a.k.a. Construction Cigar, Cigar Puzzle
Garner Products and Shackman & Co., New York; this one for sale in 1950's.
(wood pieces on metal rod with 6 short rods, 5.2" long x 3/4" diameter)

This puzzle was purchased from a seller who said that it came from residual stock of Glenn's Novelty Shop, 16th and Market St., Philadelphia, where his father worked when the shop closed shop in 1959. Subsequently puzzle collector Michel van Ipenburg kindly provided a copy of the Garner directions and puzzle collector Bill Ja kindly provided a copy of the Shackman directions and also sent a much appreciated gift of a set of reproduction short rods (that were missing from this one). Both directions, shown on the following pages, show these objects to make:

Chinese Lantern

Knife Grinder

HotWater Bottle

Fire Siren

Hitching Post

Urn On Pedestal

The short rods are stored in the middle brown tube; from left to right in the photo above, on the left below is a photo of the left ends of the tubes and on the right a photo of the right ends: