GERMAIN, Karl (Charles Mattmueller, 1878 – 1959). Karl Germain's Ring Pull. Hamburg: Willmann, ca. 1930. Heavy machined metal locking pull with claw-like closure at line's terminal end. Length 4 ¼". Purchased for the Salon de Magie from Stuart Cramer, Germain's biographer and protégé. A letter of provenance from Cramer dated December 3, 1976 notes that the Ring Pull was used for a trick called the Ring from Hand to Hand, “One of the few tricks Germain still did after he became blind."