Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919 · London : Frederick Warne · leaf 47
Fig. 31. described, and in outward appearance as depicted in Fig. 34.A coin is dropped in through the slit at top, and the puzzleis to extract it. No. IX.—The Captive Sixpence. This is a puzzle of American origin. It is a neat littlenickel-plated box, of very small size, being only an inch in … Fig. 35. height, and in diameter just large enough to admit a sixpence(see Fig. 35). On the top, shut in by an overlapping edge ofmetal, is seen an actual sixpence. The top, with the six- Puzzles Dependent on some Trick or Secret. 25 pence upon it, is depressible to the .extent of a quarter of…
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