Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Pack being divided into Two Portions, placed in the keeping of two different Persons, to make Three Cards Pass invisible from the One to the Other	beginning with sealed deck		1876	Modern Magic	86	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) Across / Classic & Variations
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Wrapping Coin in Handkerchief	fake wrapping, two methods	Related to Swindle Switch (Karl Fulves, 1989) Also published here Coin Through Handkerchief (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, 1945)	1876	Modern Magic	166	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Silk Coin / Sleights / Vanish / Single Coin Vanishes / With Props
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin,	The Watch Box	for vanishing a watch	Related to The Flight of Time (Professor Hoffmann, 1903)	1876	Modern Magic	219	Watch / Vanish
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin,	The Shower of Sweets	sweets appear on plate from loading bag with handkerchief, another loading bag from Robert-Houdin	Related to The Shower of Sweets (Improved Method) (1903)	1876	Modern Magic	251	Plate Silk & Handkerchief / Utilities & Sleights Food / Candy
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Rose in the Glass Vase	empty glass vase on pedestal, rose appears inside, mechanical		1876	Modern Magic	400	Flower / Real / Appearance & Production
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin,	The Decanter and the Crystal Balls	clear glass balls produced and then "molded" into single ball which then changes color, two methods	Related to The Crystal Balls (Improved Method) (Professor Hoffmann, 1911)	1876	Modern Magic	426	Ball / "Small" Ball / Routines Ball / Billiard Ball / Routines / Routines
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Vanishing Pocket Handkerchief, found in a Candle	borrowed handkerchief burned, then inside candle		1876	Modern Magic	470	Silk & Handkerchief / Destroyed & Restored Candle / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Traveling / Candle
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Light and Heavy Chest	electro-magnetism		1876	Modern Magic	482	Apparatus / Miscellaneous
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Crystal Cash-Box	coins appear in box that hangs on strings, electrical		1876	Modern Magic	487	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Miscellaneous
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Aerial Suspension		Related to Robert Houdin's Levitation (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, 1965)	1876	Modern Magic	495	Illusions / Animation / Defying Gravity
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	To Palm the Bottom Card of the Pack			1889	Tricks with Cards	17	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Left Hand / Bottom
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Cards Judged by Weight, and the Multiplication of Cards	two routines (second one by Robert-Houdin)		1889	Tricks with Cards	122	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Number of Cards increases, diminishes Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Packet thickness Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) Across / Classic & Variations
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Protean Pack	three selections, "General Pack"		1889	Tricks with Cards	140	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Divided Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / General Card Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Things happen to the whole deck
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Cards passing up the Sleeve			1889	Tricks with Cards	144	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Up the Sleeve type
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Cards passing up the Sleeve, and the Diminishing and Increasing Cards	"dexterous card-palming supplemented by unflinching audacity", diminishing cards as fake explanation		1890	More Magic	57	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Up the Sleeve type Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Two Hats	coins travel at once from one hat to another, acoustical illusion, brief outline	Related to Secrets of Conjuring & Magic, p. 124	1890	More Magic	147	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Miscellaneous
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Cannon-Ball Globe	giant ball vase with longer routine		1890	More Magic	295	Ball / Ball & Vase Clothing / Hat
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Eduard W. Lufa	Das Kind in der Zeichenmappe	child from folder		Dec. 1900	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 6 No. 12)	190	Illusions / Appearance & Production / Person
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Production of the Wand	From the Sleeve (Robert-Houdin) From the Purse	Related to "The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic"	1903	Later Magic	102	Wand & Stick / Appearance & Production
