Westgate Bowl Production Illusion

Rare & Vintage Magic Trick Collectible

The “Westgate Bowl Production” is a classic stage magic illusion where a magician produces a large bowl of water and live goldfish from a seemingly empty, folded-up tube and cloth-covered tray. Invented by Howard Westgate, the effect has been improved by magicians like Warren Hamilton, who created a widely recognized and definitive version, and was later produced by various magic apparatus manufacturers.

Westgate Bowl Production in used, but very collectible condition. 

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PHOTOS

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LABELS

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