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Collectors
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Revision as of 16:22, 18 July 2009 by David Acer (Talk | contribs) (Expanded description, alphabetized and expanded list of published versions)
Collectors is the name given by Roy Walton to a now-classic plot in card magic wherein three selected cards are lost in the deck, then reappear interlaced (and face down) between the cards in a face-up four-of-a-kind (e.g., Aces, Kings, Queens).
The plot was in print prior to the publication of Walton's Collectors as "Ose's Addition to The Apex Ace," by Jay Ose, in Close-Up Card Magic (Lorayne, 1962).
Published Versions
- CYPRIAN, Fr. - The Bottom Collectors (1975)
- DESOUZA, Marc - Collection Agency, DeSouza's DeCeptions (Acer, 2001). A method devised by DeSouza to eliminate "fiddling and fumbling" while setting up for the climax.
- DOCHERTY, Doc - Super Collectors, Genii, August 2009. A handling wherein the face-up four-of-a-kind (e.g., Kings) is visibly pulled up through the deck, then spread, showing all three face-down selections now interlaced between them.
- MARLO, Ed - Versions by Marlo in Hierophant #2 (Winter 1969).
- OSE, Jay - Ose's Addition to The Apex Ace, Close-Up Card Magic by Harry Lorayne (1962)
- WALTON, Roy - The Collectors, Abracadabra 15th February, 1969. Volume 47, Number 1203, page 99.
