Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: mid to late 19th century
label: date made
content: 1886
notes: label: Description
content: Rounded rectangular, niello case with overall, delicate scrolling vines and tendrils on a stippled ground; spring-loaded, hinged lid features a bright-cut bordered oval with Cossack riding a galloping horse to the left with mountains in distance, while back includes a similarly bordered, circular reserve engraved "AEA" in flecked script. Oval push-button catch. Matte silver interior. Inside lid is struck with a combined standard and city mark of "84" and St. George slaying the dragon in conforming surround next to the raised Latin letters "G.K" in rectangle; inside back has "G.K" in rectangle and assayer's mark "A·P / 1886", "84" and St. George slaying the dragon, all in clipped-corner surrounds.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Russia: Moskva, Moscow
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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.60.2019
label: catalog number
content: 60.2019
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: case, cigarette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: niello (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 in x 3 3/8 in; 1.27 cm x 5.08 cm x 8.5725 cm