Manufacturer/Distributor: Sherms, Inc., Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Boo Boogy Man Puzzle” is a logic puzzle involving three missionaries and three cannibals.
Number of Pages: 96.
Date: 1946.
Publisher/Distributor: Johnson Smith & Company, Detroit, Michigan.
Condition: Poor – front cover damaged and torn, most pages have deep creases, some pages have tears.
Notes: none.
Manufacturer/Distributor: SALITE.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1930’s.
Condition: Good – some crackling on head and face, no cord – does not work.
Description: “Hot-Cha!!” Little Boy Cigarette Lighter” is a lighter with a little black boy with his pants down and a hole in his buttocks where a cigarette can be lit.
Number of Pages: 72.
Date: unknown.
Publisher/Distributor: Ezra A. Cook, Publisher, 26 E. Van Buren Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Condition: Very good.
Notes: Sold in JSC catalog.
Number of Pages: 34.
Date: 1932.
Publisher/Distributor: Johnson Smith & Company, Racine, Wisconsin.
Condition: Very good – some damage to front cover.
Notes: none.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “My Old Country Seat” is a ceramic toilet on wheels with a little black boy pushing it.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Japan.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Next” is a ceramic outhouse with a little black child inside and one waiting to get in.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Possibly Adams
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “One Pair of Undressed Black Kids” is a box that looks like it is going to have a pair of gloves inside, but instead it has two black children.
Manufacturer/Distributor: F. L. Shafer, Chicago, Illinois.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1900.
Condition: Very good – box is slightly damaged.
Description: “One Pair of Undressed Black Kids” is a box with two tiny black babies inside. The babies are attached to a card that someone wrote on — “Nov. 26, 1900, From your old ‘Sweetheart’ wishing you a Happy Birthday: May you have many more.”
Manufacturer/Distributor: L. A. W. Novelty Company, Springfield, Massachusetts.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “One Pair Undressed Black Kids” is a box that looks like it will be for a pair of gloves, but inside is a tiny pair of black children.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Sold in the Johnson Smith & Company Catalog.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good – Sambo is on an original card, Dinah is a photocopy.
Description: “Sambo and Dinah Performing Coons” is a set of puppets, made of paper, that you put together according to the directions. When they are together they can dance.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Germany.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Sambo Pin” is a very small pin of a black man with eyes that move and when you turn him upside down his red tongue comes out.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Sambo Puzzle” is a head of a black man with a ball in his mouth. The object of the puzzle is to take the ball out of his mouth.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Adams.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Good – Card holding the puzzle has two large creases.
Description: “Sambo Puzzle on Card” is a metal puzzle with a ball in the mouth. The object of the puzzle is to take the ball out using the fingers and not the fingernails.
Manufacturer/distributor: appears to be
JSC but not. Copycat
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: abt. Not known
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Sambo Puzzle With Bag” is a metal puzzle of a head with a ball in the mouth. The object is to remove the ball using only your fingers and not your finger nails.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Germany.
Age/Date: abt. 1920’s.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “The Nigger Outfit” is a hat, knit face cover, and eyes and teeth with elastic bands.
