Puzzle, Phantom Block
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: maker
content: Royal Magic & Novelty Company
notes: label: Description
content: This puzzle consists of a large hollow wooden cylinder painted red, a smaller wooden cylinder painted green, and a metal rod. Holes in the sides of the cylinders align so that the metal rod may pass through them, and the smaller cylinder is held within the larger one. One end of the smaller cylinder holds a magnet, which also can hold the smaller cylinder to the metal rod. Instructions on the box holding the pieces suggest how one might show the pieces to a viewer, having the smaller cylinder dislodged while the rod remains through holes in the larger cylinder.
label: Description
content: A mark on one side of the box reads: ROYAL (/) “ROYDONS” (/) Phantom (/) BLOCK. A mark on another side reads: NO SKILL REQUIRED! (/) Phantom (/) BLOCK (/) A BAFFLING MYSTERY! A mark at one end of the box reads: PHANTOM (/) BLOCK (/) PAT.PENDING (/) ROYAL MAGIC & (/) NOVELTY CO. A mark on the instructions gives a copyright date of 1950.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.335283
label: catalog number
content: 335283
label: accession number
content: 314637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Puzzle
label: Object Name
content: puzzle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (instructions, box material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (cylinders material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (rod material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 cm x 3 cm x 3 cm; 3 15/16 in x 1 3/16 in x 1 3/16 in