Handling Finesses

70 entries in Cards / Sleights / Handling Finesses
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
S. W. Erdnase Mode of Holding the Hand how to hold the hand for poker playing
Related to 1902
The Expert at the Card Table
104
Lin Searles Holding Deck Lightly like a bird
Related to 1938
The Card Expert
12
Dropping a Card on the Floor flat, so it does not turn over
 		1939
The Magic Annual for 1938 and 1939
19
The Matchbook Easel using a matchbook as a display stand for a card
Also published here 1940
Expert Card Technique
413
Displaying the Top Card three handlings
 		1948
The Royal Road to Card Magic
37
The Master Aim How to drop a card into a hat without the card fluttering away
 		1949
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards
12
Edward Marlo Beveled Edge to hide thickness of packet held in end grip, razor edge
 		1953
The Future Classic
3
Dai Vernon To Show the Top Card
1959
Inner Secrets of Card Magic
35
Karrell Fox Lost and Found matchbook as card easel, wrong card changes into selection when deck is riffled against it on easel
Related toVariations 1960
Comedy a la Card
9
Edward Marlo Concentrate Approach verbal ploy to make a thought-of card out of a peeked-at/selected card
 		May 1962
Ibidem (Issue 25)
16
Larry Jennings, Roy Walton The Jennings-Walton Show showing face of sandwiched card after blockturnover
 		1969
Expert Card Mysteries
55
Herbert Hood Herb Hood's Match Packet As Card Stand No. 404, using a matchbook as a display stand for a card, with Dr. Jacob Daley improvement
Also published here 1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
110
Jerry K. Hartman Turnover Glide Handling of Glide so that you end with deck face down in left hand
 		1973
Means & Ends
13
Edward Marlo Accidental Face-Up Row subtlety, "oh, these should have been face-down"
 		1974
The Unexpected Card Book
79
Working Behind Your Back how to minimize arm movement
 		1978
The second now you see it, now you don't!
79
Thickness Concealment Grip
1979
CardMagic
133
Juan Tamariz El Control Perpendicular (TPC) (V) on
  • Ocultación doblando la carta en posición perpendicular
  • Ocultación por abanico en mano izquierda
  • Variante
Also published here Mar. 1979
Circular de la Escuela Mágica de Madrid (Vol. 5 No. 51)
120
Edward Marlo A Ribbon Spread Tip hiding reversed cards under top card in table spread
 		1980
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 4
123
Edward Marlo Hiding Perpendicular Card Under Spread
1980
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 4
266
Ken De Courcy Climax how to show a card at the climax of a trick
 		1980
Cards in Cabaret
45
Petrick Display Finesse nice way to display the four aces easel like
 		Aug. 1983
Apocalypse (Vol. 6 No. 8)
814
Ross Bertram A Tip on Card Handling
  • Picking Up The Deck
  • Picking Up a Single Card
 		1983
Bertram on Sleight of Hand
250
Max Malini Malini Shake detail as card is displayed
 		1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2)
28
Ben Harris Card Stand card stand torn from another card
 		1985
Out Of His Mind!
