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The Double Lift is a sleight by which two cards are "lifted" and shown as a single card. It is referred to as a Double Turnover if the cards are immediately placed back on the deck.

The "concept" was first described in The Merry Companion; or Delights for the Ingenious, written by Richard Neve in 1716. The title was "To Fein to Change the Top Card of the pack to Another" (p. 141). Many magicians have published techniques for the Double Lift since.

Arthur Finley is generally recognized as the first to use a Double Turnover, where the cards are turned over and immediately placed on the pack.

Popular Techniques

Push-Off

• The One Hand Push-Off: Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, pp. 9-11).
  • The One Hand Push-Off Double Lift (Frederick Lowe): Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 6 No. 6 (November 1948, p. 484).

• The Double Lift (Second Method) (Cy Endfield): The Gen, Vol. 8 No. 8 (December 1952, pp. 241-242).
  • Lewis Ganson, Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic III (1958, pp. 55-58).

• The Knock-Out Double Lift (Martin Nash): Stephen Minch, Ever So Sleightly (1975, pp. 17-27)

• The Natural Double Lift (Ken Krenzel): Harry Lorayne, The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel (1978, pp. 13-16).
  • A Heavenly Turnover (Steve Draun): Richard Kaufman, Secrets Draun From Underground (1993, pp. 19-21).

• T. T. T. (Two-card Turnover Technique) (Ron Bauer): Genii, Vol. 46 No. 11 (November 1982, pp. 750-751).
  • Ron Bauer, The Ron Bauer 2008 Lecture (2008, pp. 17-22).

• The DD Double Lift (Derek Dingle): Richard Kaufman, The Complete Works of Derek Dingle (1982, pp. 6-8).

• The Push-over Double: Roberto Giobbi, Card College, Vol. 3 (1998, pp. 573-574).

The "Vernon" Push-Off

• One Hand Double Turnover: Ed Marlo, Off the Top (1945, pp. 7-8).
  • Two Card Throw: Ed Marlo, Marlo in Spades (1947, pp. 5-6).
• Push Off Lift (Dai Vernon): Lewis Ganson, Dai Vernon's Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic (1967, p. 54).

Vernon's Simulated Push-Off

• The Double Lift (Dai Vernon): George Starke, ed., Stars of Magic, Series 5 No. 2 (1949, pp. 3-4).
  • Lewis Ganson, The Dai Vernon Book of Magic (1957, pp. 119-122).
  • George Starke, ed., Stars of Magic (1961, pp. 78-79).
  • The Finley-Vernon Double Turnover: Ron Bauer, The Mechanical Deck (Ron Bauer Private Studies Series, No. 11) (1999, pp. 19-30).

Strike/Hit Lift

• The Flip-Over Double-Lift: Paul Le Paul, The Card Magic of Le Paul (1949, pp. 69-71).

• Instantaneous Double Lift (Dr. Jacob Daley): George Starke, ed., Stars of Magic, Vol. 7 No. 2 (1950, pp. 2-3).
  • George Starke, ed., Stars of Magic (1961, pp. 108-109).
  • Daley Strike Double (Daryl Martinez): Stephen Minch, Secrets of a Puerto Rican Gambler (1980, pp. 48-49).
    • Stephen Minch, Daryl's Ambitious Card Omnibus (1987, pp. 5-7).

• Hit Double Lift: Ed Marlo, The Cardician (1953, pp. 52-53).
  • Crackling Turnover: Jon Racherbaumer, Card Finesse (1982, pp. 61-62).

• Instant Double and Triple Turnover Technique (Brother John Hamman): Richard Kaufman, The Secrets of Brother John Hamman (1989, pp. 11-14).

Leipzig Double Lift

• Leipzig Double Lift (Nate Leipzig): George Starke, ed., Stars of Magic, Series 10 (1952, p. 3).
  • Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 11 No. 5 (October 1953, p. 52).
  • George Starke, ed., Stars of Magic (1961, p. 143).
  • Lewis Ganson, Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig (1963, pp. 29-30).
  • Modified Leipzig Snap (Joseph K. Schmidt): Genii, Vol. 72 No. 9 (September 2009, p. 22).

Stuart Gordon Turnover

• Pivot Turnover: Ken Simmons, Riffling the Pasteboards (1986, pp. 8-9).
  • Ken Simmons, Guarded Secrets Revealed (1988).

