Match Safe
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Rounded rectangular case with side-hinged lid, one side (hinge at right) features a repousse chased horse's head, facing left, against crossed riding crops with large horseshoe above and three- and four-leaf clovers in the corners; plain, concave back is engraved "LA" in intertwined, shaded foliate script. Gold washed interior. Incurved strike plate on bottom. Collar outside is struck incuse above decoration with trademark "(stag crest) / RW&S" in gothic or Old English letters, "STERLING" in sans serif letters and "871".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Wallingford
topic: label: Subject
content: Personal Accessories
label: Subject
content: matches
label: Subject
content: Smoking
label: Subject
content: Tobacco Use
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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.60.2158
label: catalog number
content: 60.2158
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 (interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 6.6675 cm x 4.445 cm