"Brownies" Characters
date: label: Date
content: 1894
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular, with rounded corners, the front decorated with two enameled images of elfin-like "Brownies" characters, each holding a fishing pole. Both with wide eyes, rosy cheeks, protruding bellies and long, skinny legs, the figure on the left, gazing towards the right, wears a yellow cap with green pom-pom, blue shirt, white knickers, brown stockings, pointed black shoes; figure on the right, gazing left towards other character, wears a purple and black pointed cap, green shirt, off-white knickers, blue stockings, pointed brown shoes. Reverse is undecorated. Lid is hinged on right. Recessed striker on bottom.
place: label: made in
content: Providence, Rhode Island, 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: 1978-146-55
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: 6.1 x 4 x 1 cm (2 3/8 x 1 9/16 x 3/8 in. )