Collins Aces (Swain's handling of this classic routine)

The cards are well mixed

there are no stooges

The invention of the Color-Changing Knives is usually credited to illusion designer Walter Jeans and as the effect began to enter the literature of magic in the 1930's

which as a “spiritualistic performance can be excellently staged either as an opening act or as the conclusion of a stage magic show

World's Greatest Magic: Oil & Water - (DVD) Ellis Collins Aces (Swain's handling ofThe basic plot of the card effect that we know today as Oil and Water can be traced back to the 1940s and a Walter Gibson trick from the pages of The Jinx. It was Ed Marlo who attached the name "Oil and Water" to the effect (in addition to most likely creating the greatest number of methods for the effect.) The premise of the trick is maddeningly simple: black and red playing cards, usually in small packets, continually separate despite the magician's