Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: 1888 - 1921
notes: label: Description
content: Smooth, unornamented, convex, rounded rectangular case with spring-loaded, hinged lid featuring a polychrome enamel of a mustachioed man in foxhunting attire or pinks riding a chestnut gelding facing left inset on front. Push-tab catch with two additional tabs at opposite ends of lid and back. Gold washed interior has two white elastic band retainers. Inside lid and back are struck "G.A.S." in sans serif letters and with a right-facing dog head between "3" and "A" in a coffin-shaped surround; inside back also stamped "800" incuse and with a combined crescent moon and imperial crown in surround (Reichsmark).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Austria: Vienna state, Vienna
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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.60.2007
label: catalog number
content: 60.2007
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: case, cigarette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire, steel (catch mechanism; pins at elastic ends material)
label: Physical Description
content: elastic (retainers material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 1.27 cm x 6.0325 cm x 8.5725 cm