Cigarette Case
Cigarette Case
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- Description
- Smooth, unornamented, convex, rounded square case with snap-closure, hinged lid featuring a polychrome enamel of a Saint Bernard, depicted from the neck up facing left, inset at lower right. Push-tab catch with additional tab at one end of lid. Gold washed interior has loops for elastic band retainers. Top edge of inside back struck at center "800" in a rounded surround. No other marks.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- case, cigarette
- date made
- late 19th or early 20th century
- place made
- Italy
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- enamel (decoration material)
- gold (interior wash material)
- steel (catch mechanism material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 3 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 1.27 cm x 8.5725 cm x 8.5725 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2011
- catalog number
- 60.2011
- 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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