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Throw-Out Cards
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Cards that are usually printed with the performer's picture
on one side and with advertisements or playing card backs on the other
side. They are around the same size and shape as playing cards. They
were often distributed by the performer in the course of a demonstration
of card throwing.
Card Throwing - The hurling of standard playing cards, for
speed, distance, accuracy, or a combination of these. It was a
popular feat with magicians of the past; many performers threw out
specially-printed souvenir cards.
Some of the information shown above comes from...
The Encyclopedia of Magic And Magicians
By T.A. Waters
Copyright © T.A. Waters
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