Handling Finesses

44 entries in Cards / Sleights / Handling Finesses
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
S. W. Erdnase Mode of Holding the Hand how to hold the hand for poker playing
Related to 1902 The Expert at the Card Table 104
Unknown Dropping a Card on the Floor flat, so it does not turn over
 		1939 The Magic Annual for 1938 and 1939 19
Unknown The Matchbook Easel method for a nice display stand of a card
 		1940 Expert Card Technique 413
Unknown Displaying the Top Card three handlings
 		1948 The Royal Road to Card Magic 37
Unknown The Master Aim How to drop a card into a hat without the card fluttering away
 		1949 Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards 12
Dai Vernon To show the top card
1959 Inner Secrets of Card Magic 35
Karrell Fox Lost and Found matchbook as card easel, wrong card changes into selection when deck is riffled against it on easel
Related toVariations 1960 Comedy a la Card 9
Larry Jennings, Roy Walton The Jennings-Walton Show showing face of sandwiched card after blockturnover
 		1969 Expert Card Mysteries 55
Jerry K. Hartman Turnover Glide Handling of Glide so that you end with deck face down in left hand
 		1973 Means & Ends 13
Edward Marlo Accidental Face-Up Row subtlety, "oh, these should have been face-down"
 		1974 The Unexpected Card Book 79
Unknown Thickness Concealment Grip
1979 CardMagic 133
Edward Marlo A Ribbon Spread Tip hiding reversed cards under top card in table spread
 		1980 Marlo's Magazine Volume 4 123
Edward Marlo Hiding Perpendicular Card Under Spread
1980 Marlo's Magazine Volume 4 266
Petrick Display Finesse nice way to display the four aces easel like
 		Aug. 1983 Apocalypse Vol. 6-10 (Vol. 6 No. 8) 814
Ross Bertram A Tip on Card Handling
  • Picking Up The Deck
  • Picking Up a Single Card
 		1983 Bertram on Sleight of Hand 250
Ben Harris Card Stand card stand torn from another card
 		1985 Out Of His Mind! 21
Max Malini Malini Shake detail as card is displayed
 		1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 2) 28
Roy Walton Walton Show showing face of sandwiched card after blockturnover
 		1986 The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 19
Larry Jennings, Roy Walton The Jennings-Walton Show
Related to 1986 The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 160
Steve Draun Snap-Back Sleight
Also published here 1987 The Magic of Steve Draun 9
Dai Vernon On the Turn of a Card revealing a chosen card (Leipzig, Rosini)
 		1987 The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 1 1
Karrell Fox Revelation via Matchbook matchbooks as easel
 		Feb. 1988 Apocalypse Vol. 11-15 (Vol. 11 No. 2) 1460
Juan Tamariz Concealing the card in PP by Bending it TPC
 		1989/91 Sonata 37
Alex Elmsley A Bluff Hand-to-hand Transfer while maintaining a break
 		1991 The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 1 92
Roger Klause Having Card Chosen from Fan fan should be vertical
 		1991 Roger Klause: In Concert 163
Max Malini, Howard Schwarzman Malini's Invitation how to have a card selected
 		1992 Card Finesse II 151
Steve Draun Snap-Back Sleight card jumps back on the deck
Related toAlso published here 1993 Secrets Draun from Underground 117
Unknown Matchbook Easel
1993 Card File 179
Joe Rindfleisch A Pretty Ace Display
Oct. 1995 Apocalypse Vol. 16-20 (Vol. 18 No. 10) 2565
Thomas Fraps Dribbled technique for dribbling a deck while maintaining an jog
 		1998 The Book 124
Paul LePaul Flourish a card shows up
Related to 1999 21st Century Card Magic 17
Bob White Handling a Single Card from "Supplement to Notes"
and on the Flash Double
Related toAlso published here 2003 It's a Matter of Style 36
Bob White Handling a Single Card
Also published here 2005 It's a Matter of Style (2005 edition) 15
Roy Walton Walton Show
2006 The Magic of Ascanio — Studies of Card Magic 278
David Malek Dealing Procedure in Gambling Demonstrations how to speed up dealing for a game
Also published here Feb. 2008 Genii (Vol. 71 No. 2) 21
Steven Youell The Camouflage Spread spreading in a less neat way
 		2009 Weapons of Mass Deception 45
Howard Schwarzman Picking Up the Deck picking up deck from smooth surface
 		2010 Secret Agenda (Issue Feb 3) 41
David Malek Dealing Procedure in Gambling Demonstrations how to speed up dealing for a game
Also published here 2010 Secret Agenda (Issue Apr 28) 129
Dai Vernon, Roberto Giobbi Cutting to a Crimp
2010 Secret Agenda (Issue Aug 24) 254
Paul Harris Squiggle Flourish repositioning of four-card packet
 		2016 Magnum Opossum 86
Roy Walton The Walton Show
2016 Notes de Causerie 23
Roberto Giobbi Change Plane doing selection with faces towards spectator
 		2016 Hidden Agenda (Issue Nov 3) 316
Allan Ackerman Packet Displacement choreography for transferring bottom card to top in small packet
 		2019 Card Theater 10
Roy Walton The Walton Show
2019 Grand Livre de Cartomagie 207