Bonneteau

The bonneteau is a play of money, about the Escroquerie, proposed on the run on the markets and in the public places. It is practiced since the 14th century at least in France, and still in many countries, is named German Kümmelblättchen in , Find the Lady in British English, and Three Card Monte in English of the United States, with its copy Lituanien trijų kortų assembles , טריקשלושתהקלפים in Hebrew modern.

Means and material

Actors:

a manipulator
several small drainage canals (accessory)
of the naive idlers and players

The material:

three charts - two black kings and the lady of heart
a shelf - or a large paperboard which can be used as table

Place:

the street

Description

The play is done with two chart S black and a red chart, generally the spade and kings of clubs and the lady of heart ( to find the lady ). The Master of the play handles the three charts and request with the player of miser and to discover the red chart. If this one succeeds, it receives the double of its setting; in the contrary case, it gives up it.

The manipulator holds two charts in one with its hands and shows where they are placed. The charts are held between the inch the index and the major one of a hand and the third in the other hand. The red chart (lady of heart) is in the hand holding two charts and placed so that it must logically be deposited in first. The third chart is only used to distract the attention. The manipulator makes several demountings of the charts and the lady is immediately identifée in the center… But is only to create confidence and to better deceive.

The manipulator can move the charts right to give the exchange of a wrongfully excessive and awkward handling. The turn arrives when the money is posed on the plate of play. The manipulator starts again the charts, but it is not any more the chart of the red lady only it lets escape in first, but the other, which reasonably does not appear possible. If the punter knows the turn, it will not gain like that, since small drainage canals are in the vicinity and intervene to recover the setting…

The idler, put in confidence by easy profits at the beginning, then does not hesitate to bet large and it is at this time that the swindler into practice puts the technique explained above, making lose blow its " client".

The Master of the play - called bonnetor formerly - is a professional assisted of accomplices (or accomplices ) - sometimes called barons - charged with folding back the customers, to make the guet, to even play the large arm to calm the losers revanchists or to recover the profits of " small malins" having had wind of the easy way explained higher. Partly because of this organization dishonest person, the bonneteau is declared illegal in the majority of the countries.

In its book cheatings of the Greeks revealed. Art to gain with all the plays. (Paris, 1861, p.47 with 51), Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin makes a description of this fraud, without however giving him name. It indicates that this play is interdict on the public place, mentions a Jeu of dice in the same way standard, known as thimble range (set of dice) practiced in England by swindlers, said gamblers .

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