Handle With Care

1964
Written by Robin Robertson
Work of Robin Robertson
46 pages (Stapled), published by Micky Hades
Illustrated with drawings by Michael P. Hades
Language: English
50 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Michael P. Hades Foreword
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Robin Robertson The Final Control card from middle controlled to the bottom, buckle
Inspired by 5
Robin Robertson Shuffle Control two methods to control card with overhand shuffle
  • lift shuffle type, only top cards of packet are stolen
  • one card is stolen and placed on bottom while shuffling
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Robin Robertson Glide Control Ovette Master Move, deck held in glide position
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Robin Robertson Rolling Cut packets are rolled from hand to hand to cut or control cards
  • Basic Rolling Cut
  • Rolling Cut Control
  • Shuffle Variations
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Robin Robertson, Bruce Elliott Return of A. P. card is snapped face-up
Related to 9
Robin Robertson Robin Counts the Cards Biddle steal false counts to hide card(s)
  • For Four Cards
  • For More Than Four Cards
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Robin Robertson A Useful Tip adding palmed card to the deck, springing cards from hand to hand
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Robin Robertson Easy Reverse for Force preparation for Christ Force type
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Robin Robertson Too Much! card travels from red backed deck to blue backed deck, with cardboard in between
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Douglas Hood Charlier Cut Control automatic control, cutting a card
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Robin Robertson Really Too Much! card travels from red backed deck to blue backed deck next to peeked at card
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Robin Robertson Superb card travels from red backed deck to blue backed deck
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Robin Robertson Matched! card is selected and placed between two prediction cards, one matches suit and other value, repeated
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Gerald Kosky, Charles Hudson Kosky Switch Variation
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Robin Robertson Crime Doesn't Pay sandwiched card transforms into other card, detective story
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Robin Robertson Repeated Reverses sandwiched card turns over, card then turns over again in the deck, duplicate
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Robin Robertson Remote Control spectator stops while riffling down the deck
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Robin Robertson Strictly Fantastic cards across and cards penetrate cardboard, variation of Roydon's "Fantastic"
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Robin Robertson Transpo one card in the middle of the deck, one on table
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Robin Robertson Acrobatic Cards card ends up reversed in spread, apparently trick fails
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Robin Robertson Robin's Card Exchange faces of packets are never seen
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Robin Robertson Out of the Cosmos five red cards and five black cards are shuffled, spectator separates the cards by color, using Robin's Card Exchange
Related to 22
Robin Robertson Royal Follow the Leader only one card is switched, rest of four-of-a-kind follow
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Robin Robertson My First Four Ace Trick Aces are distributed in different parts of the deck and end up together in center
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Frederick Braue Braue Addition without credit
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Robin Robertson Robin's Aces Do Follow three Aces are distributed in different parts of the deck, fourth Ace is placed reversed inside, all Aces are found reversed together
Inspired by
  • a routine by Robert McPherson in "The Linking Ring" July 1962.
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Edward Marlo The Master Position control and reverse of several cards
Also published here 24
Robin Robertson Dai Vernon's Travelers - Redone duplicates, for magicians
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Robin Robertson Robin's Reverse combination of Ovette Master Move and Leipzig Spin Cut
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Robin Robertson, Bruce Elliott Highly Visible card production, looks like a precursor of Jerry K. Hartman's Popover Move
Related to 27
Robin Robertson Sympathetic Sorcery mate of selected card turns over in the deck, several methods
  • First Method
  • Second Method
  • Third Method
  • Pscho-Sympathy
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Roy Cottee Slip Force Variation top half is turned over on the deck
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Robin Robertson Anti-Oil-and-Water 4x4 mixing phase, so cards alternate, Biddle Steal methods
  • First Method
  • Second Method
  • Third Method
  • Fourth Method
  • Fifth Method
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Robin Robertson Robin's Anti-Oil-and-Water 4x4 mixing phase, so cards alternate, Biddle Steal method
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Robin Robertson Turn-Over-Anti-Oil-and-Water 4x4 mixing phase, so cards alternate, Biddle Steal method
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Robin Robertson Three Card Prediction deck with blank faces, predictions written on card
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Robin Robertson Technicoloration using cardboard from Roydon's "Fantastic"
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Robin Robertson Easy Symbol Prediction several cards with symbols held on slate using elastics, number is named to select symbol which matches prediction
Inspired by
  • U. F. Grant's "Slate of Mind"
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Bonus Section
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Robin Robertson Foretold board with prediction, wrong card transforms into correct card on board, then all other cards are shown as miniature cards
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Robin Robertson Instant Knot - Plus One Silk silk appears tied to second silk, impromptu and prepared version
  • Instant Knot - Plus One Bouquet
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Robin Robertson Unprepared Silk Tangle three silks are knotted togehter in a star shape, then they are found in a row and eventually they come free
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Robin Robertson Silk Infinity row of three silks, middle one transforms into other silk
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Robin Robertson Visible Liquid Color Change liquid in glass changes, with silk, using a Miracle Glass
  • Bleaching A Silk
  • Visible Liquid Transposition
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Robin Robertson Double Liquid Penetration three glasses covered with tubes are stacked with cardboard in between, Miracle Glasses used
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Robin Robertson Expanding Bill small bill changes to a bill four times as large
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Robin Robertson Mirror Glass - Sans Mirror without mirror, cardboard piece
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Robin Robertson Deceptive Dots white spots appear on black cardboard, moving pip method
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Robin Robertson Martian Mystery moon man and martian story, colored parts appear on cardboard when flipped over
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Data entered by Lorenz Schär, April 2025.