General Comments

38 entries in Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / General Comments
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Die Kartenbrücke oder "Die Kunst, sämtliche Karten des Spieles von einer Hand zur anderen spazieren zu lassen"
"Die Kartenschule von Carl Willmann"
 		Dec. 1897
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 3 No. 12)
179
T. Nelson Downs Flourishes and Fancy Sleights with Cards comments and what cards to use
  • The Cards
 		1909
The Art of Magic
17
Ottokar Fischer Anhang Karten-Dressur
on Hofzinser's flourishing routine
 		1910
Kartenkünste
215
Victor Farelli Flourishes
1933
Farelli's Card Magic — Part One
15
Jean Hugard To Flourish or Not to Flourish? short essay and trick, calendar presentation (months, weeks, ...)
 		1939
More Card Manipulations (Issue 2)
30
Edward G. Love Care of the Hands
1946
Card Fantasies
9
Edward G. Love Cards to Use "At all time bridge size cards should be used, especially for making the cuts."
 		1946
Card Fantasies
9
Edward G. Love How to Treat the Cards
1946
Card Fantasies
9
Edward G. Love The Set-Up
1946
Card Fantasies
10
Edward G. Love Practice
1946
Card Fantasies
11
Edward G. Love Cuts
1946
Card Fantasies
32
Edward G. Love A Complete Routine card flourish routine
 		1946
Card Fantasies
48
Bill Simon Manipulation on using flourishes or not
 		1952
Effective Card Magic
16
Lewis Ganson Flourishes
1954
Routined Manipulation Finale
253
Jerry Andrus Kurious Kards on flourishes
 		1973
Kurious Kards
7
Bill Tarr Flourishes
1976
Now you see it, now you don't!
57
Harry Lorayne Editorial rants
 		Sep. 1979
Apocalypse (Vol. 2 No. 9)
252
Stephen Minch In Praise of the Lowly Flourish essay
 		1982
For Your Entertainment Pleasure
5
Dr. George E. Casaubon* Of One-Hand Cuts and Shuffles
  • In Defense of One-Hand Cutting
  • Origins
  • King Charlier
  • Cuts and Numbers
  • Cards and Techniques
Also published here
 1983
Bertram on Sleight of Hand
218
T. Page Wright Chapter 4 - Ornamental Sleights with Cards
1991
Page Wright's Manuscript
135
Vicente Canuto Capitulo 9: Fantasias con las Cartas "Florituras" chapter intro, on flourishes
 		1993
Cartomagia Fundamental
191
Roberto Giobbi Flourishes, Part 1 Introduction
 		1995
Card College — Volume 1
167
Roberto Giobbi Flourishes, Part 2
1996
Card College — Volume 2
393
Michael Close Flourishes essay
 		1996
Workers Number 5
101
Ellis Stanyon Chapter 20: Ornamental Sleights and Flourishes chapter intro
 		1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
296
Karl Fulves* Supplementary Note on flourishes
 		1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
296
Roberto Giobbi Flourishes, Part 3
2000
Card College — Volume 4
1013
Darwin Ortiz Showing or Hiding Skill
2002
Scams & Fantasies with Cards
211
Tony Giorgio To Flourish Or Not To Flourish
Also published here
  • Genii, April 1994
 May 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 5)
49
Msgr. Vincent Foy* Introduction
  • In Defence of One-Hand Cutting
  • Origins
  • King Charlier
  • Cuts and Numbers
  • Cards and Techniques
Also published here
 2011
A Cut Above
16
De'vo vom Schattenreich XCM - The Art of Extreme Card Manipulation on flourishes
 		Jan. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 1)
40
Gerald P. Cestkowski Hot Dogging it with Relish on Flourishes
 		Feb. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 2)
44
Gerald P. Cestkowski Punctuated EquilibriXCM
May 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 5)
54
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Dan and Dave, Established 1984
Oct. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 10)
48
Steve Forte Flourishes on Flourishes, Alexander Popov, Buck Twins
 		2020
Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2
996
Larry Jennings Jennings Talks About Flourishes, and Patter
2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
346
Alexander Hansford Learn Cardistry
2022
Mainspring
61
Roberto Giobbi Curious Card Configurations flourishy configurations like double fan as conversation starters
 		2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue Jan 13)
25