Professor Hoffmann	The Flight of Time	routine with watch, sight gags, watch vanishes from box, apparently shot with pistol into spectator, wand pushed into spectator	Related to The Watch Box (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, , 1876)	1903	Later Magic	183	Wand & Stick / Penetration of Other Objects Watch / Traveling Weapon / Gun
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Joseph Michael Hartz	The Mystic Glove and Rings	four finger rings borrowed, placed in pistol, glove put over glass tube, pistol shot, glove blows up with ring on each finger The Old Method The Hartz Method	Also published here The Mystic Glove and Rings (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Joseph Michael Hartz, 1911)	1903	Later Magic	198	Ring / Finger Rings / Traveling / Miscellaneous Gloves / Miscellaneous
	The Shower of Sweets (Improved Method)	shower of bonbons falls from handkerchief	Related to The Shower of Sweets (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, , 1876)	1903	Later Magic	344	Silk & Handkerchief / Utilities & Sleights Food / Candy
Professor Hoffmann	The Crystal Balls (Improved Method)	clear glass balls produced and then "molded" into single ball which then changes color, detailed routine	Related to The Decanter and the Crystal Balls (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, , 1876) Hartz Finale for Crystal Balls (Joseph Michael Hartz, 1911) Also published here The Crystal Balls (Improved Method) (Professor Hoffmann, 1911)	1911	Later Magic	602	Ball / "Small" Ball / Routines Ball / Billiard Ball / Routines / Routines
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Joseph Michael Hartz	The Mystic Glove and Rings	four finger rings borrowed, placed in pistol, glove put over glass tube, pistol shot, glove blows up with ring on each finger The Old Method The Hartz Method	Also published here The Mystic Glove and Rings (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Joseph Michael Hartz, 1903)	1911	Magical Titbits	215	Ring / Finger Rings / Traveling / Miscellaneous Gloves / Miscellaneous
Al Baker	"Say When!"	two cards, partial forcing deck	Related to Now! (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, 1944) Mentalex? (Theodore Annemann, 1952) Also published here "Say When!" (Al Baker, 2003)	1933	Al Baker's Book	32	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Jean Hugard	The Peek or Glimpse			1936	Card Manipulations (Issue 5)	135	Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Center at break/jog/...
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Arthur Leroy	Self Control	any card is removed and put in pocket where it sticks out, any card named, card from pocket is named card	Related to The Three of Clubs (Ralph W. Hull, 1938)	1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	27	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card
Ralph W. Read, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Original "Stop" Trick	three selection, three-bank forcing deck		1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	320	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Diminishing Cards	fans		1938	Greater Magic	12	Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Fans with tricky purpose Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	With Unprepared Cards, Without Forcing	card laid face down on table proves to be card mentally selected		1938	Greater Magic	325	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Tabled Card is Named Card
Ralph W. Hull	The Three of Clubs	card on table turns out to be any card named, different switches	Related to A Mental Card Mystery (Ralph W. Hull, 1932) Self Control (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Arthur Leroy, 1937) Another Visit (Edward Marlo, 1970) Yr Card Yr Wallet (Karl Fulves, 1983) The Three Of Clubs (Sam H. Sharpe, 2002) Variations Clubble (Thomas Alan Waters, 1982) A.M. (2017) Hull-Bullish (Jon Racherbaumer, 2021)	1938	Greater Magic	327	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Tabled Card is Named Card
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	a. Effect	thought-of card by one spectator is chosen by second spectator		1938	Greater Magic	330	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Miscellaneous
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Protean Pack of Cards	full deck changes to duplicates of three selections, deck of divided cards, with deck switch		1938	Greater Magic	490	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / General Card Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Things happen to the whole deck
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Thirty Cards	brief, described by Hugard		1940	More Card Manipulations (Issue 3)	32	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) Across / Classic & Variations
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Primapara	with cards		Nov. 1943	The Phoenix (Issue 47)	194	Book / Book Test / Routines
	Whose?	same as Expansion of Texture - Expanded!	Related to The Expansion of Texture - Expanded! (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, L'Homme Masqué, Dai Vernon, 1952)	Sep. 1944	The Phoenix (Issue 68)	278	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Expansion of Texture
