Match Box

Description:

Small, rectangular case with pull-out holder featuring low-relief, stamped decoration on top of a four-passenger runabout or open-air car framed by a Nouveau-style border with empty reserve at top left. Reverse-hinged, internal cover automatically flips back when tab at end is pulled, revealing gold washed interior. Inside of interior cover is struck incuse near center "800".

Date Made: early 20th centuryca 1905

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: Germany

See more items in: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life, Domestic Furnishings

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Credit Line: Gift of Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, Ph.D., in memory of Ella Rice Templin

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: DL.60.2120Catalog Number: 60.2120Accession Number: 200122

Object Name: box, match

Physical Description: silver (overall material)gold (interior wash material)Measurements: overall: 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in x 2 in; 1.27 cm x 4.1275 cm x 5.08 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-1482-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_315648

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