Dissection Puzzle Distributed by Royal Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1958
name: label: distributor
content: Royal
notes: label: Description
content: This dissection puzzle consists of four cardboard pieces of the same shape that fit together form a perfect square. Each piece describes and illustrates (identically on both sides) one feature of a Royal typewriter. The pieces fit into a tan envelope. Text printed on the envelope reads: Test your skill! (/) Try to form (/) A PERFECT SQUARE (/) with the four-piece (/) PUZZLE inside (/) this envelope (/) It can (/) be done (/) COMPLIMENTS OF ROYAL TYPEWRITERS Division of Royal McBee Corporation (/) Printed in U.S.A. OS2D-58-576.
label: Description
content: Royal Typewriters became a division of Royal McBee Corporation in 1954. In 1965 that firm was acquired by Litton. These facts, combined with the form number, suggest a date of about 1958.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
label: Subject
content: Office Equipment
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Advertising
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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.335290
label: catalog number
content: 335290
label: accession number
content: 314637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Puzzle
label: Object Name
content: puzzle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall in envelope: .2 cm x 12 cm x 9.2 cm; 3/32 in x 4 23/32 in x 3 5/8 in