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Now!	attributed to Robert-Houdin, three cards selected, three times stop by spectator to find their cards	Related to "Say When!" (Al Baker, 1933) Mentalex? (Theodore Annemann, 1952)	Jan. 1944	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 1 No. 8)	34	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Cards / Sleights / Force / Forcing from a Forcing Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Long Card
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Maxims	quotes		Nov. 1945	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 3 No. 6)	168	Articles / Articles
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Coin Through Handkerchief		Also published here Wrapping Coin in Handkerchief (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, 1876)	1945	Routined Magic	11	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Silk Coin / Sleights / Vanish / Single Coin Vanishes / With Props
Paul Fleming (reviewer)	Memoirs of Robert-Houdin	by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin New Edition		1946	The Paul Fleming Book Reviews — Volume II	45	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Robert-Houdin		Also published here The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic	1946	Rings In Your Fingers	99	Ring / Linking Rings / Routines
	Copper Penetration	two coins, one is wrapped into a handkerchief and hold by the spectator, the other coin penetrates the silk	Related to Expansion of Texture (L'Homme Masqué, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Dai Vernon, 1957) Expansion of Texture (Al Schneider, Pete Biro, 2011) Variations Copper Penetration (Michael Rubinstein, 2020)	1952	Modern Coin Magic	178	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Expansion of Texture
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, L'Homme Masqué, Dai Vernon	The Expansion of Texture - Expanded!	two coins, one is wrapped into a handkerchief and hold by the spectator, the other coin penetrates the silk	Related to Whose? (1944) El Reencuentro (Juan Tamariz, 1969)	1952	Modern Coin Magic	181	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Expansion of Texture
Theodore Annemann	Mentalex?	three selected cards are found by spectators stopping at the right card	Related to "Say When!" (Al Baker, 1933) Now! (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, 1944)	1952	Annemann's Buried Treasures	4	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick
L'Homme Masqué, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Dai Vernon	Expansion of Texture		Related to Speaking Volumes (John Carney, 2002) Speaking Volumes (David Regal, Andy Nyman, 2003)	1957	The Dai Vernon Book of Magic	108	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Expansion of Texture
Jay Marshall, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Letter of Robert-Houdin to Shelton MacKenzie	translation from french, on Robert-Houdin's biography		Jan. 1957	The New Phoenix (Issue 340)	173	Articles / Letters
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Translation of Letter by Robert-Houdin to Abbe			1957	The New Phoenix (Issue 347)	212	Articles / Letters
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Robert Houdin's Levitation	levitation of a boy, two poles, with variation	Related to The Aerial Suspension (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, 1876)	1965	Magician's Magic	82	Illusions / Animation / Defying Gravity
Juan Tamariz	El Reencuentro	separated both coins meet again in the handkerchief	Related to The Expansion of Texture - Expanded! (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, L'Homme Masqué, Dai Vernon, 1952) Lecciones de Ilusionismo, Antonio Florensa, p.58 and next	1969	Monedas, monedas... (y monedas)	58	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Expansion of Texture
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Two Hats	two coins travel from one hat to another, with sound illusion when coins are dropped in one hat but apparently in the other		Aug. 1972	The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 7 No. 10)	555	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Miscellaneous
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Robert Howdin Version Of Chosen Card Picked From Pocket At Number Called For	No. 394, Howdin = Houdin?	Related to "Clairvoyance by Touch" (Robert-Houdin, The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic)	1972	Jacob Daley's Notebooks	108	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers) Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Sense of Touch / Card Identity
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Reversible Drawer Box			1976	Classic Magic with Apparatus	112	Apparatus / Drawer Box
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin,	The Pillar of the Magi	apparatus, figure on stand catches selections flying out of a box, different methods		1978/76	More Classic Magic with Apparatus	74	Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Force and unusual Discovery Cards / Props & Apparatus / Miscellaneous
