Friction Matches
Friction Matches
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- matches
- Other Terms
- Matches, Package of; Fire Making Apparatus
- date made
- 19th century
- Physical Description
- phosphorus (match heads material)
- potassium chlorate (match heads material)
- aspen or pine (matchsticks material)
- paper, wove (box and cover material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 3.81 cm x 6.6675 cm
- ID Number
- 1977.0804.02
- accession number
- 1977.0804
- catalog number
- 1977.0804.02
- Credit Line
- Gift of Herbert R. Collins
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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