Match Safe
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1908
notes: label: Description
content: Match safes were designed to hold friction matches. This one, made of metal covered with celluloid, depicts the “Steamer Maquoit at Littlejohns, Me.” and “The Wanderlust Cousins Ile, Me.” Littlejohns is an island in the Cousins River, near Yarmouth, Maine.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maine
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: 2006.0098.0987
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.0987
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: 3.8 cm x 7.2 cm; x 1 1/2 in x 2 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/16 in x 1 1/2 in x 2 7/8 in; 1.11125 cm x 3.81 cm x 7.3025 cm