Object Details
- A. C. Gilbert Company
- Description
- This disentanglement puzzle consists of three intertwined metal rings. A paper card gives instructions on how to separate them. A mark on the card reads: No. 878. THREE RINGS PUZZLE. The text and figures, as well as the model number, correspond to those in a 1920 A.C. Gilbert catalog, hence the maker and rough date assigned.
- Reference:
- A.C. Gilbert Company, Book of Instructions for Use with Gilbert Puzzle Parties. . ., New Haven: A.C. Gilbert Company, 1920, p. 3. A copy of this booklet is online at gamearchives.org, accessed July 26, 2017.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Edith R. Meggers
- ca 1920.
- ID Number
- MA.335293
- catalog number
- 335293
- accession number
- 314637
- Object Name
- puzzle
- Puzzle
- puzzle
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 cm x 12.25 cm x 12.15 cm; 25/32 in x 4 13/16 in x 4 25/32 in
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, New Haven
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Mathematical Recreations
- Record ID
- nmah_694584
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-2c44-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
