Match Safe
date: label: date made
content: ca 1896 - ca 1904
notes: label: Description
content: Silver-gilt or vermeil, rounded rectangular case with side-hinged lid featuring an identical, asymmetrical, repousse scrollwork reserve on front and back; one reserve (hinge at left) contains a polychrome enamel painting of a cigar or cigarillo placed against crossed matchsticks on a white ground, while the other bears the engraved script initials "CWT". Strike plate at bottom. Collar outside above enamel decoration is struck incuse with trademark "RS" pierced horizontally by a right-facing feathered arrow and "STERLING" in sans serif letters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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.60.2161
label: catalog number
content: 60.2161
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 and interior wash material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in; .9525 cm x 6.985 cm x 3.4925 cm