Diminishing Cards

42 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Diminishing Cards
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Unknown The Diminishing and Dissolving Cards two versions
 		1889 Tricks with Cards 148
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
Unknown Mechanical Diminishing Cards described in addition to sleight-of-hand method
 		1890 More Magic 64
L'Homme Masqué, Carl Willmann Das Verkleinerungs-Kartenspiel gaff set
 		Dec. 1895 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 1 No. 12) 184
L'Homme Masqué Die Karten als Liliputaner No. 8
 		1895 Der Kartenkünstler 96
Unknown Verkleinerungskarte single card shrinks and vanishes
Related to 1896 Der moderne Kartenkünstler 139
Unknown Das Verkleinerungs-Kartenspiel
May 1896 Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 1 No. 9) 131
Friedrich W. Conradi-Horster Das Verkleinerungsspiel three methods, second one by Conradi
 		1896 Der moderne Kartenkünstler 153
Friedrich W. Conradi-Horster Das Verkleinerungsspiel "Original-Ausführung von F. W. Conradi"
 		June 1896 Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 1 No. 10) 145
Carl Braun Diminishing Cards
June 1896 Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 1 No. 10) 148
Carl Willmann Briefkasten answering letters, on diminishing card effect, anonymous letteres
 		Feb. 1896 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 2 No. 2) 32
Hugo Kramer Das Verkleinerungs-Kartenspiel
Apr. 1896 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 2 No. 4) 55
Unknown The Diminishing Card gaffed
Related to 1897 New Era Card Tricks 225
Unknown The Diminishing Cards gaffed, four methods
 		1897 New Era Card Tricks 270
Carl Willmann Die Vergrößerung und Verkleinerung eines Kartenspieles ungaffed à la Robert-Houdin
 		Feb. 1898 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 4 No. 2) 19
Charles Bertram The Diminishing Cards gaffed set
 		1902 The Modern Conjurer 92
Charles Bertram The Diminishing Cards
1904 Modern Card Manipulation 66
Unknown The Expanding and Diminishing Cards in several stages, vanish finale
 		1935 Card Manipulations (Issue 4) 118
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin Diminishing Cards fans
 		1938 Greater Magic 12
Audley Walsh The Assorted Cards elaborate diminishing cards routine
 		1940 The Jinx 51-100 (Issue 90) 563
Unknown The Diminishing Cards - Sleight of Hand Method
1941 More Card Manipulations (Issue 4) 48
Charlie Miller The Diminishing Cards - Mechanical Method
1941 More Card Manipulations (Issue 4) 52
Paul LePaul Diminishing Card Finesse with deck vanish finale
 		1941 More Card Manipulations (Issue 4) 51
Phil J. Flad, Jr. A Diminishing Card one card shrinks, back palm handling
 		Aug. 1944 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 2 No. 3) 64
Billy McComb Assorted Gaglets of the William Brand gags with, thimbles, a mouse trap, a spring snake, with ropes, hair, light bulbs, coffee beans, diminishing cards, cracking a spectator's arm, dead rat
Variations 1947 The First Book of William 37
Unknown Enlarging and Diminishing Cards classic fan technique
Related to 1948 The Royal Road to Card Magic 276
Lewis Ganson Diminishing and Expanding Cards in stages
Inspired by
  • Ganson's routine in "Expert Manipulation of Playing Cards"
 1956 Unconventional Magic 41
Bob Ostin Diminishing Cards - Vanish for Last Set
1968 Fingertip Fantasies 71
Edward G. Brown The Diminishing Cards
1973 The Card Magic of Edward G. Brown 99
Bob Ostin The Serendipity Card Change card is vanished and when produced it is diminished, brief
 		1976 ca. Sleightly Surprising 4
Karrell Fox The Di-Minish Finish addition for ungaffed version
 		1979 Another Book 105
Steve Dusheck Diminishing Deck
1980 ca. Lecture Notes 16
"Magic" Christian Stelzel Diminishing Cards cards are changed into bill at the end
 		1983 Lecture Magic 14
Steve Beam The Shrink humorous patter for diminishing cards
Inspired byRelated to 1984 The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 4) 63
Edward Victor Diminishing Card Trick with confetti finale
 		1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 1) 21
Ben Harris Frink instant shrinking fan, ungaffed
 		1985 Out Of His Mind! 126
Steve Beam, Phillip Young The Shrink II patter and routine, gaffed
Related to 1986 The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 15) 253
Curtis Kam Shrink a Card diminishing cards in stages, miniature card removed from fan which is selection, deck grows again
 		1996 Professional Close-up of Curtis Kam 59
Tommy Wonder The Snail's Progress static fan gets smaller visually and disappears
 		1996 The Books of Wonder — Volume 2 154
Dondrake Handling BlackArt Cards
  • Vanishing Card
  • Vanishing Jumbo Card
  • Diminishing Card
 		1998 Black Art Breakthroughs 9
Al Baker Diminishing Cards elaborate gaffs
Related to 2003 The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Instructions) 551
Wolfgang Moser Al Baker's Diminishing Cards using the "trouser-leg-servante" to dich the packets
Related to 2011 Kreationen 32