Bowlers
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1910
name: label: Manufacturer
content: F.S. Gilbert
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Oblong, curved lid and sides, raised c-scroll motifs at slightly protruding and rounded corners, featuring raised decoration of bowler in mid stride, 2 players behind him, swags and flowers above, background of swirl motifs, lid features smaller reserve of 5 bowling pins in a row. Reverse features empty reserve, c-scrolls, swags, flowers and beading on lid. Lid hinged on side. Striker incorporated into decorative c-scroll on bottom.
place: label: manufactured in
content: North Attleboro, Massachusetts, 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: 1978-146-179
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
label: Dimensions
content: 6.6 x 3.9 x 179 cm (2 5/8 x 1 9/16 x 70 1/2 in. )