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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Calvin Cole	One of Those Things	age and number (amount of change) are divined after calculation, might be "Calvert Cole" (see p. 61)	Also published here Pocket Presto (Calvin Cole, Karl Fulves, 1995)	Jan. 1935	The Jinx (Issue 4)	15	Numbers / Thought Reading and similar Coin / Effect Themes / Mental Stuff
Barbara Stanwyck	Bits of Presto	article touched in other room, performer knows, same with card selection		Jan. 1939	The Jinx (Issue 52)	359	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / No-Touch Locations Random Object / Miscellaneous
E. Leslie May	Pocket Presto	nice transposition presentation		Mar. 1939	The Jinx (Issue 54)	384	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Wallet
Jean Hugard	Hey! Presto!	selection appears in a glass held by performer		Jan. 1944	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 1 No. 8)	35	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Back Palm Cards / Effect Themes / Appearance & Production / Miscellaneous
Hen Fetsch	Pump Presto	"human pump" routine with milk pitcher instead of Foo Can		1946	Milk Pitcher Magic	24	Liquid / Miscellaneous Liquid / Milk Pitcher
Oscar Weigle	Poison Trick	chosen / poisoned glass is found, see also p. 849	Related to Given Goblet (Audley Walsh, Ken Allen, Gerald R. Blount, Leslie Spiewak, Mike Millet, Ken Beale, 1950) Perfume Presto! (Hen Fetsch, 1951) Variations It's My Move (Vic Koehler, 1952)	Sep. 1950	The Phoenix (Issue 211)	845	Glass / Miscellaneous Mental Magic / Principles / Stooge Mental Magic / Effects / Russian Roulette Theme (guns, nails etc.)
Audley Walsh, Ken Allen, Gerald R. Blount, Leslie Spiewak, Mike Millet, Ken Beale	Given Goblet	chosen / poisoned glass is found, several methods	Related to Poison Trick (Oscar Weigle, 1950) Perfume Presto! (Hen Fetsch, 1951)	Nov. 1950	The Phoenix (Issue 215)	858	Glass / Miscellaneous Mental Magic / Effects / Russian Roulette Theme (guns, nails etc.)
Hen Fetsch	Perfume Presto!	chosen / poisoned glass is found	Related to Given Goblet (Audley Walsh, Ken Allen, Gerald R. Blount, Leslie Spiewak, Mike Millet, Ken Beale, 1950) Poison Trick (Oscar Weigle, 1950)	Aug. 1951	The Phoenix (Issue 236)	943	Glass / Miscellaneous Mental Magic / Effects / Russian Roulette Theme (guns, nails etc.)
Thomas H. Bearden	Presto Chango	two coins change several times from silver to copper and back, copper/silver coin	Related to It's All an Illusion (Kevin Moran, 1986) Transpo Chango (Geoffrey Latta, 2017) Variations Presto Gallo (Mike Gallo, 1995) Mike's Opener: Presto Chango (Michael Skinner, 2000) Presto Chango (Johnny Thompson, 2018) Also published here Presto Chango (Thomas H. Bearden, 1988)	1952	Modern Coin Magic	245	Coin / Gaffed / Copper-Silver Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Transformation (not so visual)
James G. Thompson Jr.	Presto - The Coins Through the Table	four coins	Variations Coins Thru Table (Derek Dingle, 1973) Also published here Presto (James G. Thompson Jr., 1978)	1956	Top Secrets of Magic	120	Coin / Sleights / Lapping / as a Transfer Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Table / One by One
Jack Yeager	Presto Coin Stand	as John Yeager, coins can vanish or appear on stand under cover of handkerchief		1959	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1959)	16	Coin / Effect Themes / Vanish Routines / With Props / Miscellaneous Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / With Props / Miscellaneous
Tom Ransom	The Presto Press	four blank cards are printed on both sides Variations in effect	Variations More Faces of Eve (Tom Ransom, 1963)	Aug. 1963	Ibidem (Issue 29)	14	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Packet Tricks Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Printing & "Unprinting"
Tom Ransom	More Faces of Eve	four blank cards are printed on both sides	Inspired by The Presto Press (Tom Ransom, 1963)	Aug. 1963	Ibidem (Issue 29)	16	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Packet Tricks Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Printing & "Unprinting"
