Bird Motif
date: label: Date
content: 1870–80
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Huntley, Boorne, & Stevens
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular, curved sides, snuff-box style container, featuring cover of black printed decoration on gold ground of bird with long feathered tail perched on flowered branch; thumb catch to right inscribed "Bryant & May's Wax Vetsas, Made in England", small cross design on rest of body. Striker on reverse.
place: label: manufactured in
content: England
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: 1980-14-571
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 tin, printed , gilded
label: Dimensions
content: 4.6 x 3 x 1.2 cm (1 13/16 x 1 3/16 x 1/2 in. )