Tabled False Cut?

[Richard Stokes]

Can anyone point me to an explanation (print or video) of this series of moves:
Deck is on the table. You cut roughly half and set this down. Then, as you pick up the bottom half of the deck, you accidentally on purpose leave a small packet behind on the table. You place the cards in your hand on top of the first cut, but stepped. Then you retrieve the left behind packet.
I'm not sure what happens next, but you end up either retaining a stock on top or nullifying the cut.
Thx

[Philippe Billot]

You can find this kind of false cut in Marlo Without Tears (1983), page 71-77 under the title Combi-Null Cuts.

[Bob Farmer]

I am continually amazed at how Philippe comes up with references. We may have to preserve his brain in a jar to ensure future rerences are available.

Here's a false cut I devised but it may be a reinvention. I was trying to improve the Ose Cut.

False Cut the deck as follows:
• Consider three positions, left, middle, right.
• Cut off the top third and drop it at the middle position.
• Cut half the remaining cards and drop them at the left position.
• Drop the remaining cards at the right position.
• Pick up the packet on the left, hop over the middle packet and drop it on the packet on the right.
• Pick up the middle packet and drop it on the packet on the right.

[Richard Stokes]

Can't find it in Marlo without Tears. The distinguishing feature is the deliberate 'accident' of leaving a small packet on the table as you lift the bottom half of the deck and 'complete' the cut.

[Denis Behr]

See the false cut by Henry Gavin / Arthur Finley: https://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/s ... 544,154969

[Philippe Billot]

Now, I remember the first time where I read this false cut, it's in Greater Magic (1938), page 176, False Cuts on the Table d)

It's attribute to Arthur Finley but Charles Jordan described it between 1916 and 1920 under the title Henry Garvin's False Cut.

Henry Garvin is a pseudo of Arthur Finley.

[Philippe Billot]

I am continually amazed at how Philippe comes up with references. We may have to preserve his brain in a jar to ensure future rerences are available.

No need to put a brain in a jar (like in old science fiction movies), a computer is enough.

[Richard Stokes]

Thx for these references