Cigarette Case
notes: label: Description
content: This cigarette case belonged to Earl Silas Tupper (1907-1983), the inventor/entrepreneur behind Tupperware. The inscription on it reads “Tupper / THE KING / Pats Appld. For.” This form was advertised in the 1940s as “The shape of things to come—a telescope cigarette case.” According to an ad in the Tobacco Jobber: “You can throw it, drop it, sit on it, jump on it—it still won’t break. . . but don’t throw it at your mother-in-law. It’s so smooth and phantom in weight it wouldn’t hurt her anyway. . .The price is almost as low as her opinion of you.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Glenn O. Tupper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0597.23
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0597.23
label: accession number
content: 1992.0597
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cigarette Case
label: Object Name
content: Plastic Cigarette Case
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic, polyethylene (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.1 cm x 5.8 cm x 3.1 cm; 2 13/16 in x 2 5/16 in x 1 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 15/16 in x 2 7/16 in x 1 3/8 in; 7.46125 cm x 6.19125 cm x 3.4925 cm