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The usual method of crimping a card is to bend a corner up or down. A refinement when using a crimped card as a key card is to place the crimp in the card by means of the method described in connection with the Gamblers’ Card Marking system. This type of crimp performs all the functions of the ordinary crimp and yet, no matter how carelessly it is made, it never can be made so heavily that it will be noticeable in the pack. More important, it can be sighted at the top of the pack, or in a table spread, exactly as the crimp is sighted in the marking system-by noting the break in the glaze of the card as the light strikes off the surface of the card—and the card is much more easily found than are cards marked by the usual method.

The crimp may be placed in a single corner, at diagonal corners or at both corners of one end. The last is the best practice since the pack cuts easily to the card and the position of the key card in the pack can be sighted in an instant should this be desirable.