SOLD Old Homemade Tension Operated Mouse Trap with Wire Teeth and Carved Out Chamber ceramic planter or very ornate

or very ornate

Each is signed on the underside and there is a mark on the side of the one with the wider banding

Answers/solutions to puzzles at the back of the booklet

though I'd just hang it on the wall

SOLD Old Homemade Tension Operated Mouse Trap with Wire Teeth and Carved Out Chamber ceramic planter or very ornateA bit gruesome perhaps, but I love a homemade mechanical object, and to my mind a homemade mousetrap is compelling in a similar way to a bee box an individualistic and often make do solution to the problem at hand. I'm not 100% sure exactly how this one was set, but depressing the wire handle lowers a wire loop inside the carved out barrel, while releasing it raises that loop, trapping the proverbial mouse inside, and it seems piercing its back with a