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Un Curieux Tourniquet
 
This page is being used to collect information about the history of the paperfolding design known as Un Curieux Tournique. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

Un curieux tourniquet is a piece of folded paper which can be made to rotate by the heat of the hands.

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1888

As far as I know this design first appears in issue 762 of 'La Nature' of 7th January 1888 in an article written by Dr Z.

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The design also appears:

1893

In Volume 1 of 'The Picture Magazine' for January to June 1893.

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c1899

In Volume 1 of 'Kolumbus-Eier' which was published by Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft in Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig c1899.

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