Cut a handle from a spare loofah sponge piece.
Having collected finery from his many travels, he searched across Europe for items to properly complete the furnishings: carpets from Smyrna, embroidered pillowcases from Germany, and a handle for the lavatory chain crafted from Bohemian glass.
"I had one friend whom I've known for 15 years who said, 'I've always thought of you as a beautiful black lacquered box with a platinum handle from the 1920s, but I never knew there was anything inside the box,' " Mr. Ford said.
Once the weapon was fired, the soldier released a latch with his thumb, grasped a knob at the end of a handle projecting from the bolt, turned it until locking lugs on the bolt were disengaged from slots in the receiver, and slid the bolt back to open the chamber for reloading.
Weighted by two balls suspended externally on small cords, the prayer wheels are set in motion when a hand rotates a handle extending from the axis or when the prayer wheels are aligned along a common axis.
He started brightly, too, by becoming one of only two players to make birdie on Saturday on the 1st, where the pin was tucked barely the length of a club handle from the left-hand edge of the green.
Also sold at the Butterfields auction, held simultaneously at the firm's San Francisco and Los Angeles facilities, was a silver handle from the command module of Apollo 11 that took Neil Armstrong and company to the moon's orbit.
"It seemed like the obvious thing to do so I threw myself on the ground and Gary grabbed a pick-axe handle from the garage.
In one famous example from Oxford University, a female named Betty methodically bends a straight piece of wire against the outside of a plastic cylinder to form the shape of a hook, which she then inserts into the plastic cylinder to extract a handled plug from the bottom as deftly as one might pull a stopper from a drain.
