Match Safe
date: label: patent date
content: ca 1904
label: patent date
content: 1904-11-29
name: label: retailer
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Round-cornered, rectangular case with two-tone gold (yellow and rose) bands across the flat lid and back; blank trapezoidal reserve at one corner of lid. Gold washed interior; both halves are lipped to hold matches in place. Push-tab catch. Lip of lid is struck incuse along top with Gorham trademark (right-facing lion passant in clipped-corner square, anchor in shield, and gothic or Old English "G" in clipped-corner square), "STERLING", "B" and "7247/20", and along left "ART MFG CO. N Y PAT NOV 29-04" in sans serif letters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place retailed
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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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.60.2148
label: catalog number
content: 60.2148
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: match safe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (exterior decoration, interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 1 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 6.35 cm x 4.7625 cm