Victorian Okito Jumbo Card Restoration Frame

In 1909 Okito “Theo Bamberg” created an unusual apparatus that allows for the appearance of a card, one piece at a time, in the center of a frame attached to a beautiful stand.

I always loved the elegant look of this version of the Okito Card Restoration so I decided to recreate it using modern electronics but keeping the beautiful Victorian look. This Okito version was the first of its kind not to use spring-loaded flaps to accomplish the same effect. Most likely this version of the Card restoration Frame was to become the popular card frame by Richard Himber, known as the Fifth Dimension Card Frame.

A jumbo card is chosen, torn up and burned or made to vanish using a devils handkerchief  or any method. A n empty picture frame is shown and placed on an elegant Victorian stand. As the magician gestures at the frame the chosen card visibly restores itself piece by piece until the card is fully restored card and removed from the frame and handed out.