Match Safe
date: label: date made
content: 1907
name: label: maker
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Plain, rounded rectangular case with side-hinged lid and shallow faceted sides, one side (hinge at left) engraved "JCV" in ribbon script. Strike plate at bottom. Gold washed interior. Collar outside is struck incuse above monogram with date mark of scissors or shears to left of "PAT.APPLIED FOR" in sans serif letters, and on opposite side with Gorham trademark (right-facing lion passant in clipped-corner square, anchor in shield, and gothic or Old English "G" in clipped-corner square) next to "STERLING" in sans serif letters and "B1215" in serif letters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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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.60.2154
label: catalog number
content: 60.2154
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: match safe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; .635 cm x 6.35 cm x 3.81 cm