
Ten thousand dollars was at stake - the bet, between two friends was that one couldn't put a Jose Grant puzzle ring back together within 24 hours. Of course the fellow lost, he had no chance of winning, the words of the rings creator. Joe Jose Grant, born in 1908, the pilot turned jeweler, and his staff have been making more puzzle designs than anyone in the world for over sixty years. During W. W. II Joe flew C-54s for the Air Transport Command in and around Cairo, Egypt. Working within the Shepherds Hotel in Cairo was Bakhar, a white Russian silversmith.