box, jewelry
date: label: date made
content: 1912
notes: label: Description
content: Serpentine-sided, oval box with slightly domed, friction-fit, hinged lid engraved "LT" in vertically-conjoined, shaded, scrolled letters; four, cast, pad feet have fleur-de-lis tops attached to box. Removable bottom consists of two pieces of card or pasteboard, the top piece padded and covered with purple silk velvet on top and grain-patterned, black paper on bottom, and a second piece covered with the same paper on both sides. Outside front of lid has two effaced marks above reverse-cyma tab, a left-facing lion passant guardant and raised roman letter "n", both in clipped-corner shields. Outside front of box collar is struck "J.H." in raised sans serif letters in a rectangle next to an anchor, a left-facing lion passant guardant and raised roman letter "n", all in clipped-corner shields.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Birmingham, Birmingham
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.60.3898
label: catalog number
content: 60.3898
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Box
label: Object Name
content: box, jewelry
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet, silk (bottom covering material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (bottom covering material)
label: Physical Description
content: card (bottom layers material)
label: Measurements
content: box: 4 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in; 11.43 cm x 7.874 cm