Hopefully our good friend Mick Hanzlik, the man I turn to for all things Mirror related, will write a new Guest Blog for us with his own conclusions regarding what is now being called the "Tatler cuff." But even the mighty Mick seems somewhat perplexed at the moment by this new wrinkle in the Mirror story. The Daily Mirror Challenge: In 1904, the London-based paper The Daily Mirror challenged Houdini to escape special handcuffs that Nathaniel Hart, a locksmith, had spent 5 years working on. Harry Houdini was first known as The King Of Handcuffs. (Be sure and check out the post by "Riley" on November 2 at 5:17 PM for a wild alternate theory of how Houdini pulled off the Mirror escape using these mystery cuffs.) So if you want to weigh-in on this one, I would advise heading over there. This article was uncovered by Ron Spitz and posted to the Handcuffs.Org forum where it's currently being hotly discussed. If this is indeed a second working Mirror Handcuff, and the cuff that Houdini escaped from at the London Hippodrome in 1904, then it opens a fresh can of worms and raises a while host of new questions about the famous challenge. The article not only shows a different Mirror Handcuff key, but on closer examination, it appears to be a different Mirror Handcuff entirely! It started with this article from a March 1904 issue of The Tatler that surfaced on eBay recently. There is currently a fresh new mystery surrounding Houdini famous Mirror Handcuff challenge of 1904 that has some of the best minds scratching their heads. A devoted debunker of fake psychics and mediums, the tradition of holding a seance in his honour - he and his wife Bess had agreed on a secret code to use if.
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