Back Palm

107 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."
Also published here
 1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
344
Lin Searles Back Palming a Complete Deck deck vanish via back palm, with secret ditch of three-quarters in the side pocket during manipulation sequence of single card
 		1938
The Card Expert
24
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
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2
157
Back Palm
1942
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2
158
To Produce Card single card from back palm
 		1942
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2
160
To Produce Cards in a Fan from back palm
 		1942
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2
161
Paul Fox Simplified Back and Front Hand Palm
1942
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2
161
Paul Fox Back Hand Color Change using back palm
 		1942
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
Related to
 Mar. 1943
The Phoenix (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 (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 (Vol. 1 No. 7)
31
A Hat and a Card card penetrates hat
 		Dec. 1943
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 1 No. 7)
31
Impromptu Rising Card
Dec. 1943
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 1 No. 7)
32
A Surprise Handshake cards are produced after handshake with spectator
 		Dec. 1943
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 1 No. 7)
32
Jean Hugard Hey! Presto! selection appears in a glass held by performer
Variations
 Jan. 1944
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 1 No. 8)
35
Jean Hugard Back Palm Change Using a Handkerchief
Jan. 1944
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 1 No. 8)
35
Phil J. Flad, Jr. A Diminishing Card one card shrinks, back palm handling
 		Aug. 1944
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 2 No. 3)
64
Clyde Cairy Metamorphoses card rubbed to thigh changes several times, back palm
 		Oct. 1944
Hugard's Magic Monthly (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 (Vol. 2 No. 7)
91
A Book and a Card card is put in book and rises from there, using back palm
 		1945
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
Edward Victor Card Switch tearing corner off double and back palming one of the cards
Related to
 1946
Further Magic of the Hands
22
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
 		June 1950
The Phoenix (Issue 205)
818
Laurie Ireland Peek a Boo hand inside plastic bag, selection appears
 		1951
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1951)
35
Tyro The Boomerang Card idea for the Boomerang Card, imaginary card produced
 		Feb. 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 8 No. 9)
759
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
Edward G. Brown Say Stop
  • (a) riffle force with break
  • (b) riffle force with top card slip
  • (c) riffle force with bottom card slip
  • (d) riffle force with short or thick card
  • (e) second deal force
  • (f) palmed card added to dealt packet
  • (g) side stealing bottom card to top after dealing until stopped
  • (h) secret turnover of packet with two reversed cards (Edward G. Brown)
  • (i) reference to overhand shuffle stop force by Ralph W. Hull
  • (j) using "Card at Number" as stop force
  • (k) top change for stop force
  • (l) stop force from Roterberg
  • (m) "A Means to an End" by Douglas Dexter, cards moved from hat to hat until stopped, back palm
 		1973
The Card Magic of Edward G. Brown
188
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 No. 11)
790
Charles T. Jordan Like Seeks Like Ace assembly with four hats, using back palm
Also published here
 1975
Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks
87
Tony Cachadiña, Jean Hugard Recordando las Jornadas card appears in glass held by performer, then changes into second selection
Inspired by
 Mar. 1975
Circular de la Escuela Mágica de Madrid (Vol. 1 No. 3)
8
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
Back Palm Vanish
Oct. 1996
MAGIC (Vol. 6 No. 2)
84
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
Tobias Heinemann The Tai-Chi Move single card production
 		2005
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 67 No. 5)
7
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
Ollie Mealing Back to the Past Control card apparently put on back of packet, back palm
Also published here
 Oct. 2011
MAGIC (Vol. 21 No. 2)
73
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
Elliott Terral 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
 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)
1069
Back Palm Production card brought to back palm behind leg
 		2022
Studies in Deception
92
Stop with the Back Palm back palm application to stop trick, cards transferred from one hat to another one by one
 		2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue May 19)
151
Joshua Jay Two for One one card put behind back, one-handed cut, one card produced, a second selection is produced with the other hand from the air
 		2024
Particle System
143
Peter Marvey The Story of an Invention genesis of the spread finger production and some illusions
  • Believe in Your Dreams
  • Invented Illusion - Inspiration for the New
 		2025
The Marvey Move
16
Peter Marvey The Marvey Move back palm with open fingers
  • The Playing Cards
  • Basics
  • Marvey Move - The First Position
  • Marvey Move with Single Card Appearances
  • Marvey Move without Thumb
  • Marvey Move with Spread Fingers
  • Marvey Move with Spread Fingers - Card Catch Packet
  • Marvey Move with Spread Fingers - Single Card Catch
 		2025
The Marvey Move
32