Alton Sharpe

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Al Baker	With Prepared Cards	"Albaka", name of a red card is written on every black card in stacked deck	Related to Albaka (Al Baker, 2003) Variations Mirabile Dictu (Alton Sharpe, 1969) Jack To The Future (Bob Farmer, 1991)	1938	Greater Magic	343	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions
Alton Sharpe	Two Ribbon Cut	using thumb tip and loops		1954	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 6	101	Silk & Handkerchief / Ribbon / Cut & Restored Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip
Alton Sharpe	Foreword			1968	Expert Card Conjuring		Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Alton Sharpe	Part One	"New and Improved Sleights by Edward Marlo" chapter intro about Ed Marlo		1968	Expert Card Conjuring	1	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Alton Sharpe	Part Two	"New and Different Magical Effects by Internationally Known Card Experts" chapter intro		1968	Expert Card Conjuring	47	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Alton Sharpe	Expert Poker Demonstration	23 card set-up		1968	Expert Card Conjuring	60	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / You just get the winning Hand.
Alton Sharpe, James Kater Thompson	Undercover Surprise	deck changes into lemon underneath silk, card is in it, only "Thompson" given without first name	Variations Card in Lemon (Roberto Giobbi, 2016)	1968	Expert Card Conjuring	64	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation - card-object / Other Object Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Fruit
Alton Sharpe	Merely a Coincidence	number arrived at with dice is counted down, heart flush and Twos show up which fits prediction	Related to Jack the Bartender's Deal (1968)	1968	Expert Card Conjuring	72	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / As a Climax Cards / Effect Themes / Dice & Cards
Alton Sharpe	Double Prediction Chest	freely thought of and chosen card predicted, one ahead		1968	Expert Card Conjuring	73	Cards / Principles / One Ahead Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Multiple Card Prediction
Alton Sharpe	Part Three	"An Array of Choice and Select Card Miracles by Edward Marlo" intro about Ed Marlo		1968	Expert Card Conjuring	81	Articles / Biographical Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Alton Sharpe	Shall We Restore It?	Torn and restored newspaper with bag gimmick		1968	Newspaper Magic	139	Newspaper / Torn & Restored
	Jack the Bartender's Deal	card spelled to (Two Spades), Two of Spades found, then the TWO pile are all Twos, SPADE pile is Royal Flush in Spades (first shown to Eddie by unknown bartender)	Related to Merely a Coincidence (Alton Sharpe, 1968) Variations The Two of Clubs (Nick Trost, 2019) Also published here Jack The Bartender's Deal (Stewart James, 1997)	1968	The Artful Dodges of Eddie Fields	18	Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Miscellaneous / Set-up Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Further Than That
Alton Sharpe	Preface			1969	Expert Card Mysteries	5	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Alton Sharpe	Acknowledgement			1969	Expert Card Mysteries	10	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Alton Sharpe	Omega, Sr.	any card divined because of small sticky mirror on back of card		1969	Expert Card Mysteries	30	Cards / Principles / Shiner
Alton Sharpe	Impossible Card Vanish	card vanishes from pay envelope, slit at bottom		1969	Expert Card Mysteries	36	Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Single Card Paper / Envelopes / Miscellaneous
Alton Sharpe, Tom Sellers, Victor Farelli	Turn Me Over	a number of cards turns over distributed throughout deck corresponding with value of selection		1969	Expert Card Mysteries	77	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Miscellaneous
Alton Sharpe	Mirabile Dictu	any named red card is predicted on back of a black card, cards written on all black cards as index	Inspired by With Prepared Cards (Al Baker, 1938)	1969	Expert Card Mysteries	81	Cards / Principles / Card Index Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card
Al Koran, Alton Sharpe	Borrowed You Find It	two methods: sticky card and belly-stripped card		1969	Expert Card Mysteries	93	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Other Work Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stabbing Routines / Magic Thrust & Variations
