Tobacco Box
Tobacco Box
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- Description
- This octagonal brass tobacco box is engraved with an image of three figures, two female and one male, with the roofs of a city behind them. An inscription is on either side of the engraving.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- box
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 cm x 15.6 cm x 6 cm; 1 3/16 in x 6 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.1001
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06398
- collector/donor number
- SAP 1090
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.1001
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Health & Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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