Box
date: label: date made
content: post 1891
label: date made
content: 1893 - 1903
notes: label: Description
content: Circular container with cast openwork, friction-fit, hinged lid featuring a square-rigged, three-masted ship under sail travelling left in center medallion bordered by flowering vines and C scrolls. Die-stamped band of men and women engaged in agricultural pursuits underlined by a dot-and-pointed-leaf pattern forms container sides. Gold washed interior. Flat bottom is unmarked. Container collar is struck at sides of hinge "Germany" in sans serif letters and "800" next to a combined crescent moon and imperial crown (Reichsmark) and a raised gothic or German Renaissance "N" in pointed shield.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Hanau
setName: label: See more items in
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.60.1756
label: catalog number
content: 60.1756
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 3 3/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 4.1275 cm x 8.5725 cm x 8.255 cm