Cigar and Matches
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1900
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Reeves and Sillcocks
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular, with rounded corners, featuring raised scroll and bead ornament, beads frame asymmetrical, enameled, central reserve depicting a burning, brown cigar, beneath which are two wooden matches, one of which is burnt. Reverse features same raised ornament, central reserve inscribed AJM. Lid hinged on side. Striker in recessed groove on bottom.
place: label: manufactured in
content: New York, New York, USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1978-146-378
objectType: label: Type
content: containers
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: Matchsafe
label: Type
content: Matchsafe
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Silver, enamel
label: Dimensions
content: 5.7 x 3.1 x 1 cm (2 1/4 x 1 1/4 x 3/8 in. )