match safe
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
notes: label: Description
content: Match safes were designed to hold friction matches. This one, made of metal covered with celluloid, advertises F. W. Fentzlaff wet goods and bowling alleys in Newark, N.J.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.0922
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.0922
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Match Safe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.8 cm x 3.5 cm x .8 cm; 2 5/16 in x 1 3/8 in x 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 15/32 in; 5.715 cm x 3.81 cm x 1.2065 cm