False Transfers - Take

113 entries in Coin / Sleights / Vanish / Single Coin Vanishes / False Transfers - Take
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Unknown Pass 3 fake pick-up
 		1876 Modern Magic 150
Unknown Pass 4 (Le Tourniquet) "French Drop"
 		1876 Modern Magic 150
Unknown Pass 5 (La Pincette) French Drop from natural grip
 		1876 Modern Magic 151
Unknown Das Changieren false transfer, multiple methods with different props
 		1899 Jedermann Zauberkünstler! 139
Unknown The French Drop, or Tourniquet
1902 The Modern Conjurer 152
Harry Valcarte Believe It or Not Vanish odd method
 		1933 Expert Manipulative Magic 31
Harry Valcarte Surprise Vanish
1933 Expert Manipulative Magic 32
Jean Hugard The French Drop
1935 Coin Magic 3
Jean Hugard The French Drop - Variation back clipped
 		1935 Coin Magic 4
Jean Hugard The Pinch french drop variation
 		1935 Coin Magic 4
Jean Hugard The Pick Up false take from palm
 		1935 Coin Magic 5
Unknown Dime and Half Dollar Vanish half dollar vanishes
 		1935 Coin Magic 25
Unknown Modification of the French Drop sleeving while doing a french drop
 		1935 Coin Magic 49
John Ramsay Slow Motion Vanish with cigarette
 		1935 Coin Magic 58
Unknown 10 - Le Tourniquet Vanish. (The "French" Vanish)
1941/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 1 73
Harlan Tarbell 11 - Tarbell's Improved "French" Vanish
1941/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 1 74
Paul LePaul 12 - Le Paul's Improved "French" Vanish
1941/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 1 74
Unknown French Drop
1942 Bull's-Eye Coin Tricks 16
Eddie Joseph The Wrist Vanish coin on back of left hand, picked up with right hand, secretly slid into sleeve under watch wrist band
 		1942 Coin and Money Magic 7
Eddie Joseph The Clip Pass coin ends up clipped at back of first and second finger
 		1942 Coin and Money Magic 31
Eddie Joseph A Real Fooler for the Magicians spider grip vanish with thumb back palm
 		1942 Coin and Money Magic 42
Unknown, Walter B. Gibson "Free" French Drop like spider grip vanish, as a fake french drop, as a switch, pretending to be a master sleever
 		1944 The Phoenix 51-100 (Issue 52) 213
Jean Hugard Coin Interlude on the french drop
 		Jan. 1945 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 2 No. 8) 96
Arthur H. Buckley The French Drop (Improved)
1948 Principles and Deceptions 86
Unknown The French Drop (Le Tourniquet Vanish)
1952 Modern Coin Magic 37
Dr. E. M. Roberts The Reverse French Drop
1952 Modern Coin Magic 38
Unknown Bluff Vanish pretending to take a coin from a handful of change
Variations 1952 Modern Coin Magic 59
Tenkai Ishida False Transfer a bit like a retention vanish perhaps, unclear
 		1953 Six Tricks by Tenkai 12
Edward Marlo The Spider Vanish
Variations 1957 Coining Magic 8
Unknown The French Drop with added touches from Dai Vernon, showing the Vernon Touch
 		1957 The Dai Vernon Book of Magic 32
Nate Leipzig False Transfer
1963 Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig 118
Nate Leipzig False Transfer with back palm
 		1963 Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig 119
Unknown Pumpkin Seed Vanish
1967 Deck-Sterity 84
Derek Dingle, Roy Benson The French Drop
1971 Dingle's Deceptions with Cards and Coins 51
Stephen Juhaz Shepard, Emile Clifton Juhaz Vanish handful of coins, one is apparently removed and then vanishes
