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Japanese Luna Handcuffs

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djhalfdead 25 Mar 2023
#1
Add me to the Luna Handcuff Owners Club. Finally, i was able to buy one! There was a bit of a bidding war for this set on Ebay, but i pulled off the win in the last few seconds of the auction. Overall, a great cuff! Well made and quite heavy. I received two keys with them, but none are the original keys. However, both keys do work in this set. I can, now, strike The Luna off of my want list. Im quite pleased.

-Richard Knip-
james.slips 25 Mar 2023
#2
djhalfdead wrote:Add me to the Luna Handcuff Owners Club. Finally, i was able to buy one! There was a bit of a bidding war for this set on Ebay, but i pulled off the win in the last few seconds of the auction. Overall, a great cuff! Well made and quite heavy. I received two keys with them, but none are the original keys. However, both keys do work in this set. I can, now, strike The Luna off of my want list. Im quite pleased.
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-Richard Knip-IMG_1874.JPG
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Congrats! Nice cuffs!


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ssbaldwin 25 Mar 2023
#3
Richard

I saw the auction and was tempted but didn’t join in. Nice find of a very rare cuff.

Spencer
KruegerKuffs 25 Mar 2023
#4
Congratulations! A really nice cuff!
rejones68 25 Mar 2023
#5
Congratulations! My bid was only half of what they sold for. Ron J
holstcollection 25 Mar 2023
#6
The term "Luna" was coined by the late collector Ray McKee. Ray once was the king in collecting of restraints, long before the rest of us. The name Luna" reflect the shape of the moon as on the cuffs.

As I understand, the "Luna" came in several shapes, weights and versions and they are all rare. Here are my two specimen; one heavy and one lighter. @Gordon has the best of them all with a complicated lock. @Gordon; please post a picture of your set. I think it once was owened by Ray McKee. A very cool set.
chriscuffs6 25 Mar 2023
#7
Well done, Ray sent me a photo 30 years ago and have never managed to get a set. Still on my wants list!
Gordon 25 Mar 2023
#8
  I can not find any pictures right now but if you go back to April 13, 2020 you will see
pictures and explanations of the handcuff.
djhalfdead 26 Mar 2023
#9
Thank you, everyone, for your congratulations! In my time on these boards, I have never seen one for sale, so I knew I couldnt let it go. I shot high and was very lucky. It would be great to find a heavyweight set, like Lars has, but that is another cuff that may not make its way off of my want list. Im very fortunate to have gotten the cuffs off of my want list that I have through the years.

Lars, to set the record straight, wasnt it Ian McColl who name the Luna Cuff? I had seen on another thread where you had said Ray had coined the name, and Ian had corrected you saying that he (Ian) was the one to name them. I was never fortunate enough to have met Ray or even had known who he was. A few great collectors came and went before my time. But, i have been able to meet a few great collectors of our time and for that I am very grateful.

Gordon, If i may, I can supply pics of your special set of Luna Cuffs. I was quite enamored with them, the first time I had seen you post them on here. Just gorgeous cuffs! The inner workings would be quite the sight to see, I am sure. Do you know any of the backstory to your set? Were they made as a keepsake or a gift of some sort?
-Richarrd Knip-
Gordon 26 Mar 2023
#10
 I believe that these handcuffs came from the lock collectors world and that is where
John Bushey got them.  He sold them to a handcuff dealer and I got them from him.
 Ray Mckey never owned them. I did get a Luna handcuff from him. Another name 
besides Luna has been the Crescent handcuff. Both names have a reference
to a phase of the moon.