Sentry Box with Guardsman
date: label: Date
content: 1886–87
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Sampson Mordan & Company
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: In the form of a sentry box, the body rectangular, the roof (lid) triangular, featuring polychrome enamel decoration of a royal guardsman standing in doorway at attention; he wears full uniform including belted red jacket, black trousers, tall black bearskin hat and holds bayonet at his side. Lid hinged on upper left side. Striker on bottom.
place: label: manufactured in
content: London, England
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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: 1982-23-610
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 x 2.4 x 1 cm (2 3/8 x 15/16 x 3/8 in. )