 		1973 The Compleat Magick — Volume I (Issue 80) 398
Unknown French Drop brief
 		1975 Magia en el Bar 15
Slydini The Fake Take
Variations 1976 The Best of Slydini ...and More 26
Karl Fulves A Coin Swindle marked coin through trouser into pocket, fake pick-up from handful of coin
 		1977 The Magic Book 93
Unknown Pumpkin Seed Vanish
July 1977 Intermagic (Vol. 4 No. 3) 116
Unknown The French Drop with two exercises
 		1978 Introduction to Coin Magic 161
David Harris French Drop Cop
June 1980 Apocalypse Vol. 1-5 (Vol. 3 No. 6) 351
Edward Marlo Marlo's Spider Grip Vanish
1981 CoinMagic 64
David Roth Thumb Palm Spider Grip Vanish
1981 CoinMagic 76
Edward Marlo Spider Vanish
1981 The Lost Pages of the Kabbala 78
John Carney Fingertip Coin Vanish
Also published here 1981 Encore II 38
Unknown Bluff Vanish pretending to take a coin from a handful of change
 		1981 Self-Working Table Magic 10
Edward Marlo Spider Vanish brief
 		1981 Babel (Issue 2) 6
John Ramsay Coin Vanish
1981 Bennett's Fourth Book 43
Meir Yedid The French Drop
1982 Close-Up Hallucinations 16
Unknown Spider Vanish
1983 Spell-Binder (Vol. 3 No. 31) 607
John V. Hope The French Flop coin through glass featuring French Flop vanish sleight
 		Dec. 1984 Apocalypse Vol. 6-10 (Vol. 7 No. 12) 997
Shiv Duggal Loser
1984 Spell-Binder (Vol. 3 No. 36) 706
Unknown Bluff Vanish apparently taking coin from group, credit information
 		1984 At The Table 31
Michael Skinner Skinner's Spidergrip Vanish
Related to 1985 Expert Coin Magic 14
Edward Marlo Spider Vanish
1985 Monedas Personales 71
Ben Harris P.U.P. - Pick Up Palm
Inspired byAlso published here 1985 Out Of His Mind! 13
Larry Jennings French Drop
1986 The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 112
Ben Harris Pick Up Palm (P.U.P.)
Also published here 1986 1986 World Lecture Tour Notes 3
Edward Marlo Spider Grip Vanish here with small egg
 		1987 New Wave Close-Up 28
Bob Kohler Spider Vanish Handling
1989 Without 5
Michael Skinner, Ross Bertram, Edward Marlo Skinner's Spidergrip Vanish
1989 Williamson's Wonders 50
Christoph Borer Coin Vanish
1989 Seminarheft 3
Bob Kohler Spider Vanish Handling
1990 Impossibilia 110
Wesley James WJ Snap Retention Pass Fingertip Retention Pass
 		1990 Stop Fooling Us Lecture Notes 28
Gary Ouellet Coin Drops on the French Drop
 		1990 Close Up Illusions 115
Gary Ouellet The French Canadian Drop
1990 Close Up Illusions 117
Gary Ouellet The Revolver French Drop Variation
 		1990 Close Up Illusions 119
Al Schneider The Schneider Retention Drop French Drop Variation
 		1990 Close Up Illusions 121
Mike Gallo The Michael Gallo Drop French Drop Variation
 		1990 Close Up Illusions 121
Gary Ouellet The Ultimate French Drop French Drop Variation
 		1990 Close Up Illusions 123
John Carney Fingertip Coin Vanish
Also published here 1991 The Magic of Michael Ammar 38
Bob Kohler Bertram Spider Vanish Handling
1991 Smoke and Mirrors 30
Maurice Rooklyn Coin Vanish coin tossed up and caught with other hand apparently, originally with ball
 		Dec. 1991 Intermagic (Vol. 16 No. 4&5) 146
Carl Albright The Spinning French Drop
May 1992 Apocalypse Vol. 11-15 (Vol. 15 No. 5) 2070
Eric Wolf Pivotal Pinch with retention of vision
 		1992 The Minotaur (Vol. 4 No. 2) 8
Steve Dusheck The Dusheck Drop coin balanced on index finger, other hand apparently takes it
