Snuffbox
Snuffbox
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- Description
- Rectangular case with overall engine-turned decoration, interrupted on its friction-fit, hinged lid by bright-cut and wrigglework engraved scrolls forming a triangle around an oval reserve engraved "George / -from- / Jimmy." Bottom underside has a smaller, empty reserve formed by two S scrolls. Tab along lid front. Gold washed interior. Inside lid and bottom are struck with an assay mark (Radlpunze) of "13" in a segmented circle with date numbers "1", "6" and "0" visible, and with raised script letters "FP(?)" in an oval.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- snuffbox
- date made
- ca 1860
- place made
- Austria: Vienna state, Vienna
- Czechoslovakia
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- gold (interior wash material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5/8 in x 1 7/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 4.7625 cm x 8.255 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.1806
- catalog number
- 60.1806
- 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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