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Radio Puzzle, glass dexterity puzzle, 1920s
40.00
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BruceWhitehill (33 )
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Description
Unusual glass dexterity puzzle. It looks like an ashtray with a raised lip. There is a raised platform in the middle, with a center ring with one opening into it. Four channels, marked 1-4 respectively, are on a steep rise from the bottom edges to the raised center. There are four metal or composition balls. The object is "to run one ball up each channel and into the receptacle in consecutive order." If you allow one ball to "run out of the receptacle before the puzzle is accomplished," you have to start over.
Because there is such a steep rise from the bottom to the top, it is very hard trying to keep 1, 2, and then 3 balls in the center ring while you are attempting to bring another ball up the next channel, making for a very difficult dexterity puzzle.
Size = approx. 3.5" diameter, 3/4" high
The title, "Radio Puzzle" (there is a "567" written before the title) and the first line on the box, "No wires to 'pull'," suggest this puzzle was made during the early days of radio, the 1920s.
Payment: Payment can be made by Paypal or by check in U.S. dollars, or by Paypal in euro, or by euro through direct transfer of funds into my German bank account at the equivalent of US $1 = 0,80 euro.
Important Shipping Note: I will be preparing for and attending the Essen Spieletage (German game fair) immediately after the auction ends. I can bring your items won to Essen and save you the shipping cost, but I will not be able to advise on shipping costs or mail items until after the 28th of October! Remember, all items will be shipped from Germany.
Because there is such a steep rise from the bottom to the top, it is very hard trying to keep 1, 2, and then 3 balls in the center ring while you are attempting to bring another ball up the next channel, making for a very difficult dexterity puzzle.
Size = approx. 3.5" diameter, 3/4" high
The title, "Radio Puzzle" (there is a "567" written before the title) and the first line on the box, "No wires to 'pull'," suggest this puzzle was made during the early days of radio, the 1920s.
Payment: Payment can be made by Paypal or by check in U.S. dollars, or by Paypal in euro, or by euro through direct transfer of funds into my German bank account at the equivalent of US $1 = 0,80 euro.
Important Shipping Note: I will be preparing for and attending the Essen Spieletage (German game fair) immediately after the auction ends. I can bring your items won to Essen and save you the shipping cost, but I will not be able to advise on shipping costs or mail items until after the 28th of October! Remember, all items will be shipped from Germany.
Specifications
- Designer
- unknown
- Craftsman / Manufacturer
- Rust Craft, Boston, USA
- Material
- glass
- Unit of Measurement
- Centimeters
- Size
- 10 cm diameter x 2.5 diam. high
- Grade
- Excellent
- Cosmetic Issues
- The glass puzzle is excellent. The box is solid, but the edges are worn and one apron has been glued inside to keep it from separating from the top, and the box bottom has a repaired split apron. The box text and color illustration are clear and clean, but the background paper is discolored and darkened with age.
- Function
- N/A
- Functional Issues
- -
- Repairs
- -
- Packaging
- -
- Documentation
- -
- Assembly
- -
- Smoke-free home
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- PayPal, Check or Money Order
Postage & Shipping
- Item Location
- Eickeloh/Hamburg, ., Germany
- Ships To
- Worldwide
- Shipping Instructions
- -
- Returns Accepted
- No
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