed change
 Burn After Reading 8
Daniel Madison Back Deal Doing a 'Bottom Deal' with a card in left hand Back Palm, can also be used as a single card switch
 Placebo 45
Guy Hollingworth The Topless Change without deck
 Renovations 5
Adrian Plate Palm Change
Switch 5
Vanni Bossi The Folding Color Change folded card is unfolded and displayed, folded up and unfolded again and is transformed
 The Aretalogy of Vanni Bossi 42
Alexander Hansford Lateral Palm Switch
Kino. 68
Alexander Hansford Modified Vernon Switch
Inspired by Kino. 70
Benjamin Earl Folded Card Switch switching two folded cards, à la Annemann Billet Switch
 The Shift #1 2
Tom Gagnon Loewy Palm from Paper Clipped Double
Gagnon Unfiltered 124