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Si Stebbins
Si Stebbins (1867 - October 12, 1950) was born William H. Coffrin.
He performed as a acrobat and clown in circuses, billed as "Vino". He published some books under the name "Vino" too.
He became known as Si Stebbins in 1892. He is the creator of the card stack called the Si Stebbins Stack. The version he published was actually a bit different then how he performed it. The cards he used were four numbers apart, not the familiar three, and there was a different rotation of suits.
Stebbins died of a heart attack in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Si Stebbins System
Horacio Galasso described the progression in Giochi de Carte (1593) which was translated to French and possibly the source for Gaspar Cardozo de Sequeira's Portuguese book Thesouro de Prudents" (1612).
Si Stebbins publishes his version in William Vino's Card Tricks (1898).
Howard Thurston publishes his version as "The Thurston System" in Howard Thurston's Card Tricks (1901).
Books
- William Vino's Card Tricks (1898)
