$700
Mechanical Passe Passe Bottles. New Haven: Petrie & Lewis (P&L), ca. 1949. Comedy effect in which a bottle and glass change places underneath two separate metal tubes. Three-bottle "repeat" model, with a mechanical device incorporated into one bottle that picks up the duplicate glass by pushing a button in the neck of the bottle. Tubes 11 ¾" high. Wear to finish, good overall. Rare. Most versions of this classic trick use a simple element of construction to allow for the secret pick-up of the duplicate glass. This model - perhaps the only version manufactured as such by P&L - is much more Rube Goldberg-like in its operation, and over-complicates what is traditionally a simple element of the trick.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-02-06
