Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: 1893
name: label: maker
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Rounded rectangular case with hinged lid featuring a polychrome enamel depicting a nude nymph or female sprite with small transparent wings and gauzy drapery over her midsection, sitting on a grassy bank with calm body of water to left as she looks at a yellow butterfly perched on her left forefinger; softly focused backdrop of blues, greens and purples. Concave back is engraved "GBB" in conjoined script. Pin closure with two tabs at opposite ends of lid and back. Gold washed interior has a removable retainer stamped "STERLING" on reverse. Bottom inside edge of back is struck incuse with Gorham trademark (lion passant facing right, anchor, and gothic or Old English "G"), "STERLING" in sans serif letters, "190" and date mark of a double hemisphere world map; inside lid and back are both stamped "191" next to hinge.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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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.60.2041
label: catalog number
content: 60.2041
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: 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm