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Harvey Rosenthal

Hi Tom, Peter's Cannibal Card routine, Dinner for Two is brilliant. If it is beyond your skill level that isn't a weakness of the routine. Spend more time practicing. I have performed the routine at least a dozen times for lay audiences and received wonderful reactions to the trick. I have never see...

Harvey Rosenthal

I have six decks of Golden Nugget Playing Cards from the early 1970s (3 red backs and 3 black backs) for sale. All are in pristine condition. I also have one deck of Great Mogul Cards in pristine condition. In addition I have a open deck of Uncle Sam cards that date from World War II. They were give...

Harvey Rosenthal

Harvey Rosenthal

Thank you Asser for the information and quick response.

Harvey Rosenthal

Harvey Rosenthal

Does anyone recall what issue of Genii Steve Freeman's card effect "Back in Time" was published? If my memory serves me, it was in the late 1970s or early 1980s.

Thank you.

Harvey Rosenthal

Harvey Rosenthal

[font:Comic Sans MS]I am looking to purchase a copy of TSD Freebie 2009 and Freebie 2006. Please contact me by e-mail if a copy of either or both issues are available for sale.
My e-mail address is <hmrosenthal1@comcast.net>

Thanks,

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Harvey Rosenthal

I regret to have to report that the son of Sol and Alice Stone of New York, lost his long battle with cancer. He was in the mid-50s and unmarried. The funeral will be held on Sunday.

Harvey Rosenthal

[font:Comic Sans MS] [font:Comic Sans MS][/font]While I have a copy of the David Ben Zarrow Book,I would be very interested to hear comments from other people who own the book as what they think of it with respect to the material. I may have missed it, but I don't recall seeing a thread discussing t...

Harvey Rosenthal

Richard, To the best of my knowledge, the Altman handling of the Double Undercut Palm was first published on pages 72 and 73 of Marlo's Magazine #4 in 1981. I learned the move from Frank Thompson who taught it to me in New York City in February of 1966. During my first trip to London in July of 196...

Harvey Rosenthal

[font:Comic Sans MS]Gentlemen,

Has anyone received a copy of the Herb Zarrow Book?

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Harvey Rosenthal

[font:Comic Sans MS] Gentlemen, In SLEIGHT UNSEEN , Part Three of The Professional Card Technique of Martin A. Nash published in 1979, I played a major role in supplying credits for the material contained in the first two volumes of the superb Nash trilogy. On page 442 it is written with respect to ...

Harvey Rosenthal

[font:Comic Sans MS]Having been doing card magic since 1950, some of the finest cardmen I have known with respect to innovativeness and skill who I don't think were mentioned above are Francis Carlyle (also a magnificent performer), Ed Balducci, Henry Christ, Herb Zarrow, Charlie Miller, Dr. Jacob ...

Harvey Rosenthal

[font:Comic Sans MS]Gentlemen,

Watching the Presidential debate last night I came up with a new card effect.

You all know the classic SAM THE BELLHOP routine. I worked out an even stronger effect called JOE THE PLUMBER. It may be a feature trick in my forthcoming card book:-)

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Harvey Rosenthal

The best two handed shifts (classic and riffle passes) done today that I have seen are performed by Ken Krenzel, Howie Schwarzman, Steve Draun and Peter Duffie. As an aside, Ken taught the classic and riffle pass to Derek Dingle. I was a very close friend of Larry Jennings and discussed the classic...

Harvey Rosenthal

[font:Comic Sans MS] Hey Guys, I got my AckermanErdnase package from Geno Monday afternoon also. What a beautiful job done. Geno and Allan are to be congratulated. This Erdnase 11 DVD set and the bonus package was well worth waiting for. I spent the entire day watching all the teaching DVDs. I was a...

Harvey Rosenthal

[font:Georgia] On August 30th I posted a link to a movie of one of my tricks that uses a spread cull a number of times during the course of the effect. My reason for posting that video was to give anyone trying to learn a cull from the written page a visual image how a spread cull done well looks in...

Harvey Rosenthal

I use an iMac and make my computer movies in the highest QuickTime quality using iMovie . The problem is the QuickTime file size is huge so I always convert the QuickTime movies to Real Player format. I share my movies on a regular basis with among others, Steve Draun, Allan Ackerman and Peter Duff...

Harvey Rosenthal

Gentlemen, A number of posters offered some good advice on culling. As a person who uses a fair amount of culling in his card magic, I thought it would be useful to provide a link to a movie I made some time ago of one of my favorite tricks that is dependent on culling and an original sleight. The ...

Harvey Rosenthal

[font:Georgia]I was contacted by Lance Pierce this morning that Roger Kause, my friend of more than 39 years lost his battle with cancer at about 9:30 A.M. today. We all knew that the end was inevitable but that did not make it any easier to lose an old friend who was one of the finest close-up mag...

Harvey Rosenthal

I first met Geoff at the 1983 New York Magic Symposium. We had dinner together the first night and had a great session where I saw Geoff do some of the most amazing coin and card magic I have seen to this day. He, Tom Gagnon, Mike Gallo and myself spent the next 48 hours having a marathon coin sessi...

