$350
Eng Puzzle Bottle. California, Harry Eng, ca. 1990. Puzzle bottle containing a silver half dollar and knotted rope, both too large to fit through the mouth of the bottle. A matching knot with a half dollar threaded through the cord sit outside the bottle’s mouth. The coin in the bottle is signed by Eng. Very good.Note: Harry Eng, the inventor of the "impossible bottle" concept, exercised extreme patience and creativity to create the various incarnations of his bottles. In this case, he invented a special vice that could be taken apart and assembled inside a bottle. This vice allowed Eng to bend or straighten items such as the coin in this example; the vice could then be dismantled and removed from the bottle.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-04-04