Howard Schwarzman	The Instantaneous Coin Change	visibly when tossed, pinch	Related to Vi-Sil-Co (Obie O'Brien, 1982) Variations The Really, Really Instantaneous Coin Change (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2010) The Really, Really Instantaneous Coin Change (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2017)	1966	The New Modern Coin Magic	361	Coin / Sleights / Spellbound & visual Changes Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Spellbound & visual Changes - Routines
Jack Bateman	Clock Vanish Idea	for the Presto Clock Vanish		1970	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1969-70)	28	Clock
Steve Spillman	Presto!	signed card is torn and burnt it appears restored in matchbox, see p. 149 for credits	Related to Letters (Bruce Cervon, 1970) Letters (Jon Racherbaumer, 1970) Letters (Hans van Baaren, Matt Corin, 1970) Letters (G. Hudson Krammer, 1970) Presto (Steve Spillman, 1973) Variations Here's a Tip (Del Dixon, 1971)	July 1970	Talisman (Vol. 1 No. 22)	101	Cards / Effect Themes / Torn & Restored / Destroyed & "Rediscovered"
Del Dixon	Here's a Tip	idea for Presto, using business cards	Inspired by Presto! (Steve Spillman, 1970)	Mar. 1971	Talisman (Vol. 2 No. 2)	11	Paper / Torn & Restored Business Cards
Derek Dingle	Coins Thru Table	four coins The First Coin (after Thompson Jr.) The Second Coin The Third Coin (after Vernon) The Last Coin Alternate Handling of the First Coin Second Alternate Handling see also p. 625 and p. 711	Inspired by Kangaroo Coins (Dai Vernon, 1946) Presto - The Coins Through the Table (James G. Thompson Jr., 1956) Variations Direct Lap (Karl Fulves, Derek Dingle, 1974)	Jan. 1973	The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 8 No. 3)	581	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Table / One by One
Steve Spillman	Presto	signed card is torn and burnt it appears restored in matchbox	Related to Presto! (Steve Spillman, 1970)	1973	"My Hands Can Be Yours"	74	Cards / Effect Themes / Torn & Restored / Destroyed & "Rediscovered"
Gerald Kosky	Presto	spectator cuts deck and remembers card, then four piles are dealt and spectator looks for pile with his card, word is spelled to find selection		1975	The Magic of Gerald Kosky	56	Cards / Principles / Spelling Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / No-Touch Locations
Charles T. Jordan	Presto Pass	thirty-two cards are counted off, spectator himself deals them into two piles and pockets one, two cards travel across	Variations "Presto Pass" Notes (Karl Fulves, 1992) Also published here Presto Pass (Charles T. Jordan, 1992)	1975	Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks	65	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) Across / Classic & Variations
Peter Crush	Peter's Presto Pop-In	English penny in tonic bottle by placing the coin on the neck and pushing it in		May 1978	Pabular (Vol. 4 No. 9)	575	Coin / Gaffed / Folding Coin / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Coin in Bottle
James G. Thompson Jr.	Presto	four coins	Also published here Presto - The Coins Through the Table (James G. Thompson Jr., 1956)	Dec. 1978	Intermagic (Vol. 5 No. 4)	118	Coin / Sleights / Lapping / as a Transfer Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Table / One by One
	The Presto Card Frame	card appears in frame		1978/76	More Classic Magic with Apparatus	114	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Frame Cards / Props & Apparatus / Miscellaneous
Daryl Martinez	The Chicago Conspiracy	Variation One of "Bommeranging Card", non-throwing method	Variations Presto Attracto Card II (Daryl Martinez, 1999)	1980	Secrets of a "Puerto Rican Gambler"	29	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Flashy Location
Joe Scott, Mike O'Dowd	The Poco Presto Dazzler	center of handkerchief is burnt and restored again		1984	Magic from the Parade #1	7	Silk & Handkerchief / Destroyed & Restored
