Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: mid to late 19th century
label: date made
content: 1872 - 1922
notes: label: Description
content: Round-sided, rectangular case with identical, repousse chased decoration on the inset, flat, snap-closure, hinged lid and flat bottom featuring an asymmetrical, opposed ruffled C-scroll reserve alongside a large, foliate, split scroll with smaller foliate scrolls and flowers elsewhere. Angled tab at lid front. Gold washed interior. Reserve on lid scratched "MV" at a later date. Two small hallmarks are struck within the design at end opposite the reserve on lid and next to the reserve on bottom, "AP" in raised sans serif letters in a notched rectangle and a right-facing Diana head (Dianakopf) with illegible number and letter in a five-petal flower.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Austria
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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.60.2043
label: catalog number
content: 60.2043
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: case, cigarette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 9.525 cm x 6.0325 cm