All Backs

All Backs is a classic card routine popularized by Dai Vernon in which the cards start appearing to have backs on both sides.

History

Edward Marlo, in The Cardician (1953), states "the effect of causing a deck of cards to change to all double-backs then later to all double-face cards was first brought to the magic-world's attention by R. W. Hull, when he sold his NRA deck. Later, in the booklet, More Eye Openers (printed in 1933), he introduced his 'Magic Picture Book Deck', which was an impromptu version of the NRA deck.

Later, in third edition of Expert Card Technique, Dai Vernon introduced his impromptu all-back routine called The All Backs."

Variations

• Expert Card Technique (third edition) "A Lesson in Card Handling" by Dai Vernon
• Ackerman All Backs routine from Don England's T.K.O.'s.
• "New Back Off" from Cardshark
• Elmsley's version in ROUTINED MANIPULATION (Ganson).
• Back Ordered from Focus by Goldstien
• Darwin Ortiz´s Back off in "At card Table"
• Darwin Ortiz's new Back off in Scams and Fantasies
• "The Inside-Out Deck" in CardWorks
• Larry Jennings All Backs routine in Lake Tahoe Card Magic.
• Bruce Cervon version in Ultra-Cervon
• All Backs routine is in Focus by Phil Goldstein
• The Beast with two Backs" in The Crimp (Jan 1994)
• Vernon version in Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol.VII?
• Bob Read's version 'All Backs and Additions' in 'Thanks to Pepys'

References

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