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[[Atomic Deck]] is the name for a couple of mechanical decks. | [[Atomic Deck]] is the name for a couple of mechanical decks. | ||
== Joe Berg == | == Joe Berg == | ||
| − | Joe Berg's marketed an '''Atomic Deck''' which allows you to show all cards are ordinary. Two cards are peeked at. All cards change to value of first, then then the second, and finally back to original condition. It can also allow you to vanish two selected cards from the deck. Seen advertised in [[Genii]] Oct 1953. | + | Joe Berg's marketed an '''Atomic Deck''' or '''Atomic Mystery Deck''' which allows you to show all cards are ordinary. Two cards are peeked at. All cards change to value of first, then then the second, and finally back to original condition. It can also allow you to vanish two selected cards from the deck. Seen advertised in [[Genii]] Oct 1953. |
== Dai Vernon == | == Dai Vernon == | ||
Revision as of 01:23, 2 February 2010
Atomic Deck is the name for a couple of mechanical decks.
Joe Berg
Joe Berg's marketed an Atomic Deck or Atomic Mystery Deck which allows you to show all cards are ordinary. Two cards are peeked at. All cards change to value of first, then then the second, and finally back to original condition. It can also allow you to vanish two selected cards from the deck. Seen advertised in Genii Oct 1953.
Dai Vernon
Dai Vernon's created a forcing deck in which the volunteer could shuffle yet still cut to one of them in the mid-1930s, but did not give it a name. It was first dubbed the "Brainwave Deck" by Francis Carlyle, but later retitled the "Atomic Deck" by Faucett Ross in 1953. Dai Vernon then used the name Brain Wave Deck for another routine in 1938.
References
- Genii 1953 October, Vol. 18, No. 2, advertisement page 79.
- The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Magic by Bart Whaley (1989)
- Magic City Library of Magic - Trick Decks, Vol. 14 by Leo Behnke (1991)