Kevin Moran	It's All an Illusion	similar to "Presto Chango" (Bobo) with different switch	Related to Presto Chango (Thomas H. Bearden, 1952)	May 1986	Apocalypse (Vol. 9 No. 5)	1203	Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Miscellaneous Coin / Sleights / Switches / Simple Switches
Thomas H. Bearden	Presto Chango	two coins change several times from silver to copper and back, copper/silver coin	Also published here Presto Chango (Thomas H. Bearden, 1952)	1988	Magic with a Copper/Silver Coin	15	Coin / Gaffed / Copper-Silver
Karrell Fox	"Presto-Logo"	three jumbo cards vanish in silk, company logo on silk, trade show		1988	My Latest Book	131	Silk & Handkerchief / Devil's Handkerchief Cards / Jumbo Cards (exclusive) / Routines / Miscellaneous
Presto	Clean and Quick Coin Change			Mar. 1990	Apocalypse (Vol. 13 No. 3)	1758	Coin / Sleights / Spellbound & visual Changes
Giovanni Livera	Digit Deception	ring finger is torn off and restored, finger ring drops off	Also published here Presto Digitation (Giovanni Livera, 1999)	1992	Confessions of an Italian Magician	[16]	Propless / Body Mutilation Propless / Body Magic
Charles T. Jordan	Presto Pass	No. 173, thirty-two cards are counted off, spectator himself deals them into two piles and pockets one, two cards travel across	Also published here Presto Pass (Charles T. Jordan, 1975)	1992	Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks	212	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) Across / Classic & Variations
Karl Fulves	"Presto Pass" Notes	No. 174, handling variation, specific card travels from performer's to spectator's pocket	Inspired by Presto Pass (Charles T. Jordan, 1975)	1992	Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks	212	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Packet to Packet Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) Across / Classic & Variations
Martin Preston	Mother Knows Best	five mothers place a picture of their child in envelopes, they all find their correct envelope, numbered envelopes		Jan. 1993	Vibrations (Vol. 15 No. 7)	1	Photograph Paper / Envelopes / Marked Pen & Pencil / Nail Writer & Swami Mental Magic / Effects / Divination / by Spectator
Mike Gallo	Presto Gallo	two copper change into two silver coins, then one silver and one copper, eventually four chinese coins are shown	Inspired by Presto Chango (Thomas H. Bearden, 1952)	1995	The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 57)	1095	Coin / Gaffed / Copper-Silver Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Miscellaneous
Karrell Fox	The "Presto-Chang-O" Tube	tube to switch or produce silks		1995	Much Ado About Something	152	Silk & Handkerchief / Utilities & Sleights Silk & Handkerchief / Production & Appearance / With Props Apparatus / Changing & Switching Devices
Calvin Cole, Karl Fulves	Pocket Presto	No. 58, spectator counts his change and puts one coin into pocket, amount of change divined after some calculations	Also published here One of Those Things (Calvin Cole, 1935)	1995	Easy Magic	81	Numbers / Prediction & Sum-Divination Coin / Effect Themes / Mental Stuff
Earl "Presto" Johnson	Palm-to-Palm Change	one-handed		Oct. 1998	Onyx (Issue 5)	58	Coin / Sleights / Switches / Simple Switches
H. G. Cleveland	Cleveland's "Presto Fly" Card Trick	No. 31, Ace to Three of Hearts transposes with Four to Six of Clubs	Variations Supplementary Note (Karl Fulves, 1999)	1999	Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks	145	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Fake Indices Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Quartet transposes with Quartet
Karl Fulves	Supplementary Note	combination with Cleveland's "Canadian Wonder"	Inspired by Cleveland's "Presto Fly" Card Trick (H. G. Cleveland, 1999)	1999	Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks	145	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Fake Indices Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Quartet transposes with Quartet