• Gordon Double Lift (Stuart Gordon): Mike Maxwell, Larry Jennings' The Cardwright (1988, pp. 114-115).
  • Darwin Ortiz, Cardshark (1995, pp. 105-106).
  • Richard Kaufman, Jennings '67 (1997, pp. 186-187).
  • Genii, Vol. 67 No. 5 (May 2004, pp. 61-62).
  • A Stuart Gordon Turnover Variation: Wesley James, Enchantments (2004, pp. 164-166).

Other Publications

Other Techniques

• The Double Lift: Jean Hugard, Card Manipulations No. 2 (1933, p. 22).

• The Double Lift: Ralph W. Hull, More Eye-Openers (1933, p. 3).

• A Double Lift: Frank Lane, Two Hours With Frank Lane (1933, p. 7).

• Double Card Lift (Tommy Tucker): Charles Eastman, Expert Manipulative Magic (1933, p. 12).

• The Perfect Double Card Lift: Ralph W. Hull and Nelson C. Hahne, Modernism in Pasteboard (1934, p. 8).
  • Double Lift (Ralph W. Hull and Trevor H. Hall): Trevor H. Hall, The Testament of Ralph W. Hull (1945, pp. 19-21).

• The Double Card Turn-Over: Victor Farelli, Lend Me Your Pack (1935, pp. 45-48).
  • The Double Card Turn-Over and "Lift" (Victor Farelli): The Sphinx, Vol. 37 No. 10, (December 1938, pp. 247-248).

• Double Lift (P. W. Millar): The Tops, Vol. 1 No. 8, (August 1936, p. 28).

• Double Lift Used in Passing, Tommy Tucker, What Next! (1936, p. 26; 1975, pp. 18-19).

• The Double Lift: Tommy Tucker, What Next! (1936, p. 31; 1975, p. 22).

• The Snap Double Lift (Will De Seive): William H. Wilson, These Card Tricks (1936).

• The Double Lift: Jean Hugard, The Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (1937, p. 382).

• The E. V. Invisible Double Lift (Edward Victor): Edward Victor, The Magic of the Hands (1937, pp. 4-6).

• The Multiple Lift: Lynn Searles, The Card Expert (1938, pp. 31-33).

• The Carlyle Snap Double Lift (Francis X. Carlyle): Jean Hugard, More Card Manipulations No. 2 (1939, pp. 8-9).

• The Jamison Double Lift (R. M. Jamison): Jean Hugard, More Card Manipulations No. 2 (1939, pp. 10-11).

• The Double Lift: Jean Hugard, Modern Magic Manual (1939, p. 318).

• The Double Lift: Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, p. 3).

• The Triple and Quadruple Lifts: Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, pp. 3-4).

• The Lift (Jack McMillen, uncredited): Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, pp. 5-6).

• The Double Lift in Action: Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, pp. 6-7).

• The Triple and Quadruple Lifts in Action: Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, p. 7).

• The Double Lift Turnover (Method A): Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, p. 8).

• The Double Lift Turnover (Method B): Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, p. 9).
  • Domico Snap Over Double Lift (Carmen D'Amico): Arthur Buckley, Card Control (1946, pp. 15-16).
  • The Snap-Over Double-Lift: Paul Le Paul, The Card Magic of Le Paul (1949, pp. 73-75).
    • Paul Le Paul, The Card Magic of Bro. John Hamman S.M. (1958, p. 28).

• Two as One (Frank Herman): Genii, Vol. 7 No. 2 (October 1942, p. 41).

• The Double Lift: Henry Hay, Learn Magic (1942, p. 206).

• "The Flip" Double Lift (Edouard Cartier): Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 2 No. 11 (April 1945, pp. 113, 116).

• Double-Lift (Clayton Rawson): The Phoenix, No. 100 (Feb. 1, 1946, pp. 404-405).

• Reverse English on the Double Lift: Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 3 No. 9 (February 1946, p. 194).

• Prelude to Duo Coincidence (Peter Warlock): Pentagram, Vol. 1 No. 2, (November 1946, p. 9).

• The Double Lift: Paul Clive, Card Tricks Without Skill (1946, p. 9; 1973, pp. 18-19).

• Lifting Two Cards As One: Trevor H. Hall, Nothing Is Impossible (1946, pp. 20-21).

• The Double Lift: Wilfrid Jonson, But Not to Play (1946, p. 24).

• The Double Turnover: Wilfrid Jonson, But Not to Play (1946, pp. 24-25).

