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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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Mathematical Recreations
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_694583