Cigarette Case
Cigarette Case
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- Description
- Rectangular case with opaque white champleve enamel on the snap-closure, hinged lid featuring a geometric design composed of small squares; engine-turned sides and plain bottom. Tab at center front of lid. Gold washed interior is engraved inside lid "S.D. / 1820" with "CLK" lightly scratched below. Inside lid and bottom are struck with two marks, an effaced maker's mark with raised roman letter "C" and illegible motif in a horizontal diamond or lozenge and a left-facing boar head in conforming surround.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- case, cigarette
- date made
- ca 1820
- early 20th century
- place made
- France
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- enamel (decoration material)
- gold (interior wash material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/4 in x 2 1/8 in x 3 in; 1.905 cm x 5.3975 cm x 7.62 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2046
- catalog number
- 60.2046
- 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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