Harvey Rosenthal

[font:Georgia]Just heard from Allan Ackerman that Geno Munari e-mailed him on Saturday that his only son who was in the mid-30s, passed away on Friday. As you can well imagine, Geno is devastated.

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Harvey Rosenthal

[font:Georgia]Hey Guys

On a more somber note, just heard from Allan Ackerman that Geno Munari e-mailed him on Saturday that his only son who was in the mid-30s, passed away on Friday. As you can well imagine, Geno is devastated.

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Harvey Rosenthal

Hi Guys, Just wanted to tell you how excited I am about Doc Docherty's terrific Groove Electric. The sleight is simply amazing and anyone interest in great card magic should immediately contact Doc and buy a copy of his superb book The Cards Remain the Same which contains a complete description of ...

Harvey Rosenthal

Hi Guys, Just got off the phone with Allan Ackerman. He told me he just talked to Geno and was told they are now over the three hundred mark in pre-orders so the pre-order bonus offer is now at an end. The pre-orders are going to start shipping next week and will go out in two parts. The first will...

Harvey Rosenthal

There is still a little time left to get in on the pre-publication sale offered on Allan Ackermans website <a class="postlink" href="http://allanackerman.com">http://allanackerman.com</a> for his new DVD set featuring all the material in Expert at the Card Table. The pre-publicat...

Harvey Rosenthal

Richard, Thank you for the information on ARCANE. Karl Fulves and I were very close friends in the late 1950s through at least 1980 and were in very close contact. I have a very large library and Karl always called me to check references for him for Pallbearers, Epilogue and Chronicles. I have two c...

Harvey Rosenthal

DHY, thank you for your kind words.

By the way, at the present time I can't lay my hands on those unpublished Fulves manuscripts.

Harvey

Harvey Rosenthal

I have a complete file of ARCANE (14 issues). Does anyone know what such a file in pristine condition is worth?

Harvey Rosenthal

The text volume of my copy of THE BEST OF SLYDINI...AND MORE is autographed in blue ink Best wishes, Slydini . Karl Fulves wrote the text for my New Stars of Magic effect titled Perfect Coin Assembly which Tannen's published in 1973. Missing from the list of Fulves publications is a major one. He re...

Harvey Rosenthal

Pete, Steve left on vacation Sunday morning June 29th and will return home next Sunday. I am in very close contact with Steve as he is one of my closest friends and he checks his e-mail many times a day. I know that he fills the orders he receives in a very timely manner. I suggest you call him up n...

Harvey Rosenthal

The finest ring on and off a wand is R. Paul Wilson's One True Ring. It doesn't use a borrowed finger ring but nevertheless it is the most remarkable routine of a ring on and off a wand I have ever witnessed.

If you insist on using a borrowed ring, the routine in the Stars of Magic can't be beat.

Harvey Rosenthal

Richard,

This is a completely new set that just came out. You can see the contents of each DVD at Allan's website:

http://allanackerman.com/

as well as three performance movies from the set.

Harvey

Harvey Rosenthal

I recently had the pleasure of watching Allan Ackerman's latest 3-DVD set produced by A-1 MagicalMedia and the only way to describe it in a word is "sensational." The material performed and explained on the DVDs, with one exception, (Return to Ishtar, an outstanding coin routine that I hav...

Harvey Rosenthal

Frank Thompson demonstrated and taught me his handling of the Swindle Cut Aces at my home in Maryland in early 1971. I wrote up a complete description of the handling which I used for a number of years. I have not done Frank's handling in at least 15 years and have forgotten it. In addition, I have ...

Harvey Rosenthal

I heard from a friend in Seattle that he received his copy of Antinomy #12 earlier in the week. Has anyone else received a copy? If so, when? Where are you located?

Harvey

Harvey Rosenthal

Dustin,

No offense taken.

Harvey :)

Harvey Rosenthal

Yes, Percy "Find A Card" 2/15/65 printed on page 57 and shown in Table of Contents as being on page 51 (an error) is a Persi Diaconis effect. Bruce couldn't spell worth a damn.

Harvey :( :( :(

Harvey Rosenthal

Thanks Peter for the information on the EBay camera icon. Now everyone knows that I never sold or bought anything on EBay. I was well aware that Lance Pierce was selling Roger Klause's library for him. I obviously did not look that carefully at the EBay sales post for the Cervon book to note that th...

Harvey Rosenthal

I could be wrong, but from the looking at the eBay picture of the book and the camera icon off to the side, I suspect that the seller is Roger Klause who is selling off his magic library. He may have purchased the book for investment purposes to sell at a good profit...a smart idea. :cool:

Harvey Rosenthal

Kolor Killer is the most fooling and magical version of Roy Walton's classic Oil and Queens effect that I have come across. I really love the handling. I don't do many packet tricks but I sure am going to use Peter's superb version of the great Walton classic. :) :) :)

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