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Thanks to Tim LaGanke for the alert and pic.
UPDATE: Philip Treece at CollectingMagic.co.uk provides the following insight:
I think the editor who wrote the title got carried away suggesting it was Houdini with chains. This is a generic magician figure who performs a linking ring style effect called the tumbling rings: tumblingrings.com.
Related:
Reminds me of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph from the tomb of Beni Hasan that supposedly depicts a magician performing the cup and balls. It's quite possibly a man just baking bread.
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