Cigarette Case
Cigarette Case
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- Description
- Oblong, rounded rectangular, niello case with overall, delicate scrolling vines and tendrils on a stippled ground, interrupted only by an empty, central, circular reserve with bright-cut borders on its spring-loaded, hinged lid. Circular push-button catch. Gold washed interior has two, thin, elastic retainers. Inside lid is struck with "84" in a clipped-corner surround, city mark of St. George slaying the dragon in conforming surround and the raised Cyrillic letters "П.А" in rectangle; inside back half is struck with assayer's mark "[В.С] / 1886" in rectangle, "84" in clipped-corner surround, St. George slaying the dragon, and "П.А" in rectangle.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- case, cigarette
- date made
- 1886
- place made
- Russia: Moskva, Moscow
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- niello (decoration material)
- gold (interior wash material)
- steel (catch material)
- elastic (retainers material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 4.445 cm x 9.525 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2017
- catalog number
- 60.2017
- 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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