"Chuck Luck Pocket Match Safe and Dice Box"
date: label: Date
content: patented 1893
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Oblong, with rounded corners, featuring central, raised decoration of two donkey heads, each facing the other, between them is inscription "Three Of A Kind", all framed by twisted ropework. Plain case lid flips open at left of decoration by pressing small metal button on top, upper left. At right is plain slip-off cover that conceals pair of miniature dice. Reverse features raised decoration of delicate arabesques surrounding a central, empty, oval reserve that is framed with ropework, all reverse ornament framed again with twisted ropework. Striker is on bottom of slip-off cover.
place: label: manufactured in
content: USA
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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: 1980-14-17
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 brass
label: Dimensions
content: 3.4 x 7.5 x 1.1 cm (1 5/16 x 2 15/16 x 7/16 in. )