B62-706. SET OF COMPLEX RULES. The most complicated and elaborate set of rules we have ever seen and we have no idea of its purpose. It consists of 10 rules: one comprised of five legs that unfold to a total of 42", each leg has either one or two hinges to allow it to be folded and the end one has a caliper; one comprised of three legs that unfold to 24", the center one also has a hinge to fold in half; four identical ones that unfold to 18" with a metal strip with holes; and four more that each unfold flat to 26", on two of them one of the legs has a hinge in the middle. None of them are signed, and the only hint is that one of them has the following written on the side: "At Clerkenwell Green London 1816. When the Judge asked his master to show him the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet this is the rule that formed it." The same message is repeated in block printing on the opposite side. All of them are contained in a fitted mahogany box with a folding lid. The lid has a piece of paper pasted into it that may contain some clue as to the purpose, but the writing is so faded we can't read it. Everything is boxwood with brass hinges and very well made, there are a few stains. Fine 300-500