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