 		1992 Dusheck's Coin Magic 64
Unknown Coin Vanish pick up from hand and let it fall again, credited to Jennings with a question mark
 		1994 Fred Kaps' Purse 15
Mike Gallo The Eight-Legged Coin Vanish
Inspired byRelated toVariations 1995 The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 57) 1086
Unknown The Full-Face French Drop
1995 Natural Selections 39
R. Paul Wilson Fingertip Vanish one of two coins taken, or both taken one by one
 		1995 Chaos Theories 18
Jimmy Wilson J. W. Palm without proper credit
 		1995 Aus dem Effeff... 82
Unknown French Drop
1996 The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue The Magic of Paul Harris) 80
Paul LePaul, Ron Aldrich Horizontal French Drop
1997 L.I.N.T. — Pocket Stuff for Close-Up Magicians 116
Tom Stone On the Spider Grip Vanish
1997 The One Coin Opener 11
George McBride Spider Grip Vanish Variation
1998 Five Times Five — Scotland 76
Unknown Slide Back Vanish behind other coins
 		1999 3 Fly III 7
Unknown Pivot Vanish
1999 Arempi II 15
Gary Ouellet The French Canadian Drop
1999 Natural Selections — Volume II 168
Unknown Spider Vanish
2000 Great Britain 2001 11
John Carney, John Ramsay False Transfer
2002 The Book of Secrets 108
Slydini Fake Take
2003 Collexion 9
Paul LePaul French Drop Variant
2005 Tubthumping 12
Slydini Fake Take
2006 Tangled Web 17
Christoph Borer Coin Vanish
2006 Compilation 39
Edward Marlo, Walter B. Gibson Spider Vanish
2007 52 Memories 142
Curtis Kam False Transfers general tips
 		2008 The Pocketbook 33
Dai Vernon, Roberto Giobbi On the French Drop
June 2008 Genii (Vol. 71 No. 6) 17
Fred Robinson Pick-up Vanish coin drops back into other hand
 		2009 The Magic of Fred Robinson 267
Lennart Green Torniquete Lennart french drop variation
 		2009 El Manuscrito (Vol. 2 No. 9) 213
Luis Piedrahita La Falsa Cogida false take among of a coin, among other coins on hand
 		2011 Monedas Y Otras Historias 64
Gary Ouellet French Canadian Drop
2011 More Power to You 100
Roberto Giobbi The Rossini Insight "It's Better to Take Than to Put", on false transfers
 		2012 Confidences 139
Jean Caroly Spider Grip Vanish with a stone
 		2014 Schlaglichter 29
John Ramsay The Ramsay Coin Vanish
2014 Schlaglichter 40
Fred Robinson Pick-up Vanish brief
Related to 2016 Eye Candy 8
Tomoya Horiki Auto Vanish 2 (オート・バニッシュ２) Coin vanish by squeezing it with fingertips
 		2017 Coinlang. 68
Unknown Vertical Thumb Palm Vanish
2017 Coinlang. 59
Walter B. Gibson Spider Grip Vanish
Related to
  • "Misdirection Drop" (Walter Gibson, The Sphinx, Feb. 1919, p. 239)
 2017 The Long Goodbye — Latta on Coins 112
Tomoya Horiki Isolation Vanish Coin held between fingers, seem to "float" and remain isolated as hands move around it (something like contact juggling), then coin vanishes, inspired by Jerry Andrus and Troy Hooser
 		2018 Progress Principle 29
Jeremiah Zuo The Drop Vanish coin held with left forefinger and thumb and apparently taken by right hand
  • The Vanish
  • The Left Hand's Action
  • The Right Hand's Action
  • Other Comments
Variations 2018 Institutes of A Coin Magic Fan 6
Jeremiah Zuo Silent Drop doing the Drop Vanish while secretly holding out another coin
Inspired by 2018 Institutes of A Coin Magic Fan 16
Edward Marlo Spider Vanish
2019 Monedas Personales Y Más 75
Fred Robinson Pick-Up Vanish
2020 Magic for BLM 220