• Double Lift (Frederick Leigh): Demon Telegraph, No. 91 (January 1947, p. 5).

• Double Lift Plus (Stanley Collins): Pentagram, Vol. 1 No. 6 (March 1947, p. 36).

• The Max Katz Double-Lift (Max Katz): Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 5 No. 2, (July 1947, p. 335).

• Just A Second (John M. Zlogar): The Linking Ring, Vol. 27 No. 6 (August 1947, pp. 54-55).

• The Esscee Double Lift (Stanley Collins): Stanley Collins, A Conjuring Melange (1947, pp. 94-97).

• Thumbing a Lift: Sid Fleischman and Robert J. Gunther, Top Secrets (1947, pp. 6-7).

• Gusias' Fancy Lift (Bill Gusias): Ed Marlo, Marlo in Spades (1947, pp. 4-5).

• The "S" Shaped Turnover (Ed Marlo): Ed Marlo, Marlo in Spades (1947, pp. 6-7).

• The Braue Double Lift (Fred Braue): Jean Hugard and Fred Braue's Show Stoppers with Cards (1948, pp. 1-3).

• The Double Lift: Dariel Fitzkee, The Card Expert Entertains (1948, pp. 101-102).

• The Double Lift: Lewis Ganson, How Right You Are (1948, p. 6).

• The Double Lift and Turnover: Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue, The Royal Road to Card Magic (1948, pp. 141-143).

• The Double Lift (Five Methods): Anthony Norman, Basic Card Technique (1948, pp. 103-109).
  • Anthony Norman, Basic Card Technique (1968, pp. 30-31).

• Pittman One-Hand Double Lift (George Pittman): The Sphinx, Vol. 48 No. 2 (April 1949, p. 35).

• The Double Lift (Rezvani): Maurice Sardina and Dariel Fitzkee, tr., The Magic of Rezvani (1949, p. 24).

• Double Lift: Henry Hay, Cyclopedia of Magic (1949, pp. 56-57).

• The Triple Lift (Ned Rutledge): The Linking Ring, Vol. 30 No. 4 (June 1950, pp. 48-51).

• The Double Lift: Henry Hay, The Amateur Magician's Handbook (1950, p. 65).

• A Double Lift Variation (Tom Sellers): The Gen, Vol. 7 No. 4 (August 1951, p. 105).

• The "Flick" Double Lift (Will Prothero): The Wizard, Vol. 5 No. 51 (September 1951, pp. 79-80).
  • Koynini's "Flick" Double Lift (Toni Koynini): The Wizard, Vol. 5 No. 51 (September 1951, p. 80).

• The "Incredible" Double Lift (Douglas Hood): Abracadabra, Vol. 12 No. 291 (Aug. 25, 1951, pp. 67-68).

• The Double Lift (First Method) (Cy Endfield): Lewis Ganson, Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic III (1958, pp. 53-55).

• The Double Lift: Cliff Green, Professional Card Magic (1961, p. 17).

• The Push-Pull Double Lift: Cliff Green, Professional Card Magic (1961, pp. 19-21).

• Double Lift: Harry Lorayne, Close-Up Card Magic (1962, pp. 52-53).

• A Snappy Lift (Larry Jennings): The Gen, Vol. 20 No. 5 (September 1964, p. 130).
  • Mike Maxwell, The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings (1986, pp. 238-239).
  • Mike Maxwell, Larry Jennings' The Cardwright (1988, pp. 148-150).

• The "Kick" Double-Lift: Harry Lorayne, Deck-Sterity (1967, pp. 8-11).

• The Drawback Double Lift: Paul Curry, Paul Curry Presents (1974, p. 36).
  • Paul Curry, Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond (2001, pp. 10-13).

• The Drag Lift (Ken Krenzel): Harry Lorayne, The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel (1978, pp. 26-30).

• The Razor Lift (Gordon Bruce): Pabular, Vol. 7 No. 4 (May 1982, pp. 1024-1025).

• A Double Lift: Roberto Giobbi, Card College, Vol. 1 (1995, pp. 129-130).

• A Double Turnover: Roberto Giobbi, Card College, Vol. 1 (1995, pp. 130-131).

• The Relativity Lift (Paul Curry): Genii, Vol. 46 No. 2 (February 1982, pp. 90-91).
  • Paul Curry, Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond (2001, pp. 6-9).

