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* ''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)
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* ''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)
  

Revision as of 21:19, 4 April 2010

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

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