What is these for?

[toomanytoyzz]

Picked these two up at a garage sale today. Looked cool, but I have no idea what they are for?

 

[crajos]

They're puzzles. You have to figure out how to get the rings off of them. Using tools to do it is cheating!

 

[Steevo]

They are both partial puzzles.
They go together.

 

[RCStocker]

Years ago they let the inmates in New York and other places make Puzles in the shop. I have quite a collection of them and I can't figrue most of them out. They made them in other places and so did people on the outside.

You can look them up on line.

 

[mustanginky]

for the prisoners, solving them turned them into a handcuff key or a prison shank!

 

[Steinmetz]

A "Chinese" wire puzzle.

 

[toomanytoyzz]

for the prisoners, solving them turned them into a handcuff key or a prison shank!

I work in a state prison. Lotsa shanks to be made out of those pieces.

Thanks!! I'll use them to hang stuff from for paint.

 

[anodyne33]

They're for engraving your Stanley Cu...

Err... sorry.



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[toomanytoyzz]

They're for engraving your Stanley Cu...

Err... sorry.



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They look more like something that your Captain would stick up his....err.

.....but I just don't like the Flyers so I'm just going to cry.