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141 entries in Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Right Hand / Bottom
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Das Kartenstehlen "Die Kartenschule von Carl Willmann"
elevated dealing position, left first finger pushes bottom card against right fingers into palm, as color change preparation
Related to May 1898
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 4 No. 5)
68
Second Method "Transformations. Two Hands"
left first finger pushes out bottom card to the front
Related toVariations 1902
The Expert at the Card Table
152
S. W. Erdnase Sixth Method "Transformations. Two Hands"
featuring unusual palm
Related toVariations 1902
The Expert at the Card Table
154
To Palm Cards from Bottom of Pack
1902
The Modern Conjurer
45
Dr. Reinhard Rohnstein Die maskierte Eskamotage mehrerer Karten "Dr. Rohnstein, B. A.-V.", "Schule der Magie"
bottom cards palmed into right hand, left first finger starts between the packets
 		Mar. 1904
Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 4 No. 3)
33
To Palm Cards From Bottom of Pack
1904
Modern Card Manipulation
29
Nate Leipzig Side Palm
1909
The Art of Magic
221
Jean Hugard The Hugard Palm
Variations 1936
Card Manipulations (Issue 5)
130
The Vertical Palm
1939
More Card Manipulations (Issue 2)
18
Face Card Palm, Right Hand two methods
 		1940
Expert Card Technique
51
Frederick Braue The Braue Bottom Palm
1940
Expert Card Technique
60
Frederick Braue Delaying the Braue Bottom Palm
1940
Expert Card Technique
61
Louis Zingone The Zingone Bottom Palm two methods (packet and full deck)
Related to 1940
Expert Card Technique
62
Trewey The Correct Method of Stealing the Card for color change
 		1940
Expert Card Technique
161
Slap Change
1942
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2
177
Push Up Color Change
1942
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2
178
Right Hand Bottom Palm brief
 		1943
Tricks and Sleights
11
Throw Change Palm
1943
Tricks and Sleights
12
Arthur H. Buckley Original Methods of Palming Cards from the Bottom of the Pack
1946
Card Control
58
Palming from the Bottom after a Riffle Shuffle
1946
Card Control
60
Arthur H. Buckley Buckley's Double Peek Location Shuffle and Palm
1946
Card Control
65
Arthur H. Buckley Bottom Palm of a Single Card
1946
Card Control
92
Victor Farelli Side-Steal and "Cut" Combination palming bottom card in right hand while cutting deck from hands to table
Variations Aug. 1946
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 4 No. 3)
239
Victor Farelli With the Fred Braue Invisible Pass side-steal and cut after pass
Inspired by Nov. 1946
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 4 No. 6)
267
The Side Steal Color Change
1948
The Card Expert Entertains
128
The Push-Up Steal as for a color change
 		1948
The Card Expert Entertains
139
Paul LePaul The Color-Change (Side Steal Method) side-steal method
Variations 1949
The Card Magic of Le Paul
39
Dai Vernon Packet Palm multiple, small packet
Also published here 1950
Stars of Magic (Vol. 6 No. 2)
94
Max Malini Malini's own Color Change Erdnase second method
Related to 1952
Stars of Magic (Vol. 11 No. 1)
154
Bottom Steal Color Change classic
 		1953
Card Man Stuff
11
Bottom Steal
1954
Handbook Of Card Sleights
24
Edward Marlo Pivot Bottom Steal small packet handling
 		1956
Action Palm
36
Jerry Andrus Another Ribbon Palm perpendicular card under spread palmed
 		1956
Andrus Deals You In
70
Edward Marlo Color Steal
1957
Side Steal
18
Edward Marlo Almost Standard variation on "Color Steal"
 		1957
Side Steal
19
Edward Marlo The Finger Flutter four methods for avoiding the left hand finger flutter
 		1957
Side Steal
21
Dai Vernon Square-Up Palm as small packet is squared, all but one are stolen into palm
 		1960
More Inner Secrets of Card Magic
67
Cliff Green Pivot Palm multiple cards
 		1961
Professional Card Magic
40
Cliff Green Right Hand Bottom Palm brief
 		1961
Professional Card Magic
76
Cliff Green Coptomania Steal palming cards off double or multiple card packet
Also published here 1961
Professional Card Magic
84
Nate Leipzig Colour Change with description of palming bottom card in right hand
 		1963
Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig
22
Nate Leipzig Side Slip as in the color change
 		1963
Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig
25
Color Change card stolen towards front from back
 		1969
Wonderful Routines of Magic
101
Harvey Rosenthal Multiple Bottom Palm into right hand
 		Nov. 1970
Epilogue (Issue 10)
78
Roger Smith The FFF Side Slip palming bottom card into right hand during FFF, or replacing it on top
 		1970
The FFF Control System
10
Roger Smith K-S Slip Palm small packet spread, bottom card from a double palmed into right hand
 		1971
The K-S Control System
5
Steal from small packet
 		1972
Million Dollar Card Secrets
65
Dai Vernon, Paul Fox Vernon - Fox Card Steal From Packet Of Cards No. 59, packet held at corner, card palmed, skinning, cryptic
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
18
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Color Change Side Steal No. 226, picking off the pip change as cover for next bottom palm
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
56
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Note No. 242, fan cover after bottom palm into right hand
Related to 1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
61
Nate Leipzig Leipzig's Side Steal No. 682, left thumb at side of deck and not on top
 		1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
185
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Bottom Palm (One-Hand Fan Steal)
1974
The Magic of Tenkai
56
Jerry Mentzer Swivel Cut Palm
1975
New and Novel Knowledge
21
Bottom Palm
1976
Now you see it, now you don't!
