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* [[The Modern Conjurer]] (pg. 62)
 
* [[The Modern Conjurer]] (pg. 62)
* [[Greater Magic]] (pg. 212)
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* [[Greater Magic]] (pg. 212) (1938)
* [[Expert Card Technique]] (pg. 161)
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* [[Expert Card Technique]] (pg. 161) (1940)
 
* [[Tarbell Course in Magic]] Vol 2 (pg. 172)
 
* [[Tarbell Course in Magic]] Vol 2 (pg. 172)
* [[Magic without Apparatus]] (pg. 108).
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* [[Magic without Apparatus]] (1945) (pg. 108).
* [[Expert at the Card Table]] (under the title Transformations. Two Hands. First Method.)
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* [[Expert at the Card Table]] (under the title Transformations. Two Hands. First Method.) (1902)
 
[[Category:Card Sleights]]
 
[[Category:Card Sleights]]

Revision as of 18:27, 16 November 2009

The Color Change is card sleight that mysteriously changes one card into another. The usual procedure is done by passing a hand over a deck which is being held face-up by the other. Most methods requiring Palming a card. Move advanced methods appear as if the magician is only holding a single card.

The classic color change seems to be a creation of Felicien Trewey at the end of 19th century.

One of the first description is in Sleight of Hand by Edwin Sachs (1877) (page 114 in Dover Publications, Inc. 1980) as "Trewey's Back Card Palm" (which is noted as a Color-Change). One of the earliest books to use the actual term "color change" was New Era Card Tricks by August Roterberg (1897).

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