Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: 1886
notes: label: Description
content: Oblong, rounded rectangular, niello case with overall, delicate scrolling vines and tendrils on a stippled ground, interrupted only by an empty, central, circular reserve with bright-cut borders on its spring-loaded, hinged lid. Circular push-button catch. Gold washed interior has two, thin, elastic retainers. Inside lid is struck with "84" in a clipped-corner surround, city mark of St. George slaying the dragon in conforming surround and the raised Cyrillic letters "П.А" in rectangle; inside back half is struck with assayer's mark "[В.С] / 1886" in rectangle, "84" in clipped-corner surround, St. George slaying the dragon, and "П.А" in rectangle.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Russia: Moskva, Moscow
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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 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.60.2017
label: catalog number
content: 60.2017
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: case, cigarette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: niello (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (catch material)
label: Physical Description
content: elastic (retainers material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 4.445 cm x 9.525 cm