Safety Matches
date: label: date made
content: ca 1896
notes: label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Sweden
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of M. F. Savage
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.175962
label: catalog number
content: 175962
label: accession number
content: 31372
objectType: label: Object Name
content: matches
label: Object Type
content: slow-matches
label: Other Terms
content: Matches; Fire Making Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: potassium chlorate (match heads material)
label: Physical Description
content: wax (matchsticks material)
label: Physical Description
content: aspen or pine (matchsticks; box sleeve and tray material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper, wove (box sleeve label and tray covering material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (box sleeve label material)
label: Physical Description
content: red phosphorus (striking medium material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 1.905 cm x 5.715 cm x 3.81 cm