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Cards to Pocket
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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.
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.
Published Versions
- "Traveling Cards" in The Expert at the Card Table, Erdnase 1902
- "Cards Up The Sleeves" in The Art of Magic By T. Nelson Downs
- "The Cards Up the Sleeve" in Tarbell's Course In Magic Volume 4 (1927)
- "Dr. Jacob Daley's Cards Up The Sleeve" in Stars of Magic