ABSTRACT
Of all the objects Harry E n g has placed inside of a bottle, a solid metal coin is one of the most amazing. The effect is one of total impossibility. I pondered over this for some time until Harry let me in on his secret: he bent the coin, placed it in the bottle, then used a specially constructed metal vise inside the bottle to flatten the coin. To accomplish this, some of the vise pieces are fed into the bottle one at a time, and then reassembled while inside the bottle. The remaining pieces of the vise are assembled outside of the bottle and joined to the pieces inside. The bent coin is now maneuvered into the vise inside the bottle, the vise closed, and the coin pressed flat. The vise is now disassembled and removed from the bottle. The real beauty of the vise is that the force applied to flatten the coin is generated outside of the bottle.
