In this version of Three Card Monte, three very large cards are used. This is not the Al Baker version from Greater Magic (pp. 512-513). Instead, the cards have a common middle section that is slightly raised so that a double-ended card can slide under it and from one end to the other.
Because of this, any card can be shown as a Queen or as some other card.
Do I have the name correct for this version?
Background?
Thank you.
Cherchez La Femme
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Re: Cherchez La Femme
Thanks to Richard, see, "The Changing Card" and "The Unique Changing Card," pp. 220-225, in New Era Card Tricks by A. Roterberg, 1897.
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Re: Cherchez La Femme
Pat Page had a version where the frame was misindexed.
Mundus vult decipi -per Caleb Carr's story Killing Time
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Re: Cherchez La Femme
DeLand was the first to do that on the frame.
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Re: Cherchez La Femme
In "Pages From Patrick's Notebooks" Pat Page says it's a very old idea (i.e. the simple split face cards associated with Hofzinser, though they were around well before that) and says his contribution is adding the corner indices. The sliding panel versions in Roterberg (1897) and Conradi (1896) are all without indices, but Deland also had sliding panel cards with double indices.
"Cherchez la femme" is usually just a name for the three card trick.
"Cherchez la femme" is usually just a name for the three card trick.
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Re: Cherchez La Femme
Excellent, thank you.