Ring Box, IPP29 (2009) Exchange Puzzle by Gary Foshee

Gary Foshee was a luminary of the mechanical puzzle world for the past forty years.  He was one of the early innovators of "sequential discovery" and "blind solve" modern puzzles.  He was commissioned to build the host gifts for Norman Sandfield and Bill Cutler, the hosts of IPP23 held in Chicago in 2003.  His very recent untimely death saddened many in the puzzle world and all that new him, including me.  I will always carry a warm spot in my heart for the "mock" law suit Gary brought against me stemming from the head butt I gave him at IPP26 in Boston in 2006 (instigated by Gary repeatedly calling me Zidane, the soccer player infamous for head butting another player).  

Gary's contribution to the Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange at IPP29 — held in San Francisco in 2009 — was "Ring Box."  The objective of this clever mechanical puzzle is to simply remove the ring from the cylindrical box.  "Ring Box" comes as received at IPP29 in its original felt pouch with attached solution and original box.  It is 2 inches tall and 1 in in diameter.  It's condition would be rated as "(A) Collector: Flaws must be very minor, subtle, and difficult to identify," and its function as "(1) Perfect: Neither loose nor tight, no binding or alignment issues, moves smoothly."