Snail Shell
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: In the form of a snail shell, with raised scroll work and gadrooning on sides, decorative cartouche at top near lid, decorative shell motif on lid, which flips open at wider, flat end, hinged at center, c-scrolls below. Worn hatch marks on back possibly intended as striker.
place: label: place depicted
content: probably Europe
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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: 1982-23-146
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: Brass, with evidence of silver plating
label: Dimensions
content: 4.5 x 3.5 x 2.7 cm (1 3/4 x 1 3/8 x 1 1/16 in. )