Match Box
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- 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".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- box, match
- date made
- early 20th century
- ca 1905
- place made
- Germany
- 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
- ID Number
- DL.60.2120
- catalog number
- 60.2120
- accession number
- 200122
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, Ph.D., in memory of Ella Rice Templin
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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