Here is a tip! SID LORRAINE'S TIP OF THE MONTH (NEW TOPS, Vol. 4, no. 3, march 1964) If you're a walnut-shell-and-pea performer, you may have, already, done a lot of experimenting with compositions and substitutes for the elusive pea. While this half-shell swindling is not on my list of regular clos...
After few searches in Ask Alexander and Conjuring Archive, it seems that Tom sellers and Harold Beaumont independently have the same idea in the 1940's. A three which becomes a ten in a "long" card. BUT in the review of The Magic Wand no. 235, oct 1952, we can read : Jack Lamonte had origi...
I find a trick by Frank Chapman in Another Six Bits (1936) entitled A Gag in which you show a Six as the chosen card and when the spectator say his card is a Five, you show that the Six have only five spots.
There is no rising card and no corner fold but the idea is the same.
If the "lovely ruse" is the one explained by JR, it remember me an application by Ed Marlo in his book The Unexpected Card Book entitled The Quick Cull Miracle.
No, in the NoLap, after the strip-out and the addition under the four cards, you steal these four indifferent cards above the Aces under the right packet held by the right hand. In Rhod's sleight, you strip-out the cards and you put them immediately on the table and you have only the number of cards...
In 1994, Daniel Rhod described a switch pratically similar in his book Plus Secrets Secrets, except he used a cover and it's the left forefinger under this cover which pushes cards into the deck. He was inspired by an Elmsley's idea.
You can find the trick under the name L'enveloppe merveilleuse (The Marvelous Envelope), page 199 from Le Magicien amateur (1897) by Magus (who was simply a compiler).
There is a little mistake in the presentation of your book (which does not devalue your treatise). Onazam's book was first edited in 1694. Card counting are the XXXII, XXXIII & XXXIV problem, page 132-135 And there are three examples: Count for one card Count for two cards Count for three cards ...
Hex Squared by Karl Fulves is described in Pallbearers Review, Vol. 7, no. 1, nov 1971, page 466 and you have some other informations page 512 and 550.
Gardner's trick entitled Quant Quirk was published in Octet in 1981, then in Martin Gardner Presents, page 153, published in 1993 (thank to RK)