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Drop Rings "trick", vintage

tomjolly 119

Item Location: United States

$9.00

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Bidder	Amount	Date
Stanminn2 37	$9.00	08.02.2025 04:36:34
jbrown23 4	$7.00	08.02.2025 04:35:52
Stanminn2 37	$5.00	08.02.2025 04:35:52
jbrown23 4	$3.00	07.02.2025 23:06:17
Stanminn2 37	$1.00	06.02.2025 04:01:36

Description

Drop Rings, as advertised in a Western Puzzle Works catalog, item 12. Estimate over 100 yrs. old. This, technically, isn't really a puzzle, though it could be tricky to figure out how to make it work. When manipulated correctly, it produces an illusion of one ring water-falling down the chain from top to bottom. I managed to do it a few time, but I'm still not sure why it works the way it does. It's a very old trick. I imagine some blacksmith making chain-mail discovered this effect by accident.

The Western Puzzle Works catalog page is shown only as a reference. It is not part of this auction.

The chain is about 8" long, and each ring is 1/2" wide. I assume it's steel.

US shipping is $5.85, international is $20.60, or shipping is free if you're winning one of the other auctions.

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$79.00

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Drop Rings "trick", vintage

tomjolly 119

$9.00

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Two Pi - Benedetti and Fuller

Three Steve Winter 3D wire-frame mazes

It's a Hardly - Rocky Chiaro

Fireplug variant- Marcel Gillen