"Blackpool"
date: label: Date
content: 1900–10
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular, with curved corners, featuring printed decoration of coat-of-arms in black, gold, blue, red, silver, against beige ground, inscribed above "Blackpool" and below, inside banner "Progress"; reverse features image of large 19th century style building with 2 turrets, each with flag inscribed "Palace" and adjacent steel tower with flag inscribed "Tower", all situated on coast with beach, people, water and sailboats in foreground, inscribed below "The Palace & Tower, Blackpool." Side panel printed in light green, with red and black cartouche, inscribed in center "C.E B. & Co., REGD. No.430409", below cartouche inscribed "Printed in Rhineland." Opposite side panel green with red and black decorative cartouch. Lid hinged on side, inscribed on lid "Wm Rawlinson," thumb catch on opposite side. Striker in recessed groove on bottom.
place: label: manufactured in
content: England or 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: 1980-14-413
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: 5.9 x 3.7 x 1 cm (2 5/16 x 1 7/16 x 3/8 in. )