FIGURITE, 1900
- Inventor
- Unknown
- Invention date
- Unknown
- Manufacturing date
- 1900
- Manufacturing location
- USA
- Manufacturer
- Besse Boyton Boys Clothes & Children’s Shoes
- Dimensions
- L 22.5 x 22.5
- Reference Number
- 198
History and Functionality
«Besse Boyton Boys Clothes & Children’s Shoes”, manufacturer of clothes and shoes for children, developed an advertising product to help children learn the four operations.
This item was manufactured in the early 1900s in the USA.
Advertising on the Figurite says “You figure right when you buy Besse Boyton Boys clothes & children’s shoes” playing on the two meanings of the word “figure.”
With this disc you can do all the multiplications for combinations ranging from 2 x 2 to 1 x 16.
Additions, subtractions and divisions are also feasible.
