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 Teddy Bear in a Gallon Bottle by Aaron Daniel

 

     I like puzzles.  I like logic puzzles and mysteries.  I like tavern puzzles and burrs and entanglement puzzles.  I like trying to figure how to put things together and how to take things apart.  Years ago I saw an article about a man who would put things into bottles (other than ships) that seem to be too big to slip through the neck of the bottle.  Since then I have tried to learn more about building things inside of bottles and even tried my hand at building a few of my own.  Below you will find links to sites about puzzles and about what are alternatively called whimsey bottles, impossible objects, or patience bottles.  There is even a small photo gallery of some of the bottles that I designed and built.

 



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S. D. Jones on Folk Art in Bottles
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A site about folk art in bottles by S. D. Jones, author of Genius in a Bottle: the art and magic of bottle whimseys. The site includes  articles about the history of bottle whimseys (also called, "whimsey bottles," "puzzle bottles," or "whimsies"), links to museums and other sites about  bottles, and a lot of pictures of bottles from as far back as the 1700s.

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The Ames Gallery of Folk Art

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The Ames Gallery of Folk Art in Berkeley CA.  This link is to the page of bottle whimseys in their collection

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Scale Reproductions

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Scale Reproductions by David S. Smith.  Smith builds and sells scale reproductions of ships in bottles.  His site includes a history of ships and other things built in bottles from a modern builder of ships in bottles.  The site also has pictures of many ships in bottles.

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Models and Bottles by Ralph Preston

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Ralph Preston’s Models and Bottles website  includes pictures of ships in bottles that he has built and an in-depth article about how to take pictures of objects inside bottles.

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Impossible Objects at Puzzle World
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The Impossible Objects page at the Puzzle World site by John Rausch includes pictures of bottles by John and by Harry Eng.  The rest of the site provides pictures and information about other types of puzzles likes burrs and entanglement puzzles.

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Bottle Magic by Jeff Scanlan
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Great pictures of bottles that Jeff Scanlan, the Sports Magician, makes and sells on his website.

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Pictures of J. Aaron Daniel's Bottles
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Pictures of bottles I've built.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This site was last updated 08/18/05