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Lesson 54 — The Card Slot

THE CARD SLOT

Tarbell illustration, Lesson 54, source PDF page 949

This is the special slot cut in the back of the table. It is useful in adding extra cards in the rising card trick, four ace tricks, etc. The extra cards are slipped into the slot as in Fig. 30. To get extra cards onto deck merely place deck down on table over extra cards, Fig. 31. Deck can rest there a moment while you show something else. Pick up deck together with the extra cards, Fig. 31. Fingers rest on one end of deck and the thumb on the other end. In this manner cards are easily picked up.

Book contents

Introduction

  1. About These Card Lessons

Core card lessons

  1. Lesson 9 — The Principles of Card Effects
  2. Lesson 12 — Cards That Pass in the Night and Cards Up the Sleeve
  3. Lesson 13 — Review, the Regular Pass and Card Stabs
  4. Lesson 14 — The Force, Card and Orange, and Banana Effects
  5. Lesson 15 — Card Positions, Palms, Shifts and Discoveries
  6. Lesson 16 — Card Penetrations Through Boards and Handkerchiefs
  7. Lesson 17 — Snap It, Flash Production and the Glass House
  8. Lesson 18 — Rising Cards
  9. Lesson 19 — More Rising Card Effects
  10. Lesson 34 — Twelve Impromptu Effects with Cards
  11. Lesson 35 — Sleight of Hand with Cards
  12. Lesson 36 — More Card Magic

Additional card effects

  1. Lesson 26 — A Card and Ribbon Mystery
  2. Lesson 29 — The X-Ray Cards
  3. Lesson 31 — Blindfold Card Reading and A Mystic Discovery
  4. Lesson 45 — Spirit Photography
  5. Lesson 54 — The Card Slot

Edition notes

  1. Source and Edition Notes