Of Turkish Puzzle Rings

As some of you will remember, I used to have a Turkish Puzzle Ring; it looked like this, but not half as nice (being made out of base metal, and with rough square edges):

(The (apocryphal) story, for those not aware, is that the Turks used to give these to their wives when they went off to fight in the Crusades, so that should their wives prove unfaithful, they'd take their wedding rings off and they'd fall apart, and they'd not be able to get them back together.)

Three and a half years years ago my old ring broke. I'm surprised it's taken me this long to think of it, but I've just got a replacement as a Chanukah present from my parents. ( Read more... )