Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: 1891
label: date made
content: ca 1930
notes: label: Description
content: Slim, rectangular, aqua guilloche enamel case with snap-closure, hinged lid featuring a polychrome enamel painting of an amorous couple in a pastoral landscape with grassy banks, blue water and distant mountains, the man with string instrument on his back embraces the dishevelled shepherdess; thin, bright-cut border. Tab at front center of lid. Gold washed interior. Inside bottom is struck incuse at top "MADE IN AUSTRIA" arched over "AK / 925" in an irregular pentagon, and "STERLING" and "SILVER", all in sans serif letters; inside lid and bottom are stamped "2" near hinge.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Austria
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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.60.2045
label: catalog number
content: 60.2045
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: gold (interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 5.3975 cm x 7.9375 cm