(A takeoff on the ancient coin (glass disc) into a glass of water, this effect didn’t sound so forte, but when I saw it done, in between other card effects, I reversed my opinion. Ed.)

Five cards are taken from the pack’s top and shown in a fan. A spectator names one of the five. We shall presume it to be the Ace of Clubs. The Ace is covered with a handkerchief and held by the performer. A shake of the hank shows the card to have vanished. It is reproduced from one of the magician’s pockets.

Don’t grimace now. A duplicate of each of the five cards rests in different pockets. The five to be shown are on the deck’s top, left there during a dovetail shuffle, and not disturbed by a false cut. Then they are shown. The handkerchief is prepared by having a narrow and thin strip of wood (its length equal to the width of a card) stitched or stuck to the center. In covering the card with the hank the card is held edgeways and allowed to catch just underneath the wood. Then the wood is grasped through the hank and at the same time the card is allowed to drop on the rest of the pack which must be scattered on the table below. Taking a hanging corner with his free hand, the performer flips the hank and the card has vanished. “Did you see it go ? Did you see where I put it ? The Ace of Clubs, wasn’t it ? Look. Not one fast move in a deck. Keep it as a souvenir.”

The moves and actions have been clean. The hands have never approached the body. The freely named and vanished card is reproduced. That’s all there is, but its pointedness is awfully effective.