Cigarette Case
Cigarette Case
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- Description
- Smooth, unornamented, convex, rounded rectangular case with spring-loaded, hinged lid featuring a polychrome enamel of a fashionable, wasp-waisted woman in blue and white walking outfit resting a parasol behind her shoulders inset within an engraved rocky seacoast. Push-tab catch. Gold washed interior has two white elastic band retainers. Inside back is struck with a right-facing dog head between "3" and "A" in a coffin-shaped surround, a raised roman "A" in clipped-corner rectangle, and "G.A.S." in raised roman letters in a rounded rectangle.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- case, cigarette
- date made
- 1866 - 1872
- ca 1885
- place made
- Austria: Vienna state, Vienna
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- enamel (decoration material)
- gold (interior wash material)
- wire, steel (catch mechanism; pins at ends of elastic material)
- elastic (retainers material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 1.5875 cm x 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2005
- catalog number
- 60.2005
- accession number
- 200122
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, Ph.D., in memory of Ella Rice Templin
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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