Safety Matches
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- matches
- Object Type
- slow-matches
- Other Terms
- Matches; Fire Making Apparatus
- date made
- ca 1896
- place made
- Austria
- Austria: Vienna state, Vienna
- Physical Description
- potassium chlorate (match heads material)
- sulphur (match heads material)
- aluminum (match heads material)
- aspen or pine (matchsticks; box sleeve and tray material)
- dye (matchsticks material)
- paper, wove (box sleeve and tray covering material)
- ink (box sleeve label material)
- red phosphorus (striking medium material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 1.905 cm x 3.81 cm x 5.715 cm
- ID Number
- DL.175966
- catalog number
- 175966
- accession number
- 31372
- Credit Line
- Gift of M. F. Savage
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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