The Six-Hour Memorized Deck
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The Memorized Deck:
History of Card Systems
- 1500...
- 1900...
- 1940...
- 1980...
- 1990...
- 2000...
The Galasso System
1593
Horacio Galasso describes the increment-of-four progression in his Giochi de Carte, published in Venice.
The Cardozo System
1612
Galasso's work was soon translated into French, and was almost certainly the source Gaspar Cardozo de Sequeira used in his 1612 Portugese book Thesouro de Prudentes.
The Eight Kings System
1805
A quite old card system. Traces of it in English litterature are found in The Expositor by Wiliam Frederick Pinchbeck.
The Si Stebbins System
1898
Si Stebbins popularizes the Galasso System and publishes it, under the pen name of WM. Vino, in WM. Vino's Card Tricks.
The Howard Thurston System
1901
Howard Thurston takes the Si Stebbins's System, gives it his name and published it in Howard Thurston's Card Tricks.
The Stanyon System
1913
Ellis Stanyon describes a card system in the July issue of his periodical Magic, without claiming the credit for himself or anyone else. Later this system will be “re-invented” by Jack Yates in 1978, by Boris Wild in 1996, and Charles Gauchi in 2002.
The Esscee Prearranged Deck
1947
Stanley Collins comes out with his system in his book A Conjuring Melange.
The Joseph System
1950
Eddie Joseph explains his system in Fifteen Minutes with the Joseph Card System.
The Harding System
1962
Bart Harding develops an ingenious card system.
Jack's Pack
1978
Without knowing it, Jack Yates reinvents the system published by Stanyon in 1913. He publishes it in his book Jack's Pack.
The Cornelius System
1978
John A. Novak publishes The John Cornelius Card System.
The Breakthrough Card System
1983
Richard Osterlind presents his system in Richard Osterlind's Breakthrough Card System.
The Bracelet Stacks
1987
Leo Boudreau publishes three systems in Leo Boudreau's Spirited Pasteboards.
The No Memory Card Stack
1988
Harry Riser proposes his system in the November issue of M-U-M magazine.
The Lusthaus Card System
1993
Robert Lusthaus publishes his system in The Lusthaus Card System.
The Memory Deck
1995
Lewis Jones publishes his system in a small manuscript.
The Reymond System
1995
Patrick Reymond (with the help of Vincent Godbout) describes his system in Notes de Conférence.
The Wild System
1996
It's now the turn of Boris Wild to take the system published by Stanyon in 1913 and republish it. It first appeared in his French book Card Appeal in 1996. Later, in 2001, he publishes it again as The Boris Wild Instant Memorized Deck in his book The Complete Boris Wild Marked Deck.
Richard's Stack
1996
Richard Uhrich releases his system on Steve Bryan's internet web site The Little Egypt Gazette.
The Berg Stack
1997
Harvey A. Berg publishes his stack in his book Sleight of Mind.
The QuickStack
2002
Based on Harvey Berg's approach, Doug Dyment publishes his system in his book Mindsight. The system is also known as The Half-Hour Memorized Deck.
The 15 Minutes No Mnemonic Memorized Card System
2002
For the third time, the system published by Stanyon in 1913 is re-invented. It is now the Australian magician Charles Gauci who does so and includes it in his Reputation Makers: USA Tour Lecture Notes 2002.
To be continued...
By Martin Joyal
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I have been selling used magic books since 1994. During these 28 years, I was in contact with great customers, some of which with whom I had warm communications. It has always been a pleasure to supply books to those looking for them.
It’s now time for me to turn the page.
Our book inventory was moved to Bradbury Books, Kansas City, Missouri. The owner, Dan, has been selling new and used magic books since 1993, and offers a tremendous service to magicians.
Each week or so, his popular reverse auction goes on. New titles are added on a regular basis.
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