Jeff Busby (reviewer)	Card Sharpers. Their Tricks Exposed	by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin		June 1983	Epoptica (Issue 4)	214	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Frech Drop Clink Pass			July 1984	Apocalypse (Vol. 7 No. 7)	942	Coin / Sleights / Vanish / Multiple Coin Vanishes / Bare Handed
Eric F. Impey	In Reverse	center reversal during Charlier Cut	Related to One-Hand Cut Production (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Eric F. Impey, Karl Fulves, 1991) Also published here In Reverse (Eric F. Impey, 1931)	1987	Secret Session — Part Two	47	Cards / Sleights / Reverses / More for One Card or a few Cards / Active Cards / Sleights / Cuts / Real Cuts / One Handed Cuts
Karl Fulves	Swindle Switch	chapter intro	Related to Wrapping Coin in Handkerchief (Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, 1876)	1989	Self-Working Coin Magic	65	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Will Ayling, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Moving Pip Card	moving pip in conjunction with rising cards, anecdote of De Kolta's daughter manufacturing multi pip cards		1991	Knowing The Rising Cards	26	Cards / Principles / Thread Work Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Moving Pips Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Thread Articles / Anecdotes Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multi Pip Card
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Eric F. Impey, Karl Fulves	One-Hand Cut Production	card dragged out with thumb	Related to In Reverse (Eric F. Impey, 1987)	1991	28 Card Tricks	57	Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / One-Handed Cards / Sleights / Cuts / Real Cuts / One Handed Cuts
Stephen Minch (reviewer)	Les Secrets de la Prestidigitation et de la Magie (1868)	by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin		1991	From Witchcraft to Card Tricks	17	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Roberto Giobbi	The Top Change			1995	Card College — Volume 1	233	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Top Change
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	The Protean Pack	No. 45, three selections, "General Pack"		1999	Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks	183	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Divided Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / General Card Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Things happen to the whole deck
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin,	The Ribbon Spread Force	bold		2000	Card College — Volume 4	793	Cards / Sleights / Step Finesses Cards / Sleights / Force / Table Spread Force
John Carney	Legends: Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin			2002	The Book of Secrets	178	Articles / Biographical Articles / Articles
John Carney	Speaking Volumes		Related to Expansion of Texture (L'Homme Masqué, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Dai Vernon, 1957)	June 2002	Genii (Vol. 65 No. 6)	23	Articles / Columns
Jamy Ian Swiss (reviewer)	The Magic of Robert-Houdin; an Artist's Life	by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (written by Christian Fechner)		Mar. 2003	Genii (Vol. 66 No. 3)	79	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
David Regal, Andy Nyman	Speaking Volumes		Related to Expansion of Texture (L'Homme Masqué, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Dai Vernon, 1957)	Apr. 2003	Genii (Vol. 66 No. 4)	67	Articles / Columns
Jamy Ian Swiss (reviewer)	The Essential Robert-Houdin	by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (written by Todd Karr)		Jan. 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 1)	96	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Las metamorfosis	brief description of Robert-Houdin's General Card		2008	El Manuscrito (Vol. 1 No. 3)	17	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / General Card
Roberto Giobbi, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Lyophilized Money	burnt white paper transforms into bill, then into higher denomination bill, inspired by Robert-Houdin's "La pièce fusible"		2010	Secret Agenda (Issue Aug 21)	250	Light & Fire / Flash Paper & Material Bill / Transformation / Bill or Paper / Single / In the Hands
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Roberto Giobbi	Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin's Birthday		Related to "Les métamorphoses" (Robert-Houdin, Comment on devient sorcier)	2016	Hidden Agenda (Issue Dec 7)	350	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / General Card
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Robert-Houdin's Method	gesturing with a card in right hand while picking up a break under the top card		2020	Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy	38	Cards / Sleights / Break / Break Finesses Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Get-Readys
Dani DaOrtiz, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin	Chosen Thought	spectator thinks of a card, another spectator deals and stops when he wants and finds card		2021	Freedom of Expression	129	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick Cards / Sleights / Force / Psychological Forces / Psychological Stop Force (Seventh Card Force)

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