Alton Sharpe	The Flying Queens	rough-smooth queens		1969	Expert Card Mysteries	94	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Rough and Smooth (not full deck) Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Gaffed
Alton Sharpe, Edward Marlo	Lessinout Stack Variation	for five cards		1969	Expert Card Mysteries	107	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Overhand / Stacking
Alton Sharpe, Billy McComb	Blank Surprise	all cards become blank except selection		1969	Expert Card Mysteries	141	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Printing & "Unprinting" Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Things happen to the whole deck
Alton Sharpe	Jumping Jacks	performer cuts pack into four piles, Jacks on top, then matrix routine with table mat with post card covers		1969	Expert Card Mysteries	145	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator cuts to the Aces Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Magician cuts to the Aces / Tabled
Alton Sharpe, Del Ray	The Great Stabbing Trick		Related to Reinhard Müller's "Dai Vernon Lecture in Germany", 1997, p. 5, for credit information	1969	Expert Card Mysteries	163	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stabbing Routines / with Knife on the table
Alton Sharpe	L'Envoi			1969	Expert Card Mysteries	195	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Jon Racherbaumer (reviewer)	Expert Card Conjuring	by Alton Sharpe		Winter 1969	The Hierophant (Issue 2)	91	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Alton Sharpe	Introduction			1970	Ten on Deck	4	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Alton Sharpe	Preface			1971	Expert Card Chicanery		Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Roger Smith (reviewer)	Expert Card Chicanery	by Alton Sharpe		Mar. 1971	Necromancer (Vol. 1 No. 8)	10	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Gerald R. Blount	Blounty Speaking	on Bob Eads, Pat Hennessy, Gene Nielsen, Martin Lewis, Jay Marshall, Eric Lewis, Alton Sharpe, Kelly Green		Feb. 1971	Talisman (Vol. 1 No. 50)	334	Articles / Columns
Gerald R. Blount	Blounty Speaking	on Alton Sharpe, Gene Nielsen, Crandall, Guy Thompson		Apr. 1971	Talisman (Vol. 2 No. 6)	48	Articles / Columns
Gerald R. Blount	Blounty Speaking	on Mark Wilson's Magic Circus, Bob Orben, Alton Sharpe, Kelly Green		May 1971	Talisman (Vol. 2 No. 9)	72	Articles / Columns
Jeff Busby (reviewer)	Ponsin on Conjuring	by Jean-Nicholas Ponsin (written by Alton Sharpe)		Feb. 1988	Epoptica (Issue 11)	530	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Bob Haskell	Reverse Double Undercut		Related to (Alton Sharpe, Expert Card Conjuring, 1976)	1997	The Card Magic of Nick Trost	320	Cards / Sleights / Cuts / Transfer- & Displacement Cuts
Baltazar Fuentes	Ultimate Pivot Revelation	production of Aces, Kings and three selections	Inspired by Pivot Principle - Pivot Revelation Method #1 (Bruce Cervon, 1976) Also published here Alton Sharpe's magazine "Olla Podrida"	1999	Arempi II	23	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / All at once
John Moehring	A Lifetime of Mysteries	on Alton Sharpe	Related to Not Too Sharpe (Mark Harris, 2004)	May 2004	MAGIC (Vol. 13 No. 9)	44	Articles / Biographical
Jon Racherbaumer	Memorial: Alton Sharpe			Feb. 2005	Genii (Vol. 68 No. 2)	24	Articles / Obituary
Richard Hatch	"Tell Jack Ruby not to send the letter..."	on Alton Sharpe		Feb. 2005	Genii (Vol. 68 No. 2)	25	Articles / Articles Articles / Obituary
	Magic Update	Magi At CES Nathan Burton on E! Conjuring Art Discovery Magic Circle Centenary Stamp Issue Vegas Watch Cairns & Partridge Play Dubai At-Home Queen At The Magic Castle The Big Apple Peter McCahon 1965-2004 - died Alton Sharpe Dies at 83		Feb. 2005	MAGIC (Vol. 14 No. 6)	23	Articles / Columns
Alton Sharpe	Late-Night Encounter	about Ed Marlo	Also published here Ollapodrida, Dec. 1991	2010	Prolix (Issue 7)	426	Articles / Anecdotes
Roberto Giobbi	Card in Lemon	deck changes into lemon underneath handkerchief, selection inside lemon	Inspired by Undercover Surprise (Alton Sharpe, James Kater Thompson, 1968) Also published here Die Karte in der Zitrone (Roberto Giobbi, 2003)	2016	Standup Card Magic	211	Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation - card-object / Other Object Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Fruit
John Moehring	Was Alan Actually Alton?	on Alan Keith and Alton Sharpe		Sep. 2016	MAGIC (Vol. 25 No. 301 The Final Issue)	92	Articles / Biographical Articles / Magic History

42 entries for Alton Sharpe