Puzzle, Magic Ring Off String
date: label: date made
content: ca 1945
name: label: maker
content: Forbes Products Company
notes: label: Description
content: This magic trick consists of two plastic rings, a black string, and a leaflet of instructions. The leaflet explains how to use the string and rings to make it appear that a ring on the string magically comes off it. A mark on the front of the leaflet reads: MAGIC (/) RING (/) OFF STRING (/) REMOVE SOLID RING FROM (/) CORD HELD BY SPECTATOR. A trademark there reads: PLACO. A mark on the inside reads: FORBES PRODUCTS COMPANY, Rochester, New York.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: [Advertisment], <I>Popular Mechanics</I>, vol. 85, no. 6, June, 1946, p. 54. A Forbes Products Company advertisement lists the toy.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
label: See more items in
content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edith R. Meggers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.335286
label: catalog number
content: 335286
label: accession number
content: 314637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Puzzle
label: Object Name
content: puzzle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: thread (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .4 cm x 8.8 cm x 12.6 cm; 5/32 in x 3 15/32 in x 4 31/32 in