Match Safe
Match Safe
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- Description
- Match safes were designed to hold friction matches. This one, made of metal covered with celluloid, advertises the Bethlehem Baptist Church in McKeesport, Pa.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Match Safe
- Date made
- ca 1910
- Associated Place
- United States: New Jersey
- Physical Description
- cellulose nitrate (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3.6 cm x 6.5 cm; x 1 7/16 in x 2 9/16 in
- overall: 7/16 in x 1 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in; 1.11125 cm x 3.81 cm x 6.6675 cm
- ID Number
- 2006.0098.0986
- accession number
- 2006.0098
- catalog number
- 2006.0098.0986
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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