Matchbox
Matchbox
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- matchbox
- Other Terms
- Match Box; Fire Making Apparatus
- date made
- 19th century
- 1885 - 1915
- place made
- Japan
- Associated Place
- United States: Virginia, Alexandria
- Physical Description
- ink (decoration material)
- paper (label, patterned paper material)
- pasteboard (box sleeve and tray material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 1.27 cm x 4.445 cm x 5.715 cm
- ID Number
- DL.62.0216B
- catalog number
- 62.0216B
- accession number
- 235870
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Malcolm Westcott Hill
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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