Object Details
- 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
- 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
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Mathematical Recreations
- Record ID
- nmah_694583
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-45c8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
