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[[Cards to Pocket]] or [[Cards up Sleeve]] is a classic plot in card magic where cards successively vanish from one hand, seemingly pass up the sleeve, to reappear one by one in the opposite pant pocket.
'''Cards to Pocket''' (aka '''Cards up Sleeve''') is a classic plot in card magic where cards successively vanish from one hand, seemingly pass up the sleeve, to reappear one by one in the opposite pant pocket.


Believed to be first published in 1868 by [[Robert-Houdin]] and known in French as ''Cartes à la Manche''.
Believed to be first published in 1868 by [[Robert-Houdin]] and known in French as ''Cartes à la Manche''.
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It was a popular routine with [[Charles Bertram]], [[Dai Vernon]], [[Cliff Green]] and [[Doc Daley]].
It was a popular routine with [[Charles Bertram]], [[Dai Vernon]], [[Cliff Green]] and [[Doc Daley]].


[[Herbert Brooks]], from England, is said to be the one that popularized it in the USA.
[[Herbert Brooks]], from England, is said to be the one that popularized it in the USA. See ad in The Linking Ring, vol. 1, no. 1, January 1923, page 4.


== Published Versions ==
== Published Versions ==
* ''Les Cartes à la manche'' in [[Les Secrets de la prestidigitation et de la magie]], page 233 by Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1868)
* "Traveling Cards" in [[The Expert at the Card Table]], Erdnase (1902)  
* "Traveling Cards" in [[The Expert at the Card Table]], Erdnase (1902)  
* "Cards Up The Sleeves" in [[The Art of Magic]] By T. Nelson Downs (1909)
* "Cards Up The Sleeves" in [[The Art of Magic]] By T. Nelson Downs (1909)
* "The Cards Up the Sleeve" in  [[Tarbell's Course In Magic]], Vol. 4 (1927)
* "The Cards Up the Sleeve" in  [[Tarbell's Course In Magic]], Vol. 4 (1927)
* ''No Palm Aces to Pocket'' in [[Amazing Isn't It?]], page 9 by Ed Marlo (1941)
* "Dr. Jacob Daley's Cards Up The Sleeve" in [[Stars of Magic]] (1950)
* "Dr. Jacob Daley's Cards Up The Sleeve" in [[Stars of Magic]] (1950)


== Travelers ==
Travelers is a version of Cards to Pockets where four selected cards vanish from the deck and end up in four different pockets. Developed by [[Dai Vernon]] and first published by him as ''The Travelers'' in [[Stars of Magic]], Ser. 6, No. 3 (1950).
=== Variations ===
* ''Ambidextrous Travellers'' by [[Larry Jennings]] - Four cards magically travel to four different pockets twice in [[The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings]] written by [[Mike Maxwell]] (1986)
* ''I'd Give My Right Arm to be Ambidextrous'' by [[Marc DeSouza]], variation of Larry Jennings' Ambidextrous Travellers first published in [[DeSouza's DeCeptions]] ([[Camirand Academy of Magic]], 2001).


== Variations==
* [[Travelers]], where four selected cards vanish from the deck and end up in four different pockets. 


[[Category:Card Plots]]
[[Category:Card Plots]]

Latest revision as of 19:09, 31 December 2012

Cards to Pocket (aka Cards up Sleeve) is a classic plot in card magic where cards successively vanish from one hand, seemingly pass up the sleeve, to reappear one by one in the opposite pant pocket.

Believed to be first published in 1868 by Robert-Houdin and known in French as Cartes à la Manche.

It was a popular routine with Charles Bertram, Dai Vernon, Cliff Green and Doc Daley.

Herbert Brooks, from England, is said to be the one that popularized it in the USA. See ad in The Linking Ring, vol. 1, no. 1, January 1923, page 4.

Published Versions


Variations

  • Travelers, where four selected cards vanish from the deck and end up in four different pockets.
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