Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: late 19th or early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: Smooth, unornamented, rounded rectangular case with hinged lid featuring a polychrome enamel depicting a white and a chestnut horse, sticking their heads out over their stall and looking down at three dogs, two, black-and-white, long-haired hounds (possibly Borzois) and a small brown-black dog (possibly a rat terrier) with gold collar. Back engraved with monogram "hGB". Oval, red cabochon push-button catch with additional lifting tab at one end of lid. Gold washed interior has loops for elastic band retainers. Inside back bottom edge struck at center "S.M." in raised roman letters and "900", both in rectangles.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Europe
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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.60.2013
label: catalog number
content: 60.2013
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: stone (push button material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 4 1/8 in x 3 in; .9525 cm x 10.4775 cm x 7.62 cm