"The Whitehead & Hoag Company"
date: label: Date
content: 1900–10
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular, with rounded corners, upper and bottom edges slightly curved, featuring printed advertisement in black typeface on off-white background: "Compliments of The Whitehead & Hoag Co., High Grade Advertising Novelties with Merit. Newark, N.J., Branches in all large Cities." "Whitehead & Hoag Co.,Newark, N.J." in very fine print below. Reverse features color illustration of nude male with bird-like wings and diaphanous red fabric draped across his body; he embraces nude female with small blue, fairy-like wings. Lid hinged on side. Striker in recessed groove on bottom.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Newark, New Jersey, USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1980-14-1357
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: Plated metal, printed celluloid
label: Dimensions
content: 7 x 3.7 x 1 cm (2 3/4 x 1 7/16 x 3/8 in. )