APPEARING MAGIC KETTLE. Hamburg: Carl Willmann, ca. 1910. A nickel plated teakettle is produced from an empty foulard in the magician?s hands; drinks are then poured for the audience. Finely manufactured from spun brass and heavily plated. Height 10 ?? (open). Minor wear to plating, but good working condition. Rare; the only example we have encountered. See Salon de Magie, page 204. This kettle, originally owned by Charles Larson of New York, is the very prop featured in the first edition of Hilliard?s seminal work, Greater Magic (1938). Two modern master craftsmen, Rudiger Deutsch and John Gaughan, manufactured their own versions of the Willmann original in limited quantities, but this is the only vintage model of which we are aware.