Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: Clipped-corner, engine-turned, rectangular case with bright-cut, relief-decorated edges; the snap-closure, hinged lid features a black band border and an inset, white guilloche oval with polychrome enamel basket of flowers suspended from a pink bowknot at center. Purple oval cabochon push-button catch with additional lifting tab at one end of lid. Gold washed interior has two spring retainers. Assembly numbers struck inside lid and back. No other marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Europe
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, Ph.D., in memory of Ella Rice Templin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2038
label: catalog number
content: 60.2038
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: case, cigarette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: stone (push button material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 in; .9525 cm x 8.255 cm x 5.08 cm