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The Fold and One Cut Ladder
 
This page is being used to collect information about the history of the Fold and One Cut Ladder . Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

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1892

As far as I know this effect was first published in L'Illustration 2563 of 9th April 1892 and then subsequently included in volume 3 of 'La Science Amusante' by Tom Tit (real name Arthur Good) which was published in Paris by Librairie Larousse in 1893.

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The same effect appears:

1899

In 'Le Livre des Amusettes' by Toto, which was published in Paris by Charles Mendel in 1899.

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1918

As 'A Paper Ladder by a Single Cut' in 'Scientific Amusements' (an English translation of some of the material from volumes 2 and 3 of 'La Science Amusante' by Tom Tit) which was published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd in London in 1918.

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