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Color Change
"Color Change" is generic term for any card sleight in which one card is apparently (and often visually) changed into another. The usual procedure is done by passing a hand over a deck which is held face up by the other hand. Most methods require Palming a card. More advanced methods allow the magician to apparently be holding only a single card before and after the change.
The classic Color Change seems to be a creation of Felicien Trewey at the end of 19th century.
One of the first descriptions of a Color Change is "Trewey's Back Card Palm" in Sleight of Hand by Edwin Sachs (1877) (page 114 in Dover Publications Inc. edition, 1980). One of the earliest books to use the actual term "color change" was New Era Card Tricks by August Roterberg (1897).
Color Changes in Print
- The Modern Conjurer (pg. 62)
- Greater Magic (pg. 212) (1938)
- Expert Card Technique (pg. 161) (1940)
- Tarbell Course in Magic Vol 2 (pg. 172)
- Magic without Apparatus (1945) (pg. 108).
- Expert at the Card Table (under the title Transformations. Two Hands. First Method.) (1902)
Color Changes in Genii Magazine
- Erdnase Sideways, by Guy Hollingworth, in the July 2005 Genii (see video on right)