Donald Holmes

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Donald Holmes	Foreword			1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	1	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Donald Holmes	Effect No. 1	four chosen cards are placed in four envelopes and mixed, performer divines all cards in the envelopes		1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	6	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Paper / Envelopes / Marked
Donald Holmes	Effect No. 1. The Prediction	card chosen by elimination process with packets, it's predicted in an envelope		1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	8	Cards / Principles / Equivoque Cards / Principles / One Way / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card
Donald Holmes	The "Self-Shifting" Pack	First Method (long-short Menetekel) Second Method (no short cards but one-way backs, "improved method") Suggestions (having multiple cards selected and bringing the duplicates to top)		1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	9	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / How to Gaff and Peel... Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Menetekel Cards / Principles / One Way / Miscellaneous
Donald Holmes	Effect No. 1	card chosen, performer divines it and it travels to pocket		1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	12	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Menetekel Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card
Donald Holmes	Effect No. 2	three cards chosen and replaced, deck put in hat and mixed (lateral mixing motion), performer removes selections from hat one by one		1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	12	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Menetekel Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Sense of Touch / Card Identity
Donald Holmes	The "Self-Forcing" Pack	To Force One Card (Svengali deck) To Force Two Cards (triples in which the force cards are cut at different corners) To Force Three Cards (like previous one with no indifferent cards)		1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	13	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Svengali Principle / Svengali Deck
Donald Holmes	Holmes' "Mystery" Problem	card chosen from Svengali deck, deck dealt into two piles and card replaced in indifferent half, multiple deals to control card to seventeenth position, card and position are predicted, clean-up switch of half the deck		1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	19	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Twenty-One Card Trick Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Number Prediction Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Cards / Sleights / Switches / Deck & Thick Packet Switches / In context of Routine Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Svengali Principle / Svengali Deck
Donald Holmes	Holmes' Four Ace Trick			1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	22	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Classic Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Peek Pairs (glued at bottom)
Donald Holmes	The "Triangle" Trick - Second Method	thought-of cards across from one half to the other, halves tied with ribbons, half the deck peek cards	Related to New Precipitation (Ellis Stanyon, 1999)	1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	26	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) Across / Thought Cards Across Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Peek Pairs (glued at bottom)
Donald Holmes	Another "Marvelous Coincidence"	two decks, number counted to in one deck and dealing stopped in other deck, the cards match	Inspired by "A Card Mystery" (Donald Holmes, contributed to Magic) Related to Coincidence (Donald Holmes, 1937) Also published here Another Marvelous Coincidence (Donald Holmes, 1937)	1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	27	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers) Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Miscellaneous
Donald Holmes	Card on Glass	card on top of glass is invisible for audience when they look on edge	Also published here Card on Glass (Donald Holmes, 1937) Card on Glass (Donald Holmes, 1937)	1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	28	Cards / Sleights / Additions / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Hold Out / Table
Donald Holmes	Double-Dealing Placement Force	handling in which a card is added		1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	28	Cards / Sleights / Force / Re-Deal Force
Donald Holmes	A New Chameleon Pack	deck shown mixed, then cut in half, one half shown all red and other all black	Related to A New Protean or Chameleon Pack (Ellis Stanyon, 1999)	1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	29	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Divided Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / Oil & Water / Whole Deck
Donald Holmes	A New X-Ray Trick	stacked deck, multiple cards removed, half shuffled, cards divined one by one and each removed		1913	Tricks With Prepared Cards	30	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge multiple Card Location Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Memorized / Full Deck
Donald Holmes	Coincidence	card added from top of glass	Related to Another "Marvelous Coincidence" (Donald Holmes, 1913)	1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	70	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Key Card Principles Cards / Effect Themes / Do as I Do / Two Decks
Donald Holmes	Card on Glass	card on top of glass is invisible for audience when they look on edge	Also published here Card on Glass (Donald Holmes, 1913)	1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	70	Cards / Sleights / Additions / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Hold Out / Table
Donald Holmes	Another Marvelous Coincidence	two selections from two packs match, uncredited	Also published here Another "Marvelous Coincidence" (Donald Holmes, 1913)	1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	78	Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Miscellaneous
Donald Holmes	Card on Glass	card on top of glass is invisible for audience when they look on edge	Also published here Card on Glass (Donald Holmes, 1913)	1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	78	Cards / Sleights / Additions / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Hold Out / Table
Donald Holmes	Ne Plus Ultra	five cards controlled to known positions via dealing procedure		1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	178	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Cards
Donald Holmes	The Holmes Spindle	little mechanism that's attached to rim of glass		1938	Greater Magic	404	Cards / Principles / Thread Work Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Thread
Donald Holmes	Forcing Deck	long-short glued pairs with loose force card in between		July 1939	The Jinx (Issue 58)	422	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Svengali Principle / Other Applications & Handling of Long-Short-Deck Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Peek Pairs (glued at bottom)
Paul Fleming (reviewer)	The Magic Art	by Donald Holmes		1944	The Paul Fleming Book Reviews — Volume I	29	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Donald Holmes	Die zerrissene Karte	card cut into four pieces and one piece is freely selected, other three pieces vanish and card is restored in envelope		1947	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 8 No. 3&4)	13	Cards / Effect Themes / Torn & Restored / Destroyed & "Rediscovered"
Donald Holmes	Fish from Empty Hands			Dec. 1948	Grant's Inner Circle Magazine (Vol. 1 No. 3)	13	Animal / Fish Hand Gimmicks / False Finger
Donald Holmes	The Tea Chests of Wang Foo	handkerchiefs vanish and appear inside candle, then placed inside one of three chests, covered with a tube and handkerchiefs travel from chest to chest		1978/76	More Classic Magic with Apparatus	235	Candle / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Traveling / Candle Silk & Handkerchief / Traveling / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Traveling / Glass Apparatus / Miscellaneous
Karl Fulves	Oil And Water	credit information on the plot, Hofzinser, excerpt from "Tricks with Prepared Cards" (Donald Holmes, 1913)		1983	Worknotes on Brainwave	104	Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / Oil & Water / One Back Color
Ellis Stanyon	New Precipitation	No. 54, "Third Method", with Dr. Ford B. Rogers's peek pairs	Related to The "Triangle" Trick - Second Method (Donald Holmes, 1913) The Spook Card (Charles T. Jordan, 1920) New Precipitation (Ellis Stanyon, 1999)	1999	Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks	187	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) Across / Thought Cards Across Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Peek Pairs (glued at bottom)
Ellis Stanyon	A New Protean or Chameleon Pack	No. 57, deck shown mixed, then cut in half, one half shown all red and other all black	Related to A New Chameleon Pack (Donald Holmes, 1913) Supplementary Note (Karl Fulves, 1999)	1999	Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks	189	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Fake Indices Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / Oil & Water / Whole Deck

29 entries for Donald Holmes