Back Palm

93 entries in Cards / Sleights / Palming / Back Palm
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
The Back Hand Palm
1897 New Era Card Tricks 32
La carte tournée card vanishes into back palm
 		Oct. 1897 Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 3 No. 4) 49
Das Erscheinen und Verschwinden einer Karte in freier Hand "Die Kartenschule von Carl Willmann"
vanish and production of single card with back palm, with pivot to show both hands empty
 		Apr. 1898 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 4 No. 4) 51
Hänsel Kastner Die blitzschnelle Wanderung einer Karte signed card shuffled back by spectator, it travels through knee and appears in other hand
 		Nov. 1901 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 7 No. 11) 163
Carl Willmann Das Erscheinen mehrer Karten nacheinander an den Fingerspitzen der rechten Hand single card production from stack of cards in back palm
 		Dec. 1901 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 7 No. 12) 180
The Back Palm
1902 The Expert at the Card Table 145
The Back and Front of Hand Continuous Palm with Cards
1902 The Modern Conjurer 46
Back Palming and Recovery of Four Cards one by one, with upright metal rod, with four clips to display the four cards
 		1902 The Modern Conjurer 97
Das Erscheinen mehrerer Karten nacheinander an den Fingerspitzen der rechten Hand "Die Kartenschule"
single card production routine, hand shown empty after temporarily loading back-palmed cards perpendicularly behind fan of already produced cards à la Thurston Five Card Routine
 		Jan. 1902 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 8 No. 1) 2
Hänsel Kastner Der Fächer als Kartenmagnet card vanishes in fan (not a card fan) and reappears from fan
 		July 1902 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 8 No. 7) 102
Hänsel Kastner La carte tournée und deren Variation back palm applications
  • I. card tossed against door vanishes, is reproduced from other side
  • II. card through table
 		Sep. 1902 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 8 No. 9) 132
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
 		Dec. 1902 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 8 No. 12) 179
Der Spaziergang einer Karte durch das Knie des Künstlers "by A. M.", card through knee with back palm
 		Feb. 1904 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 10 No. 2) 20
Paul Valadon The Back and Front of Hand Continuous Palm with Cards illustrated with photographs of Paul Valadon
 		1904 Modern Card Manipulation 30
The Old "Back-Palm" Again shifting cards from back palm to front, while holding card with same hand
 		1933 Expert Manipulative Magic 5
Charles Eastman No Thumb Back Palm
1933 Expert Manipulative Magic 7
Charles Eastman The Expert Acquitment with Cards choreography to show both sides of hands empty
 		1933 Expert Manipulative Magic 25
Charles T. Jordan Like Seeks Like Ace assembly with four hats, "A trick which makes use of the back palm as a secret sleight."
 		1937 Encyclopedia of Card Tricks 344
Edward Marlo Backpalm
1941 Card Fan Productions 6
Hank Nowoc Flesh Color Corned Cards for back palming
 		1941 Card Fan Productions 17
Back and Front Hand Palming vanish and production with pivot
 		1942/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2 157
Back Palm
1942/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2 158
To Produce Card single card from back palm
 		1942/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2 160
To Produce Cards in a Fan from back palm
 		1942/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2 161
Paul Fox Simplified Back and Front Hand Palm
1942/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2 161
Paul Fox Back Hand Color Change using back palm
 		1942/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2 174
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on a show by the IBM ring NYC, John Scarne, Jimmy Grippo, how to soften a deck for back palming, two newspaper clippings from Dunninger
 		1943 The Phoenix 1-50 (Issue 31) 130
Jean Hugard The Back Palm as a Secret Sleight on the history and several techniques
a. The vanish
b. The reverse palm
