Si Stebbins stack

But here we start with A♣ and arrange the deck in the following order reading from top left to bottom right: The value of a card selected from a deck in Si Stebbins order can be determined by the card immediately preceding or following it.

For instance, if the card on the bottom is the 9♦, the performer will add three to the numeric value making 12 (Queen) and move to the next suit in the order (Clubs).

[5] The system was originally published in the United States in Boston or New York City around 1898 by Si Stebbins (real name William Coffrin), in a pamphlet titled Si Stebbins' Card Tricks And The Way He Performs Them and a later edition Card Tricks And The Way They Are Performed.

[6] Despite contrary claims, Stebbins maintained that the stack was his invention: ...I am the ORIGINATOR of this system for doing these tricks, and the first Vaudeville Artist to present them in the better class theaters of the United States.

Howard Thurston claimed to have invented the system in his 1903 book Howard Thurston's Card Tricks referring to it as "The 'Thurston' System of Expert Card Manipulation" and thanking Stebbins "...for many valuable suggestions and ideas with regard to its conception.