Box of Puzzles, Wire Puzzles
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930-1950
name: label: maker
content: Sherms Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This cardboard box containing seven puzzles also includes a sheet, a leaflet, and a plastic bag which show solutions to the puzzles. The puzzles included, as named in the leaflet, are the pretzel puzzle, the triangle puzzle, the question puzzle, the nail puzzle, the heart puzzle, the spider web puzzle, and the T puzzle.
label: Description
content: A mark on the box reads: WIRE (/) PUZZLES (/) Twisted (/) [T]angled (/) Put Together (/) Take Apart (/) Wire (/) Problems. A mark on the bottom left of the lid reads: A (/) Sherm’s (/) Creation (/) REGISTERED U.S.A. A mark on the inside of the leaflet reads: LEARN TO ENTERTAIN (/) WITH (/) Master Magic. Further text there reads: Dept. A. “SHERMS” BRIDGEPORT, CONN.
label: Description
content: Sherms, Inc., in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was a firm established by Russian-born magician Robert Sherman (1892-1969) by the 1920s and operated into the 1960s. This particular puzzle is not included in the firm’s 1926 catalog.
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content: References:
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content: Betty Tyler, “Robert Sherman Keeps on the Go Conjuring Magic and Manufacturing Tricks.” <I>Bridgeport Post</I>, February 15, 1959, p. 36.
label: Description
content: <I>Learn to Entertain with “Sherms Master Magic Tricks and Puzzles</I>, Bridgeport, Ct.: Sherms, 1926.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Bridgeport
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.335288
label: catalog number
content: 335288
label: accession number
content: 314637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: puzzle
label: Object Name
content: Puzzle
label: Object Name
content: puzzle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: string (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 cm x 15.5 cm x 15.5 cm; 1 3/16 in x 6 3/32 in x 6 3/32 in