Cigarette Lighter
Cigarette Lighter
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lighter
- Other Terms
- Lighter; Fire Making Apparatus
- date made
- after 1928
- place made
- United States
- Physical Description
- brass (case, exterior decoration material)
- enamel (exterior decoration material)
- chrome plate (thumb piece, plunger, snuffer arm, ears, top plate material)
- steel (spark wheel material)
- cotton (wick, wadding material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in; 1.27 cm x 4.445 cm x 3.4925 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2208
- catalog number
- 60.2208
- accession number
- 200122
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, Ph.D., in memory of Ella Rice Templin
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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