Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: late 19th or early 20th century
label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Smooth, round-ended rectangular case with spring-loaded, hinged lid featuring an applied, horizontal oval, polychrome enamel of a black-spotted Jack Russell terrier with red collar, standing facing left in a softly focused landscape of warm greens, oranges and red; plain back. Push-tab catch. Gold washed interior has two yellow elastic band retainers. Inside lid lightly incised across oval "M J M" in script. Inside back top edge struck incuse at center "UR-ALPACCA" upside-down in sans serif letters. No other marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
label: place made
content: Austria
setName: label: See more items in
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.60.2014
label: catalog number
content: 60.2014
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: case, cigarette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nickel silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Physical Description
content: elastic (retainers material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; .9525 cm x 9.525 cm x 8.255 cm