Daryl Martinez	Presto Attracto Card II	two selections made (picked and peeked), so-called Presto Attracto Card is cut to, above and below are the two selections	Inspired by The Chicago Conspiracy (Daryl Martinez, 1980) Also published here New Millennium World Tour, p. 19	1999	Cyber Sessions	71	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Flashy Location Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Cards
Giovanni Livera	Presto Digitation	ring finger is torn off and restored, finger ring drops off	Also published here Digit Deception (Giovanni Livera, 1992)	Mar. 1999	Magic (Vol. 8 No. 7)	74	Propless / Body Mutilation Propless / Body Magic
Michael Skinner	Mike's Opener: Presto Chango	two coins change several times from silver to copper and back	Inspired by Presto Chango (Thomas H. Bearden, 1952)	Nov. 2000	Genii (Vol. 63 No. 11)	50	Coin / Gaffed / Copper-Silver Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Transformation (not so visual)
Al Baker	Presto! Blooey!	to vanish something using servante in table	Also published here The Sphinx, Vol. 31 No. 7, Sep. 1932	2003	The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Magazines)	642	Table & Servante
Earl "Presto" Johnson	Palm Change			Dec. 2005	Genii (Vol. 68 No. 12)	28	Coin / Sleights / Switches / Simple Switches
Earl "Presto" Johnson	Palm Change			July 2009	Genii (Vol. 72 No. 7)	44	Coin / Sleights / Switches / Simple Switches
Earl "Presto" Johnson	"Coin Go" Coin Pull		Also published here "Coin Go" Coin Pull (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2017)	Dec. 2010	Genii (Vol. 73 No. 12)	71	Coin / Effect Themes / Vanish Routines / Bare Handed Coin / Gaffed / Pull
Earl "Presto" Johnson	The One-Two-Three Coin Trick	coin slapped into ear, comes out of nose	Also published here The One-Two-Three Coin Trick (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2017)	Dec. 2010	Genii (Vol. 73 No. 12)	71	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Miscellaneous
Earl "Presto" Johnson	In-the-Hands Han Ping Chien		Also published here In-the-Hands Han Ping Chien (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2017)	Dec. 2010	Genii (Vol. 73 No. 12)	71	Coin / Sleights / Transfers / Han Ping Chien Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Hand to Hand / Normal
Earl "Presto" Johnson	Coin Assembly	on any surface	Also published here Coin Assembly (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2017)	Dec. 2010	Genii (Vol. 73 No. 12)	72	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Chink a Chink
Earl "Presto" Johnson	Presto's Half Dollar Assembly	on any surface	Also published here Four Half Dollar Assembly (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2017) The New Tops, Vol. 10 No. 6, 1970	Dec. 2010	Genii (Vol. 73 No. 12)	72	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Chink a Chink
Earl "Presto" Johnson	Presto's Palm Change	One-Hand Palm Change, credit information	Also published here Presto's Palm Change (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2017)	Dec. 2010	Genii (Vol. 73 No. 12)	73	Coin / Sleights / Switches / Simple Switches
Earl "Presto" Johnson	Jumbo Copper/Silver	penny transposes with silver dollar in spectator's hand, penny grows to silver dollar side in his hand	Also published here Jumbo Copper/Silver (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2017)	Dec. 2010	Genii (Vol. 73 No. 12)	74	Coin / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking Coin / Effect Themes / Transposition / Copper & Silver / with Spectator
Earl "Presto" Johnson	The Really, Really Instantaneous Coin Change	one-handed version	Inspired by The Instantaneous Coin Change (Howard Schwarzman, 1966) Also published here The Really, Really Instantaneous Coin Change (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2017)	Dec. 2010	Genii (Vol. 73 No. 12)	74	Coin / Sleights / Spellbound & visual Changes
Earl "Presto" Johnson	Palm to Palm Switch			2016	The Aretalogy of Vanni Bossi	168	Coin / Sleights / Switches / Simple Switches
Earl "Presto" Johnson	HPC into Spectator's Hand			2017	The Long Goodbye — Latta on Coins	115	Coin / Sleights / Transfers / Han Ping Chien
