Jack Merlin: And a Pack of Cards Section One - Merlin's Master Manipulations

Merlin, Jack: Merlin's Master Manipulations
©1927 Jack Merlin, The Welworth Company, IA
Softcover, stapled manuscript, 8.5x11", 24 pages

©1928 Second Edition

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Comments: Section One (of three) of "and a Pack of Cards". Edited by A.W.C. Brumfield.
The other sections are Merlin at the Card Table, and Merlin's Master Miracles. These three manuscripts were later republished as a single volume "And a Pack of Cards"

Contents:

2 Foreword (Charles J. Maly)
3 Theory
3 Practice
4 Passes
4 - Improved Hermann
5 - Outjog Pass
5 - Side Slide Palm and Flesh Grip
6 The Pass As a Trick
6 - Top Turnover
6 - Pass Using Second Dealing
6 - Snap Pass
6 - Tip Over Change and Pass
7 Seconds and Bottoms
7 - Seconds
8 - Bottoms
8 - Glide
9 Tricks Based on Second and Bottom Dealing
9 - Four Ace Trick
9 - A Squence Effect
9 False Shuffles and Cuts
10 - False Shuffles and Cuts
10 - The Lace Thru False Shuffle
11 - False Cut
11 Tricks Based on False Shuffles and Cuts
11 - Reds and Blacks
11 - Another Red and Black Effect
12 Thumb and Finger Counting
12 - First Method
12 - Second Method
12 Tricks Based on Thumb and Finger Counting
12 - To Place a Selected Card in a Given Position in the Pack
13 - Vibrating Cards
14 - Throwing a Card in the Air and Catching in the Pack at a Chosen Number
14 Ink Card Used in Conjunction With Count Tricks
14 Changes
15 - The Slip-Slide Change
15 - Change Over Palm Change
16 - A Double Change
16 - Change a la Erdnase Bottom Palm
17 - Improved Change
17 - Under the Thumb Change
17 - Face to Face Change
18 - Change Making Palmed Cards Disappear
18 Crimps
18 - Finger Crimp From the Side
19 - Finger Crimp From the End
20 Trick Based on the Crimp
20 - The Royal Finders
21 Forcing
23 - A Sure Fire Force
23 - Mechanical Forcing Decks
24 Editorial Note (A.W.C. Brumfield)