Match Safe
date: label: date made
content: 1914
name: label: maker
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
notes: label: Description
content: Match safes were designed to hold friction matches. This one, made of metal and covered with celluloid, has an image of an iron cross, and another of a German helmet, sword handle, and gun, and the words “Fur Unterstutsung der Wittwen, Waisen und Kriegsnotleidenden in Deutschland u. Oestereich-Ungarn.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.1617
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1617
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: match safe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (covering material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.5 cm x 3.6 cm x .8 cm; 2 9/16 in x 1 7/16 in x 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 7/16 in; 6.6675 cm x 3.81 cm x 1.11125 cm