Center Tear

9 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Center Tear
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
U. F. Grant Fire Reading center tear, center piece sticks to card
 		Mar. 1949 Grant's Inner Circle Magazine (Vol. 1 No. 5 & 6) 10
Tommy Vanderschmidt In the Suit thought of card is reversed, spectator selects a paper with a suit and writes value inside
 		1953 The Phoenix 251 — 300 (Issue 287) 1147
Art Spring Divining Cup numbered slips with information written by spectators in cup, performer divines contents, slips secretly burned via flash paper
 		Oct. 1970 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 5 No. 12) 367
Joseph K. Schmidt Center Tear spectator writes card in center of square paper, cut into four pieces and puzzled together so a center section is missing, can be presented as pseudo center tear, see p. 527 for comment by L. Vosburgh Lyons
Inspired by Feb. 1971 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 6 No. 4) 398
Al Mann The Mag-Eye Move while performer tears billet, message is read, with variation
 		1981 Phanta-Graphs 13
Edward Marlo Tears Without Tears instant Reading
 		1983 Marlo without Tears 158
Edward Marlo Tears Without Tears 2 instant Reading
 		1983 Marlo without Tears 312
Jas Jakutsch JaJa Center Tear no-steal technique
 		1999 Completely Mental — Vol. 1 5
Paul Curry Alias Sherlock Holmes center tear presentation, revealing the word by analyzing the burnt paper
 		2001 Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond 143