Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: ca 1891
notes: label: Description
content: Rounded rectangular case engraved overall with a dense network of bright-cut tropical leaves and five-petaled whorled flowers (possibly plumeria) with wrigglework between. Interior has two, white, elastic band retainers. Circular push-button catch. Inside back is struck with the raised Cyrillic letters "Д·Н" in a rectangle and a combined standard and city mark of "84" and St. George slaying the dragon in a conforming surround; inside lid is struck with assayer's mark "А·А / 1891", "84", and St. George slaying the dragon, all in clipped-corner surrounds with "Д·Н" in a rectangle at right.
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.60.2004
label: catalog number
content: 60.2004
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: case, cigarette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (catch mechanism material)
label: Physical Description
content: elastic (retainers material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 2 7/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 9.525 cm x 7.3025 cm