The Complete Ship-in-a-Bottle Guide: the History and the Process (Lewis Hobby Series)

Bill Lewis

Copyright © 2016 by Bill Lewis. All rights reserved

Contents: Introduction, History, Getting Started, The Know How, and Conclusion.

Introduction:
An impossible bottle is a type of mechanical puzzle. The term often refers to any bottle containing an object that does not appear to fit through the bottle’s mouth or opening. The ship in a bottle is a traditional impossible bottle. Other common objects that can be placed inside a bottle include matchboxes, tennis balls, padlocks, Rubik’s cubes, knots and even scissors. These are placed in the bottle using various mechanisms which include using a small object that expands inside the bottle....

History:
There are many stories, myths and legends about the first ship in a bottle; the first person to make and create one, the country it came from etc. The seafarers that built the first ship is unknown and so is the year that it happened. The reason being that nobody kept records of these things mainly because there were no means or resources and also maybe because no one felt putting ships in a bottle will become such a conventional hobby. Bottles older than the mid-1800’s were often not clear enough to showcase a model ship. But by the late 1800’s....

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