Geoffrey Latta	Gulliver's Transpo	penny transposes with dollar in spectator's hand which is shown to be a jumbo penny, dollar grows as well	Inspired by unpublished Earl "Presto" Johnson routine	2017	The Long Goodbye — Latta on Coins	174	Coin / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking Coin / Gaffed / Sticky Coin / Effect Themes / Transposition / Copper & Silver / with Spectator Coin / Effect Themes / Jumbo Coins
Geoffrey Latta	Transpo Chango	two transpositions, then both coins become copper, then silver, then normal, then another transposition	Inspired by Standup Copper/Silver (David Roth, Fred Kaps, 1981) Copper/Silver Deep Backclip Routine (with a Gaffed Coin) (David Roth, 1985) Related to Presto Chango (Thomas H. Bearden, 1952)	2017	The Long Goodbye — Latta on Coins	183	Coin / Gaffed / Copper-Silver Coin / Effect Themes / Transposition / Copper & Silver / Solo Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Transformation (not so visual)
Earl "Presto" Johnson	Palm Change			2017	The Long Goodbye — Latta on Coins	184	Coin / Sleights / Switches / Simple Switches
Earl "Presto" Johnson	"Coin Go" Coin Pull		Also published here "Coin Go" Coin Pull (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2010)	2017	Preserving Mystery	142	Coin / Effect Themes / Vanish Routines / Bare Handed Coin / Gaffed / Pull
Earl "Presto" Johnson	The One-Two-Three Coin Trick	coin slapped into ear, comes out of nose	Also published here The One-Two-Three Coin Trick (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2010)	2017	Preserving Mystery	142	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Miscellaneous
Earl "Presto" Johnson	The Naughty One-Two-Three Cigarette Vanish	cigarette slapped into butt, comes out from zipper		2017	Preserving Mystery	143	Cigarette & Cigar / Traveling
Earl "Presto" Johnson	In-the-Hands Han Ping Chien		Also published here In-the-Hands Han Ping Chien (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2010)	2017	Preserving Mystery	143	Coin / Sleights / Transfers / Han Ping Chien Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Hand to Hand / Normal
Earl "Presto" Johnson	Coin Assembly	on any surface	Also published here Coin Assembly (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2010)	2017	Preserving Mystery	144	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Chink a Chink
Earl "Presto" Johnson	Four Half Dollar Assembly	on any surface	Also published here Presto's Half Dollar Assembly (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2010) The New Tops, Vol. 10 No. 6, 1970	2017	Preserving Mystery	146	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Chink a Chink
Earl "Presto" Johnson	Presto's Palm Change	One-Hand Palm Change, credit information	Also published here Presto's Palm Change (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2010)	2017	Preserving Mystery	147	Coin / Sleights / Switches / Simple Switches
Earl "Presto" Johnson	Jumbo Copper/Silver	penny transposes with silver dollar in spectator's hand, penny grows to silver dollar side in his hand	Also published here Jumbo Copper/Silver (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2010)	2017	Preserving Mystery	148	Coin / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking Coin / Effect Themes / Transposition / Copper & Silver / with Spectator
Earl "Presto" Johnson	The Really, Really Instantaneous Coin Change	one-handed version	Inspired by The Instantaneous Coin Change (Howard Schwarzman, 1966) Also published here The Really, Really Instantaneous Coin Change (Earl "Presto" Johnson, 2010)	2017	Preserving Mystery	149	Coin / Sleights / Spellbound & visual Changes
Johnny Thompson	Presto Chango	two silver coins change to copper in performer's hand, then one back to copper, transposition with spectator	Inspired by Presto Chango (Thomas H. Bearden, 1952)	2018	The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 2)	43	Coin / Gaffed / Copper-Silver Coin / Effect Themes / Transposition / Copper & Silver / with Spectator Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Transformation (not so visual)

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