23
José de la Torre Improved Palm Color Change first finger of left hand pushed out bottom card into right palm
 		1978
Real Magic
47
José de la Torre Side Steal Color Change
1978
Real Magic
56
Small Packet Bottom Steal packet fanned out at same time
 		1979
The Chronicles (Issue 13)
1188
Kevin Davie Palm Steal while cutting the deck
 		Apr. 1980
Pabular (Vol. 6 No. 4)
834
Dai Vernon Packet Palm brief
Also published here 1980
Das Ascanio Seminar — Graz 1980
29
Karl Fulves Placement Palm multiple card with cutting action
 		1981
Side Steal
60
Looy Simonoff Two Spread Bottom Palms: Spread-Pass Bottom Palm
1982
Best of Friends
360
Meir Yedid The Pressure Fan Cop
1982
Incredible Close-Up Magic
111
Multiple Bottom Palm to Right Hand with small packet
 		Dec. 1983
The Collected Almanac (Vol. 2 No. 16)
148
Charlie Miller Alignment Move Palm small packet
 		Dec. 1983
The Collected Almanac (Vol. 2 No. 16)
151
Edward Marlo Convincing Control Bottom Palm see steps 8 and 9
 		1984
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5
110
Edward Marlo Side Squaring Bottom Palm for one card, see also page 156 for handling from center
 		1984
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5
146
Edward Marlo Added Notes variation of techniques on page 135
 		1984
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5
159
Multiple Bottom Palm
1984
Fork Full of Appetizers — Book 2
10
Geoffrey Latta Color Change Palm
Also published here 1985
The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 4
106
Bottom Steal Color Change
1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 3)
29
Frederick Braue Braue Bottom Palm for small packet
 		1985
The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 4)
8
Larry Jennings Mechanical Palm
1986
The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings
142
Darwin Ortiz Ortiz Packet Palm from a small packet
 		1988
Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table
104
Larry Jennings Mechanical Palm
1988
The Cardwright
75
Dai Vernon The Contortion Palm
1989
The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 3
3
Joel Siegel Small Packet Palm-Off
May 1989
Apocalypse (Vol. 12 No. 5)
1642
Ori Ashkenazy No Get-Ready Color Change
June 1989
Apocalypse (Vol. 12 No. 6)
1650
Small Packet Palm bottom card into right hand
 		1989
The Black & White Trick
68
Nate Leipzig Color Change
1989
Randy Wakeman Presents
118
Gary Kurtz Multiple Palm small packet
 		1990
Unexplainable Acts
59
Harry Lorayne Double Edged bottom card either in right hand classic palm or left hand cop, fan cover
 		1990
Trend Setters
115
Patrick Page The Delayed Action Palm bottom card prepared as deck is held in right-hand end grip
Also published here 1990
Pages From Patrick's Notebook
42
Frederick Braue Braue Bottom Palm
1991
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 1
101
Bottom Palm brief
 		1991
Carneycopia
13
Vanni Bossi V.B. Variation on Kaps Handling of the LePaul's Color Change Using the Side Steal from Bottom
Inspired by 1991
Escorial 1991 — The Erdnase Year
7
Patrick Page Die verzögerte Action-Palmage bottom card prepared as deck is held in right-hand end grip
Related toAlso published here Nov. 1991
Intermagic (Vol. 16 No. 3)
116
T. Page Wright Color Change Steal choreography
 		1991
Page Wright's Manuscript
114
Dai Vernon Packet Palm brief
Also published here 1992
La Magia de Ascanio — Vol. 6
60
Sid Fleischman Bottom Stealing No. 2, left thumb action
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
190
Side Steal
1995
Natural Selections
98
Larry Jennings Small-Packet Mechanical Palm
Winter 1996
The Looking Glass (Issue 1)
32
Bottom Steal
1996
Classic Sampler
33
Allan Ackerman A Fan Bottom Palm
Also published here 1997
I Can't Believe it's Not All Cards
42
Chris "Doc" Dixon The Dixon Palm two cards from small packet, while turning packet over
 		1997
Everything Is Funnier with Monkeys
86
Helge Thun Action Fan Palm card is palmed while closing the fan
Also published here 1998
The Book
108
The Right-hand Bottom Palm
1998
Card College — Volume 3
717
Larry Jennings The Right-hand Bottom Palm of Multiple Cards
1998
Card College — Volume 3
720
Dave Campbell, Larry Jennings Bottom Palm to Right Hand also for multiple cards
 		1998
Five Times Five — Scotland
28
Jack Avis Double Undercut Bottom Palm into right hand
 		1998
Vis à Vis
32
Ellis Stanyon Palming Cards with Rearward Colour-Change Sleight No. 6
Variations 1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
