Cigarette Case with Music Box
date: label: date box made
content: ca 1900
label: date musical movement made
content: ca 1812
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular case with overall engine-turned decoration, top half has hinged lid and gold washed interior while bottom half contains a music box enclosed by a friction-fit cover. Lidded half is engraved on outside front of collar below tab "bey Seethaler und Sohn" and is struck with three hallmarks at inside center of lid and bottom, a six-pointed star motif, raised script initials, and a three-banded trapezoidal shape. Musical movement is stamped on underside of plate "A CHAPUIS & BARRAL / FECIT A GENEVE / 1812" and "3430", and at base of comb "C & B", all in incuse roman letters; "A Chapuis & Barral / fecit a Geneve 1812" is etched in script across drum. Inside right edge of lid and one end inside box cover are scratched "CP2603".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Hanau
label: place musical movement made
content: Switzerland: Genève, Geneva
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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.60.1796
label: catalog number
content: 60.1796
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Box, Music
label: Object Name
content: box, music
label: Object Name
content: case, cigarette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 1 7/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 2.54 cm x 4.7625 cm x 8.5725 cm