Collector's Antique and Vintage Puzzles
For Sale or Exchange

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Richter's Kreis-Ratsel

ASS-021 £45
Richter's Qualgeist
ASS-022 £30


Nut House dissected checker board. Mint condition

ASS-032 £15

Daily Mirror ZIG-ZAG prize puzzle. rare 1929 polyiamonds puzzle
ASS-034 £28

Rare antique Chinese Stone box of stone pieces. Our own set is very similar with plain bases and elaborately carved tops, but this set has a missing seal replaced with a mahogany piece. Nob Yoshigahara told us that they were seals ready to have their bottoms carved; however we have now seen 4 sets none of which have carved bases. The puzzle is how to put them in the box so that no straight dividing line goes from side to side.
ASS-042 £220

The POOL PUZZLE. (The last one!)

Designed by Stewart Coffin, made by Trevor Wood, given by Edward Hordern as his exchange at the IPP19 in London in 1999. (related to STC #134).

 ASS-045 £150
Richter's CROSS PUZZLE
ASS-046 £60
Stainless steel NOB-TANGRAM
ASS-047 £15
Lott's Stone Butterfly Puzzle
ASS-050 £20
Richter Puzzle drive #5 TANGRAM. Pencil notes of solution in booklet/
ASS-051 £30

Richter Columbus Egg

ASS-052 £60
L'Astronome
 ASS-053 £25

THE PYTHAGOREAN PUZZLE. Acrylic Pieces based on an 1840 puzzle. Six pieces to prove Pythagoras 'Theorem, Make Rectangles using 3,4, and finally 6 pieces.
ASS-057 £5

THE PYTHAGOREAN PUZZLE.

Full version as used for IPP30 Osaka Exchange. Matt acrylic pieces in smart matt acrylic tray.

ASS-058 £20
       
       
       
       
       
       

Daily Sketch Prize puzzle with misleading name - 1930s polyiamonds puzzle
ASS-036 sold

Cakeoma series. Rare - Cross Puzzle. Celluloid pieces in lithographed tin
ASS-037 sold

Cakeoma series. rare - Fugitive Square Puzzle. Celluloid pieces in lithographed tin
ASS-038 sold


Superb antique inlaid hardwood box containing a dissected boxwood cube which is slightly different to the classic Chinese dissection as this has 8 pieces. (one piece has a split due to the wood grain which in no way diminishes the puzzle).

there is an extra puzzle: Exactly like the Puzzle Museum's copy the pieces are impressed with small letters - These are identical to 3 copies we have seen. So they are not random, but why were they chosen?

ASS-039 sold

Richter's rare Mosaic Puzzle No.1. Different colour on each side of the pieces. Complete with instruction book and large colourful sheet of problems with combination of Sets 1 & 2.
ASS-040 sold
Richter's rare Mosaic Puzzle No.1. Different colour on each side of the pieces. Complete with instruction book. ASS-041 sold
       
Classic Chinese ivory 10 piece dissected cube in hardwood box. The box has slight damage to the rebated edge as can be seen in the photo. ASS-043 sold


The POOL PUZZLE. What provenance!

Designed by Stewart Coffin, made by Trevor Wood, given by Edward Hordern as his exchange at the IPP19 in London in 1999. (related to STC design #134).

ASS-044 sold
       

Rarer than Richter. Kellers "SMART BOB". c.1907 poor box & worn booklet

ASS-048 sold

Kellers "SMART BOB". c.1970 moderate box & fair booklet . Missing bits
ASS-049 sold

McLoughlin Bros. NY, USA. Complete set of Twelve hand-coloured problem cards. Plus incomplete Key & Directions for CHINESE PUZZLE pp1,10,11,12.
ASS-054 sold
The MYSTIC CUBES. Please note: The "Cubes" are ORIGINAL linen backed card pieces made by Lord Robert's Workshops for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors after World War One. They are contained in the facsimile wrapper that James Dalgety used for his IPP19 Exchange puzzle.
ASS-055 sold
MIND-THE-GAP. J.Dalgety's IPP28 Exchange designed by Stewart Coffin, made by Pentangle. There is still no STC number for this puzzle.
ASS-056

sold