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** '''Push Off Lift''' ([[Dai Vernon]]): [[Lewis Ganson]], ''[[Dai Vernon's Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic]]'' (1967, p. 54).  
** '''Push Off Lift''' ([[Dai Vernon]]): [[Lewis Ganson]], ''[[Dai Vernon's Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic]]'' (1967, p. 54).  


* '''The Double Lift''' ([[Dai Vernon]]): ''[[Stars of Magic]]'', Vol. 5 No. 2 (1949, pp. 78-79).
* '''The Double Lift''' ([[Dai Vernon]]): ''[[Stars of Magic]]'', Series 5 No. 2 (1949, pp. 78-79).
** [[Lewis Ganson]], ''[[The Dai Vernon Book of Magic]]'' (1957, pp. 119-122).
** [[Lewis Ganson]], ''[[The Dai Vernon Book of Magic]]'' (1957, pp. 119-122).
** '''The Finley-Vernon Double Turnover''': [[Ron Bauer]], ''The Mechanical Deck'' (''[[Ron Bauer Private Studies Series]]'', No. 11) (1999, pp. 19-30).
** '''The Finley-Vernon Double Turnover''': [[Ron Bauer]], ''The Mechanical Deck'' (''[[Ron Bauer Private Studies Series]]'', No. 11) (1999, pp. 19-30).
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* '''Instantaneous Double Lift''' ([[Dr. Jacob Daley]]): ''[[Stars of Magic]]'', Vol. 7 No. 2 (1950, pp. 108-109).
* '''Instantaneous Double Lift''' ([[Dr. Jacob Daley]]): ''[[Stars of Magic]]'', Vol. 7 No. 2 (1950, pp. 108-109).
** '''Hit Double Lift''' ([[Ed Marlo]]): Ed Marlo, ''[[The Cardician]]'' (1953, pp. 52-53).
** '''Hit Double Lift''' ([[Ed Marlo]]): Ed Marlo, ''[[The Cardician]]'' (1953, pp. 52-53).
* '''Double Lift''' ([[Nate Leipzig]]): ''[[Stars of Magic]]'', Series 10 (1952, p. 143).
** [[Lewis Ganson]], ''[[Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig]]'' (1963, pp. 29-30).


* '''A Snappy Lift''' ([[Larry Jennings]]): ''[[The Gen]]'', Vol. 20 No. 5 (September 1964, p. 130).
* '''A Snappy Lift''' ([[Larry Jennings]]): ''[[The Gen]]'', Vol. 20 No. 5 (September 1964, p. 130).
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** [[Darwin Ortiz]], ''[[Cardshark]]'' (1995, pp. 105-106).
** [[Darwin Ortiz]], ''[[Cardshark]]'' (1995, pp. 105-106).
** [[Richard Kaufman]], ''[[Jennings '67]]'' (1997, pp. 186-187).
** [[Richard Kaufman]], ''[[Jennings '67]]'' (1997, pp. 186-187).
* ''[[Genii 2004 May|Genii]]'', Vol. 67 No. 5 (May 2004, pp. 61-62).


* '''Instant Double and Triple Turnover Technique''' ([[John Hamman|Brother John Hamman]]): [[Richard Kaufman]], ''[[The Secrets of Brother John Hamman]]'' (1989, pp. 11-14).
* '''Instant Double and Triple Turnover Technique''' ([[John Hamman|Brother John Hamman]]): [[Richard Kaufman]], ''[[The Secrets of Brother John Hamman]]'' (1989, pp. 11-14).

Revision as of 20:11, 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).