SOLD Old Homemade Tension Operated Mouse Trap with Wire Teeth and Carved Out Chamber Piatnik & Söhne 2 15/16" w x 3/4"

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With these elegant stone walls

which photos can't do justice

I'd guess the thread connecting the handle to his hand and at his shoulder replaced the original thread

SOLD Old Homemade Tension Operated Mouse Trap with Wire Teeth and Carved Out Chamber Piatnik & Söhne 2 15/16" w x 3/4"A 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