Snuffbox
date: label: date made
content: 1780
notes: label: Description
content: Bright-cut engraved oval box decorated with floral garlands and swags bordered by patterned bands across its flat, hinged lid, straight sides and flat bottom; zig-zag bordered oval reserve at center of lid contains "HOK" in conjoined flecked script, while identical reserve on bottom bears a heraldic device depicting the crest of a dexter arm in armour embowed holding a dagger or sword erect proper on a heraldic wreath encircled by the motto "PRO·PATRIA·ET·REGE" ("For country and king"). Gold washed interior. Inside lid is struck "FO" in raised roman letters in a rectangle next to a left-facing lion passant in clipped-corner shield, leopard's head crowned in rounded shield and raised roman letter "e" in clipped-corner shield.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Ellen Washington Bellamy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1061
label: catalog number
content: 60.1061
label: accession number
content: 68743
objectType: label: Object Name
content: snuffbox
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 1 5/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 4.1275 cm x 8.89 cm