With a Short Card

• The Double Lift With a Short Card: John Northern Hilliard, Greater Magic (1938, pp. 475-476).
  • John Northern Hilliard, Card Magic: a Practical Treatise on Modern Card Conjuring (1945, pp. 475-476).

• The Double Lift: Joe Stuthard, Svengali Subtleties (1938; 1948, p. 1).

• The Double Lift (Charles Leyland): Abracadabra, Vol. 8 No. 191 (Sep. 24, 1949, pp. 140-141).

Double Lift Substitutes

• Double Lift Substitute (Deane Moore): Jean Hugard, More Card Manipulations No. 4 (1941, pp. 16-17).

• Substitutes for the Double Lift (George Starke): Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 3 No. 3 (August 1945, p. 144).

Altman Trap

• The Altman Trap (Art Altman): Ed Marlo, Advanced Fingertip Control (1970, p. 147).

Replacement Moves

Stanley Collins Replacement

• The Esscee Double Lift: Stanley Collins, A Conjuring Melange (1947, pp. 94-97).
  • Pabular, Vol. 7 No. 4 (May 1982, pp. 1024-1025).
  • Peter Duffie, Duffie's Card Compulsions (1995, pp. 260-265).
  • Jon Racherbaumer, Lipstick Traces (2009, ebook, pp. 6, 18-19).

Vernon Replacement

• The M.K. Double Lift Replacement (Max Katz): M-U-M, Vol. 47 No. 3 (August 1957, pp. 100-103).
• Vernon Replacement (Dai Vernon): Lewis Ganson, Dai Vernon's Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic (1960, pp. 69-70).
  • Frank Csuri, ed., Jacob Daley's Notebooks (1971, entry 22).
  • John Carney, Carneycopia (1991, p. 66).
  • Roberto Giobbi, Card College, Vol. 3 (1998, pp. 582-584).
  • Genii, Vol. 64 No. 12 (December 2001, pp. 53-54).
  • Jon Racherbaumer, Lipstick Traces (2009, ebook, p. 7).
• A Double Lift is a Double Lift (Doug Edwards): Apocalypse, Vol. 19 No. 5 (May 1996, p. 2648).
• The Ghost Switch (Martin Nash): Stephen Minch, Any Second Now (1977, pp. 152-153).

Tamariz/Bruce Replacement

• A Double-Lift Finesse (Anonymous): Apocalypse, Vol. 2 No. 7 (July 1979, p. 222).
  • Jon Racherbaumer, Lipstick Traces (2009, ebook, p. 12-13).
• The Tamariz Turnover (Juan Tamariz): Pabular, Vol. 7 No. 1 (January 1982, pp. 970-972).
  • Juan Tamariz, Sonata (1989, pp. 57-61).
  • Roberto Giobbi, Card College, Vol. 3 (1998, pp. 580-581).
  • Jon Racherbaumer, Lipstick Traces (2009, ebook, p. 14-17).
  • The Ascanio Addition to the Tamariz Turnover (Arturo de Ascanio): Pabular, Vol. 7 No. 1 (January 1982, p. 972).
    • Juan Tamariz, Sonata (1989, pp. 61-62).
  • Touch for the Tamariz Turnover: Michael Close, Workers 4 (1994, p. 47).
• A Touch for the Double Lift (Gordon Bruce): Pabular, Vol. 7 No. 4 (May 1982, pp. 1025-1026).
  • Jon Racherbaumer, Lipstick Traces (2009, ebook, p. 21-22).
• An Ambitious Card Move: Frank Garcia, The Close-Up Magic of Frank Garcia, Part II (1982, pp. 25-27).
• The Braue Turndown (Fred Braue): Jeff Busby, ed., The Fred Braue Notebooks, Vol. 3 (1985, p. 25).
  • Jon Racherbaumer, Lipstick Traces (2009, ebook, pp. 10-11).
• Outjog Subtlety (Dai Vernon): Mike Maxwell, The Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner (1987, p. 61).
• The Unload Subtlety: Wesley James, Enchantments (2004, pp. 167-169).

Other

• The New Dai Vernon Double Lift (Dai Vernon): The Gen, Vol. 19 No. 7 (November 1963, pp. 175-176).

Get-Ready Techniques

• The Lift Get-Ready: Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, p. 4-5).
  • Straddle-Grip Getready (Dai Vernon): Genii Vol. 62 No. 12 (December 1999, pp. 60-61).