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Torn and Restored Card

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Torn and Restored Card is a card routine where a playing card torn into pieces and then restored. There are many variations and many techniques.

Copperfield performed it with a baseball card on one of his television specials. He used a version by Chris Kenner called Torn Asunder, which was advertised but not considered to ever have been actually released.

Questions

First ever published torn and restored card?

First published routine to use a signed card?

First published routine to use only one card?


Variations

  • Ultimate Rip-off by Paul Harri in Art of Astonishment uses only one card. First published in Supermagic (1977)
  • Reformation by Guy Hollingworth
  • Hoodwink by Ben Harris and his Wink Wink in Quarks & Quirk
  • The Cardboard contortionist by Jay Sankey - a two signed cards are torn and restored.
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