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Box of Puzzles, Wire Puzzles

American History Museum

Wire Puzzles
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  • Wire Puzzles
  • Wire Puzzles
  • Wire Puzzles

    Object Details

    maker

    Sherms Inc.

    Description

    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.
    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.
    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.
    References:
    Betty Tyler, “Robert Sherman Keeps on the Go Conjuring Magic and Manufacturing Tricks.” Bridgeport Post, February 15, 1959, p. 36.
    Learn to Entertain with “Sherms Master Magic Tricks and Puzzles, Bridgeport, Ct.: Sherms, 1926.

    Location

    Currently not on view

    Credit Line

    Gift of Edith R. Meggers

    date made

    ca 1930-1950

    ID Number

    MA.335288

    catalog number

    335288

    accession number

    314637

    Object Name

    puzzle
    Puzzle
    puzzle

    Physical Description

    metal (overall material)
    string (overall material)
    paper (overall material)

    Measurements

    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

    place made

    United States: Connecticut, Bridgeport

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    Medicine and Science: Mathematics
    Science & Mathematics

    Data Source

    National Museum of American History

    Subject

    Mathematics
    Mathematical Recreations

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-45c8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

    Record ID

    nmah_694583

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