Puzzle, Gilbert Conjuring Rings
date: label: date made
content: ca 1917
notes: label: Description
content: This disentanglement puzzle consists of two intertwined metal rings. A green paper card gives instructions on how to separate them. A mark on the card reads: Gilbert Conjuring Rings. Another mark reads: THE A. C. GILBERT COMPANY NEW HAVEN, CONN., U. S. A. Another mark reads: M 104 No. 11 4-17. Assuming M 104 is the model number and 4-17 the date of the card, this object is slightly earlier than the conjuring rings shown in the 1920 catalog cited below.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: A.C. Gilbert Company, <I>Book of Instructions for Use with Gilbert Puzzle Parties. . . .</I>, New Haven: A.C. Gilbert Company, 1920, p. 5. A copy of this booklet is online at gamearchives.org, accessed July 26, 2017. The model number given to the conjuring rings here is 830.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Haven
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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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.335292
label: catalog number
content: 335292
label: accession number
content: 314637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Puzzle
label: Object Name
content: puzzle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.2 cm x 12.5 cm x 10.5 cm; 15/32 in x 4 29/32 in x 4 1/8 in