SOLD Old Homemade Tension Operated Mouse Trap with Wire Teeth and Carved Out Chamber ceramic planter 1 1/2" across at ferrule

1 1/2" across at ferrule

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SOLD Old Homemade Tension Operated Mouse Trap with Wire Teeth and Carved Out Chamber ceramic planter 1 1/2" across at ferruleA 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