Match Safe
Match Safe
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- Description
- Rounded rectangular case with incurved, side-hinged lid featuring an identical repousse vignette on both sides of a mustachioed man paddling a canoe to the lower right with wooded, tree-lined banks behind him. Faint, gold washed interior. Strike plate at bottom. Collar outside is struck incuse on one side (hinge at left) "STERLING" in sans serif letters.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- match safe
- date made
- late 19th century
- place made
- United States
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- gold (interior wash material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in;.9525 cm x 6.0325 cm x 3.81 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2159
- catalog number
- 60.2159
- 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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