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==Publications==
==Publications==
* '''The Double Lift''': [[Jean Hugard]] and [[Fred Braue]], ''[[Expert Card Technique]]'' (1940, pp. 3-7).
* '''The Double Lift''' ([[Jack McMillen]], [[Jack McMillen#Expert Card Technique (1940)|uncredited]]): [[Jean Hugard]] and [[Fred Braue]], ''[[Expert Card Technique]]'' (1940, pp. 3-7).


* '''One Hand Double Turnover''' ([[Ed Marlo]]): Ed Marlo, ''[[Off the Top]]'' (1945, pp. 7-8).
* '''One Hand Double Turnover''' ([[Ed Marlo]]): Ed Marlo, ''[[Off the Top]]'' (1945, pp. 7-8).

Revision as of 19:41, 14 January 2015

The Double Lift is a sleight by which two cards are "lifted" and shown as a single card. It is referred to as a Double Turnover if the cards are immediately placed back on the deck.

The "concept" was first described in The Merry Companion; or Delights for the Ingenious, written by Richard Neve in 1716. The title was "To Fein to Change the Top Card of the pack to Another" (p. 141). Many magicians have published techniques for the Double Lift since.

Arthur Finley is generally recognized as the first to use a Double Turnover, where the cards are turned over and immediately placed on the pack.

Publications

  • T. T. T. (Two-card Turnover Technique) (Ron Bauer): Genii, Vol. 46 No. 11 (November 1982, pp. 750-751).
    • Ron Bauer, The Ron Bauer 2008 Lecture (2008, pp. 17-22).