Tenyo T-84 Card Frame
Shigeru Sugawara

1977

A photograph, playing card, or a business card—anything set into this frame can be made to vanish.  An elaborate gimmick is built within the frame, which performs the magic automatically. Very fine and convenient magic, requiring no setup and can be instantly repeated. A card is selected, shown to the audience, and torn into pieces. Card Frame is shown empty and placed face-down on your table. Spectator is given one of the torn pieces to hold while the Magi destroys the remaining pieces (or can burn up samel. The card frame is removed from the table, turned around, now revealing the chosen card, but missing one piece! Card is removed from the Card Frame, handed to the spectator, and upon examination, his little piece that he has been holding fits perfectly the rest of the card!