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 NED
KELLY
Original selling
price AUD440.00
Over 100 years after he was hanged the mystery of Australia's
most infamous bushranger Ned Kelly still remains an unsolved
puzzle.
The puzzle is to find Ned Kelly's skull; it's true whereabouts
remains a mystery to this day.
To celebrate our 10th Anniversary Limited Edition range Brian
has created a completely unique design which recalls the history
of Ned Kelly.
To do the puzzle
you will have to follow the history of the Kelly gang's last
stand in thier crudely fashioned armour at against the troopers
at Stringy Bark Creek. To assist we will tell the story of Ned
Kelly's Last Stand on the Limited Edition certificate you will
receive with the puzzle.
You will need
to solve ten different puzzles to discover the tools incorporated
in the puzzle. You will require these tools along the way to
complete the puzzle.
The puzzle
will also be quite a challenge to reassemble because every piece
in the puzzle is different and interlocking.
Ned is presented
in Queensland Blackbean. Queensland Blackbean grows throughout
eastern Australia and is also known as Moreton Bay Bean or Moreton
Bay Chestnut.
Size: 290mm
tall x 130mm x 80mm.
NOTE: Original
selling price in USD was 246.00.
In April 2008 one of these puzzles sold at Baxterweb Puzzle Auctions,
Featuring the John Ergatoudis Collection Phase 12 for USD 710.00.
 PUZZLER'S
CAGE
Original selling
price AUD220.00
The puzzle is to assemble/disassemble the 24 piece interlocking
burr.
This burr is extemely interlocking; it even interlocks around
the ends of some of the pieces which is very unusual.
Junichi Yananose
designed this burr in 1999 without the use of a computer and
in his own words describes it as "a crazy difficult burr
puzzle".
This puzzle
has been so rarely made that even Junichi does not own a copy
of this puzzle, although he has already reserved one from this
Limited Edition releases.
Puzzler's Cage
is presented in Queensland Maple (which like many native Australian
timbers is not really from the maple family). Also known as Maple
Silkwood this timber is from the Rutaceae family.
NOTE: Original
selling price in USD was 123.00.
One of them was resold within 24hour of being listed on eBay
"Buy it Now" in March 2005 for USD275.00
In April 2008 one of these puzzles sold at Baxterweb Puzzle Auctions,
Featuring the John Ergatoudis Collection Phase 12 for USD 300.00.
 RUSSIAN
13
Make the 3x3 interlocking cube.
Original selling
price AUD95.00
The puzzle again comes from the book by Russian author Leonid
Mochalov (website: www.puzzlemochalov.narod.ru) called "400
Games, Puzzles & Tricks". It's presented in the chapter
called Volumetric Puzzles and is called the Collapsible Cube
although it's inventor is unknown to us.
Mr Puzzle himself found this puzzle quite tricky to put together;
you can make it more difficult by not taking any hints from the
photo of the assembled puzzle. From our own computer analysis
there are six different solutions; see if you can find them all.
The puzzle is crafted from Australian Blackwood, also known as
Black Wattle.
Size: 90mm x 90mm x 90mm
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