This bank was made in Japan, right after World War ll, during the occupation, around 1948. It is a further manifestation of a mid to early 19th century tradition of hiding documents and money in boxes with "tricks" and a multiplicity of "moves" to unlock a box or trunk.Stamped Tanaka patent 918Needs some glue on non moving sides
A tricky puzzle: you have to push, pull, rotate the rods to extracts all the rods and solve the puzzle. The small dots on the rods are here to help for the solution
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