21
Roy Walton Walton Show showing face of sandwiched card after blockturnover
 		1986
The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings
19
Larry Jennings, Roy Walton The Jennings-Walton Show
Related to 1986
The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings
160
Dai Vernon On the Turn of a Card revealing a chosen card (Leipzig, Rosini)
 		1987
The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 1
1
Steve Draun Snap-Back Sleight
Also published here 1987
The Magic of Steve Draun
9
Karrell Fox Revelation via Matchbook matchbooks as easel
 		Feb. 1988
Apocalypse (Vol. 11 No. 2)
1460
Juan Tamariz Concealing the card in PP by Bending it TPC
Also published here 1989/91
Sonata
37
Alex Elmsley A Bluff Hand-to-hand Transfer while maintaining a break
 		1991
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 1
92
Roger Klause Having Card Chosen from Fan fan should be vertical
 		1991
Roger Klause: In Concert
163
Max Malini, Howard Schwarzman Malini's Invitation how to have a card selected
Also published here 1992
Card Finesse II
151
Steve Draun Snap-Back Sleight card jumps back on the deck
Related toAlso published here 1993
Secrets Draun from Underground
117
Matchbook Easel
1993
Card File
179
Joe Rindfleisch A Pretty Ace Display
Oct. 1995
Apocalypse (Vol. 18 No. 10)
2565
Thomas Fraps Dribbled technique for dribbling a deck while maintaining an jog
 		1998
The Book
124
One-Hand Deck Flip simply turning the deck over in left hand
 		Mar. 1998
MAGIC (Vol. 7 No. 7)
74
Paul LePaul Flourish a card shows up
Related to 1999
21st Century Card Magic
17
Steve Draun Snap-Back Sleight card jumps back on the deck
Also published here 1999
Cyber Sessions
136
Fredric P. Lamazor M. Random Tools list of various miscellaneous techniques with comments
 		1999
Card Sleight of Hand Innovations And Improvements
13
Paul Rosini Revealing a Selection
July/Aug. 2001
Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 1 No. 2)
11
Earl Nelson, R. Paul Wilson Smoking the Deck blowing through an inflated deck to break it in more quickly
 		Dec. 2002
MAGIC (Vol. 12 No. 4)
73
Bob White Handling a Single Card from "Supplement to Notes"
and on the Flash Double
Related toAlso published here 2003
It's a Matter of Style
36
Bob White Handling a Single Card
Also published here 2005
It's a Matter of Style (2005 edition)
15
Roy Walton Walton Show
2006
The Magic of Ascanio — Studies of Card Magic
278
Tip to pick pile of cards off table smoothly essentially the Howard Schwarzman tip, not credited
 		2007
Card Dupery
4
Jerry K. Hartman Tabling cards from dealing grip small tip to do so smoothly and not awkwardly, also see p. 222
 		2007
Card Dupery
205
Jerry K. Hartman Tabling cards from dealing grip small tip to do so smoothly and not awkwardly, also see p. 205
 		2007
Card Dupery
222
David Malek Dealing Procedure in Gambling Demonstrations how to speed up dealing for a game
Also published here Feb. 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 2)
21
Steven Youell The Camouflage Spread spreading in a less neat way
 		2009
Weapons of Mass Deception
45
Howard Schwarzman Picking Up the Deck picking up deck from smooth surface
 		2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Feb 3)
41
David Malek Dealing Procedure in Gambling Demonstrations how to speed up dealing for a game
Also published here 2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Apr 28)
129
Dai Vernon, Roberto Giobbi Cutting to a Crimp
2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Aug 24)
254
Roberto Giobbi Change Plane doing selection with faces towards spectator
 		2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue Nov 3)
316
Paul Harris Squiggle Flourish repositioning of four-card packet
 		2016
Magnum Opossum
86
Roy Walton The Walton Show
2016
Notes de Causerie
23
Allan Ackerman Packet Displacement choreography for transferring bottom card to top in small packet
 		2019
Card Theater
10
Roy Walton The Walton Show
2019
Grand Livre de Cartomagie
207
Steve Draun Snap-Back Sleight Card jumps back on the deck
Also published here 2021
Kranzilla Unleashed
67
Jim Steinmeyer Card Case as Card Stand to display cards up-right
 		July 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 7)
49
Max Malini Malini's Invitation how to have a card selected
Also published here 2022
Max Malini
278
Dai Vernon Into and Out of a Move from private lecture notes by Gene Matsuura
 		2022
Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic
105
Andi Gladwin Hiding Something About a Card showing bottom card of fanned portion while covering part of it
 		2022
The Reverse Cull
47
Pedro Lacerda Lacerda's Turnover flourishy way to turn the deck over
 		2023
The Finest Magic of Pedro Lacerda
286
Roberto Giobbi Envelope Stand using an envelope as a card stand
 		2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue Apr 30)
132
Roberto Giobbi Inserting a Card into the Deck spreading the deck with out-jogged card before pushing it in
 		2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue May 21)
153
Petrick Card Card-Stand fan of Aces stands on table held with another card at their back
 		2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue Nov. 15)
331
Helge Thun Hands Up! "The unsquared fingertip rest position"
on stand-up card work, holding the un-squared deck between thumb and fingers carelessly
 		2025
Evidence of a Well Spent Life
41
Tim Conover Turning a Card on the turnover of a card at the end of an effect
 		2025
Conover — Volume 1: The Magic of Tim Conover
xxviii