241
Karl Fulves Supplementary Note clarification
Inspired by 1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
241
Ellis Stanyon Palm for One Card with Forward Colour-Change Sleight No. 7
Variations 1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
241
Karl Fulves Supplementary Note clarification
Inspired by 1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
242
Chuck Smith Option Pass also as a color change or small packet palm from bottom
Variations 2000
Tools Of The Trade
47
Multiple Bottom Palm to Right Hand with small packet
 		Nov. 2000
Genii (Vol. 63 No. 11)
58
Alignment Move Palm small packet
 		Nov. 2000
Genii (Vol. 63 No. 11)
59
Marc DeSouza Swing Cut Side Steal bottom card into right hand, directly after swing cut
 		2001
DeSouza's DeCeptions
42
Mark Aspiazu Improved Side Steal palming bottom cards into right hand, Herrmann pass action
 		Mar. 2002
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 10)
14
Euan Bingham On The Erdnase Change on the Second Transformation
 		2003
Free From Filler
22
S. W. Erdnase Erdnase Bottom Palm brief
 		2003
Tricks
155
Tony Giorgio On the Color Steal
May 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 5)
54
Dave Campbell Bottom palm - to right hand single or multiple card, as in Jennings's palm
Inspired by 2004
The Dave Campbell Legacy
411
Packet Bottom Palm palming the bottom three of four cards in the right hand
 		Nov. 2005
Antinomy (Vol. 1 No. 4)
44
Paul Cummins MC Hammer Change card stolen from bottom into kind of assisted rear palm with spread fingers
 		2005
Channel One (Vol. 4 No. 14)
20
Undercut Bottom Palm in Right Hand
2007
Best of Friends — Volume III
253
Bottom Card Steal while closing fan
 		2008
The Rice Papers
18
Derek DelGaudio Plumber Palm top, center or bottom card from overhand shuffle
Also published here
  • "Only Notes" (2008, Derek DelGaudio)
 2011
If An Octopus Could Palm
72
Gabi Pareras Empalme al voltear card is palmed while deck is turned-over sideways
 		2011
El Manuscrito (Vol. 4 No. 15)
436
Side Steal Palm brief
 		2012
Lessons in Card Mastery
270
S. W. Erdnase Palm Change as Color Change Steal
2013
Confident Deceptions
29
Doug Edwards Fan-Tastic Palm bottom card is palmed into right hand, after a fan
 		2013
Nukes
5
Doug Edwards The Spread Change palm of card after deck is turned over, as a color change
 		2013
Nukes
7
Darwin Ortiz Pivot Palm small packet, brief
 		2014
Notes From A Mechanic
13
Peter McKinnon Dragonfly 3.0 card jumps from deck to fingertips, featuring a palm
Related to 2014
Burn After Reading
5
Bottom Palm from small packet
 		2014
A Fuego Lento — Volumen I
70
Bottom Palm in right hand
 		2018
Seminarheft
35
Bottom Steal Palm
2018
Sobre Magia de Cerca
19
Max Malini Malini's Own Color Change Erdnase second method
Related to 2022
Max Malini
259
Helge Thun Action Fan Palm card is palmed while closing the fan
Also published here 2022
Seminah 2
43
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Bottom Steal Subtleties two small finesses to help make Bottom Steal indetectable, also applicable to a Side Steal
 		2022
Vallarino
36
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Multiple lateral palm obtaining multiple cards off bottom of packet into right lateral palm
 		2022
Vallarino
61
Side-steal of bottom card to full palm brief, see also p. 203, p. 242 and p. 255
 		2022
Vallarino
124
Bottom palm from packet side-steal into right palm, brief
 		2022
Vallarino
203
Geoffrey Latta The Latta Color Steal as deck is placed in left hand, three options after the palm:
  • Right Hand to Side with Card in Classic Palm
  • To Make a Color Change
  • Turning the Deck Face up
Also published here 2022
52 Farewells — Latta on Cards
45
Geoffrey Latta The Fingernail Multiple Bottom Palm
2022
52 Farewells — Latta on Cards
87
Cliff Green Coptomania Steal palming cards off double or multiple card packet
Also published here 2022
52 Farewells — Latta on Cards
258
Nate Leipzig, Michael Vincent Bottom Steal Handling
Nov. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 11)
31
Helge Thun Action Fan Palm card is palmed while closing the fan
Also published here 2023
Seminah 3
55
Allan Ackerman A Fan Bottom Palm
Also published here 2024
All In — Volume 2
35
Helge Thun Action Fan Palm card is palmed while closing the fan
Also published here 2025
Evidence of a Well Spent Life
29
Robert Jägerhorn Side Steal Color Change
2025
Those Little Things and a Bird
18