Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular case with raised, cyma-edged lid and bottom, the snap-closure, hinged lid engraved with scrolled ovals at corners and ivy leaves at sides framing "J. H. Mahoney Jr." in script across center, while the bottom underside has a bright-cut and wrigglework, Eastlake-style, interlocked C design at center bordered by thin, wavy, checkered and dotted bands. Box sides are made of a die-stamped. geometric-patterned band of inverted triangles, circles and dots. Reverse-cyma tab at center front of lid. Traces of gold wash on inteiror. Underside of tab is struck "[ST]EPLING, (sic)" and "S F.CAL."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California
label: place sold; place used
content: United States: California, San Francisco
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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.60.1797
label: catalog number
content: 60.1797
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 2 1/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 5.3975 cm x 8.5725 cm