Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: ca 1820
label: date made
content: early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular case with opaque white champleve enamel on the snap-closure, hinged lid featuring a geometric design composed of small squares; engine-turned sides and plain bottom. Tab at center front of lid. Gold washed interior is engraved inside lid "S.D. / 1820" with "CLK" lightly scratched below. Inside lid and bottom are struck with two marks, an effaced maker's mark with raised roman letter "C" and illegible motif in a horizontal diamond or lozenge and a left-facing boar head in conforming surround.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
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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.60.2046
label: catalog number
content: 60.2046
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: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 2 1/8 in x 3 in; 1.905 cm x 5.3975 cm x 7.62 cm