Pen Advertising Cube Museum
date: label: date made
content: 1988-1991
notes: label: Description
content: This 6-1/2" black plastic ballpoint stick pen has a white eraser and is marked: CECIL SMITH – THE CUBE MUSEUM (/) BOX 2826-329 QURAY, PH 1-303-245-6734 (/) GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. 81502 USA.
label: Description
content: Rubik's Cube enthusiast Cecil Smith (b. 1929) operated the Cube Museum in western Colorado from 1988 to 1991, in part to demonstrate the thousands of patterns that could be formed with this mathematical game. This pen advertised the facility. After the museum closed, he donated a few items from his collection of nearly 5,000 cubes to the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: Reference: Cecil Smith, "Cubeology's Pretty Patterns," http://rubikscube2.com/id1.html.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: writing implements
label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Pens and Pencils
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content: Advertising
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cecil Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.3041.13.3
label: catalog number
content: 2006.3041.13.3
label: nonaccession number
content: 2006.3041
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pen
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.4 cm x .4 cm x .4 cm; 6 15/32 in x 5/32 in x 5/32 in