
The first was a wooden copy of a Four Axis Folding Star that David Bruce brought along to the 14th Annual
Puzzle Collector’s Party (now IPP) in Seattle in 1994. David had come across some of John Kostick’s bronze stars at a craft market in Portland in 1991 and then done some research
to find John’s 1970 patent on the construction of “Symmetrical Non-Cartesian Multiple
Axis Joining of Beams”. (U.S. Patent # 3546049 in case you’re interested.)

The wooden star functions exactly like its bigger bronze brethren...
and still looks great after almost 20 years ... thanks Wil – it looks good next
to the rest of the family.
The other little item he gave me was my first ever puzzle jug ... a Strijbos take on a
puzzle jug, or should that be puzzle jugs? (or should I have left the reader to
make that little joke themselves? We’ll never know!)
Hand-blown in glass, Wil assures me they were originally available
in both Adam and Eve models ... and I’m secretly pleased that I got an Eve...

Thanks Wil – it’s really cute, and
it’ll always be the first puzzle jug(s) in my collection!
Erm! Allard? You don't have a LITTLE puzzle collection anymore!!!
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Hmm, I wonder how does one drink from the Adam jug?
ReplyDeleteI refuse to even contemplate that!
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