The Six-Hour Memorized Deck

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The Memorized Deck:

History of Memorized Stacks

1920...
1950...
1990...

The Nikola Stack

1920

The oldest memorized stack is that of Louis Nikola published in The Nikola Card System. In 1937, parts of this document shows up in Hugard's Encyclopedia of Card Tricks.

The Ireland Stack

1931

This stack by Laurie Ireland appears in Ireland Writes a Book.

The McCaffrey Stack

1938

William McCaffrey introduces his stack in Hilliard's Greater Magic.

The Steele Stack

1946

W. F. (Rufus) Steele publishes his stack in the context of his trick Bridge and Poker Demonstration in 50 Tricks You Can Do, You Will Do, Easy to Do.

The Marlo Stack

1958

Edward Marlo introduces The Memorized Stack in Faro Notes.

The Skinner Stack

1960s-1976

Michael Skinner develops two memorized stacks, one in the late 1960s, the other in 1976. Both are discussed in his book Classic Sampler published in 1996.

The Aronson Stack

1979

Simon Aronson's stack first shows up in his book A Stack to Remember, and in 1994 in Bound to Please.

The Aldrich Stack

1991

Steve Aldrich proposes a stack in his treatise The Stack Pack.

The Rix Stack

1995

Claude Rix proposes a stack in Claude Rix et ses 52 partenaires.

The Joyal Stack

1997

Martin Joyal devises a revolutionary breakthrough for memorized deck magic and introduces his stack in The Six-Hour Memorized Deck.

The Tamariz Stack

2000

Juan Tamariz publishes his stack in his two-volume set Sinfonia en Mnemónica Major. The English edition Mnemonica soon follows in 2004.

The Raven Stack

2000

Richard Raven presents his stack in Raven Magic's Memorized Deck Made Easy.

To be continued...

By Martin Joyal

Top of the stack

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.

If you didn’t visit his website recently, click here. Or ask to be on his mailing list

I thank you all for your patronage and I wish you the best.

Martin

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