c. Transfer a card from regular palm to the front palm
d. To back palm a card directly from the deck
Tricks using the back palm as a secret sleight
 		Dec. 1943 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 1 No. 7) 29
The Crystal Casket chosen card travels to glass which was shown empty and is wrapped in handkerchief
 		Dec. 1943 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 1 No. 7) 31
A Hat and a Card card penetrates hat
 		Dec. 1943 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 1 No. 7) 31
Impromptu Rising Card
Dec. 1943 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 1 No. 7) 32
A Surprise Handshake cards are produced after handshake with spectator
 		Dec. 1943 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 1 No. 7) 32
Jean Hugard Hey! Presto! selection appears in a glass held by performer
 		Jan. 1944 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 1 No. 8) 35
Jean Hugard Back Palm Change Using a Handkerchief
Jan. 1944 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 1 No. 8) 35
Phil J. Flad, Jr. A Diminishing Card one card shrinks, back palm handling
 		Aug. 1944 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 2 No. 3) 64
Clyde Cairy Metamorphoses card rubbed to thigh changes several times, back palm
 		Oct. 1944 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 2 No. 5) 77
Jean Hugard Cards from the Sleeve cards travel from pocket to hand, reverse up the sleeve
 		Dec. 1944 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 2 No. 7) 91
A Book and a Card card is put in book and rises from there, using back palm
 		1945/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4 148
Arthur H. Buckley Back Palm with the Open Fingers deep back palm, applications for manipulations follow
 		1946 Card Control 127
Arthur H. Buckley The Bent Fingers, Back Palm and Recovery recovery from deep back palm ending in fan production
 		1946 Card Control 128
Arthur H. Buckley The Slide Up Vanish fake transfer using back palm
 		1946 Card Control 134
Arthur H. Buckley A Card is Vanished and Reappears at the very Tips of the first and second Fingers basic back palming with fingertip production
 		1946 Card Control 136
Arthur H. Buckley The Change Over - A very pretty and deceptive Piece of Card Manipulation hand washing with back and front palming
 		1946 Card Control 143
Arthur H. Buckley The Steal recover from deep back palm
 		1946 Card Control 146
Arthur H. Buckley Split Fans "Back Palming a Pack of Fifty-Two Cards and Reproducing them in a Series of Fans"
 		1946 Card Control 147
Bill Simon Back Palm Steal cards are stolen into back palm with fan cover
 		1949 Controlled Miracles 15
Vern Schoneck Sic Transit selected cards visibly appear in beer glass
 		1950 The Phoenix 201 — 250 (Issue 205) 818
Laurie Ireland Peek a Boo hand inside plastic bag, selection appears
 		1951 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1951) 35
Lewis Ganson The "Back and Front" Palm
  • (A) Cover for the Pivot
  • (B) Acquitments
  • (C) Stealing Extra Stocks of Cards
  • (D) Hiding the Corners of the Cards
 		1954 Routined Manipulation Finale 227
Cliff Green Visual Change
1959 Inner Secrets of Card Magic 55
Cliff Green Finale for the Flight of the Blues signed card vanishes from packed and is produced from air (back palm)
 		1961 Professional Card Magic 111
Cliff Green Back Palm Steal as packet is tossed on table
 		1961 Professional Card Magic 156
Frank Garcia Eclipse Card Production slow motion production from back palm
 		1972 Million Dollar Card Secrets 119
Flip Hallema Fl!pcard production and printing of business card
 		1972 Fl!p Qu!k Tr!k Str!p 8
William Larsen, T. Page Wright Trick #5 two cards change, Two Card Monte sequence with impromptu double backer
Also published here
  • in "Random Conceptions with Cards" (ca. 1930)
 Sep. 1974 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 11) 790
Back and Front Palm
1976 The Big Book of Magic 57
Patrick Page Before an Audience how to use the back and front palm, without flashing
 		1976 The Big Book of Magic 60
Patrick Page Keeping a Straight Arm tips on the back palm and production of one card
 		1976 The Big Book of Magic 62
