Advertisement for "Green's Lawn Mowers"
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, curved top and bottom, featuring polychrome printed decoration, image/text reads horizontally, of lawn mower on grass lawn with path, river and castle in background, inscribed on decorative banner above "Green's," partially legible inscription on smaller banner "Silens Mesoff" [?], coat-of-arms at right, below inscribed "Lawn Mowers, Hundreds of Thousands in Use." Side panel below inscribed "Regd. Offices & Works, Smithfield Iron Works, Leeds." Reverse features red lion, coat-of-arms, unicorn on top of banner inscribed "Dieu Et Mon Droit, inscribed above "Thos. Green& Son, Ltd., Established Over Half A Century" and inscribed below "Appointed By Royal Warrant Horticulture Engineers To His Majesty The King." In fine print below inscribed "The Whitehead & Hoag [illegible print], St., London, E.C., Made in U.S.A." Side panel below inscribed "London Offices & Works, New Surrey Works, Southwark Street, S.E." Lid hinged on side. Striker 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: 1980-14-802
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: 3.9 x 7 x 1 cm (1 9/16 x 2 3/4 x 3/8 in. )