The Standard Method of producing card from the back palm
 		1976 The Big Book of Magic 64
Cardini The Cardini Method of producing card from the back palm
 		1976 The Big Book of Magic 65
Producing Fans
1976 The Big Book of Magic 66
The Split Fan Production
1976 The Big Book of Magic 67
Patrick Page Reloading Cards into the Back Palm Position two methods
 		1976 The Big Book of Magic 70
Bill Tarr Palming different positions
  • Classic Palm
  • Pinkie Palm
  • Back Palm
 		1976 Now you see it, now you don't! 22
Back and Front Palm pivot
 		1976 Now you see it, now you don't! 88
Bob Ostin The Serendipity Card Change card is vanished and when produced it is diminished, brief
 		1976 ca. Sleightly Surprising 4
Bill Tarr Modified Back-and-Front Palm pivot, fingers opened wide
 		1978 The second now you see it, now you don't! 100
Stephen Tucker The inner limits Producing selection from behind a card/box using backpalming (pretty standard techniques)
 		1984 The Card-Mad-gic of Stephen Tucker 19
Barry Stevenson Split Waterfall stealing cards into back palm during waterfall flourish
 		1985 Best of Friends — Volume II 228
Frederick Braue FB Fan Card-Steal fan in right hand, some cards are stolen in back palm (1936)
 		1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 1) 11
Backhand Color Change card stolen in right hand backpalm which then holds deck, left hand steals backpalmed card for color change
 		1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 1) 24
Karl Fulves Backup card appears at right angles between two sandwich cards
Related to 1987 Secret Session — Part One 7
Karl Fulves Back Palming from Deck with further uses on p. 10, transfer to right-hand palm
 		1987 Secret Session — Part One 8
Masatoshi Furota Spinning Card Shots cards spin off stack in back palm
 		1988 The Scents of Sophistication 42
Barry Stevenson Card Production Spin from back palm
 		Dec. 1991 Apocalypse (Vol. 14 No. 12) 2015
Edward Marlo コンビんシングカードコントロール (Convincing Card Control) Interesting variation, card is placed into back palm
 		1993 Larry Jennings's Card Technique 167
Sid Fleischman False Transfer and Vanish with back palm
 		1993 The Charlatan's Handbook 97
Dan Tong Stealth Whirley-Bird Card one half is spread randomly into a mess on the table, the other half is fanned, the spectator select a card, put back in fan, it travels to tables cards
Inspired by 1994 Wonderful Routines of Magic — The Second Addendum 155
David Stone Cards into 4 coins! one card transforms into four coins
 		2001 CocOOn 10
Bob Ostin The Serendipity Card Change backpalm gag for magicians, card shrinks on back of hand
Also published here
  • "The Serendipity Card Change" in "Abracadabra" Nr. 1564. January, 1976.
 2005 Bob Ostin — A Lifetime of Magical Inventions 80
Dani DaOrtiz Gag - Strongest Magician card visibly changes into torn quarters
 		2008 Card Cemetery 36
Karl Fulves Cardeeni card appears between hand of spectator and performer
Related to 2009 Prolix (Issue 6) 412
Patrick Lehnen Spock-Palm vulcan salute with back palmed card
 		2013 Lecture Notes 44
Doug Edwards The Fingertip Card Production variation of back palm production
 		2013 Nukes 11
Tom Gagnon Cancelled Deck Card Stab whole deck has whole through middle, sprung into air, selection caught with finger through hole
Variations 2013 Too Hot for the Devil 124
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
 		2014 Placebo 45
Kent Cummins Kent's Back Palm Change Card vanishes and reappears as a different card
Related to 2015 The Saturday Morning Session 25
Ryan Plunkett Subtlety: A Flash of the Palm showing palm empty during card through handkerchief routine
 		2020 Distilled 164
John Carney Back Palm Backstory
2020 Sleights & Insights 120
Basic Back Palm
2020 Sleights & Insights 123
Jonathan Friedman Dedlof folded card becomes pristine without wrinkles again
 		Jan. 2021 Genii (Vol. 84 No. 1) 73
Joshua Lamb Knuckle Palm Vanish card vanishes one-handed when thrown up, deep back palm with card
 		Feb. 2022 Genii (Vol. 85 No. 2) 68
Ollie Mealing Back to the Past Control card apparently put on back of packet, back palm
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Oct. 2011
 2022 Talk About Tricks (Issue 2) 1069