Matchbook Holder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
label: patent date
content: 1916-05-23
label: patent date
content: 1916-05-23
notes: label: Description
content: Slim, wedge-shaped, rectangular case comprised of a hinged front cover with engine-turned ribbed bands and blank circular reserve at one corner and a plain, hinged back cover, both attached to a round-bottom holder with two small tabs to keep the matchbook in place. Inside back cover is struck incuse at bottom center "STERLING", above trademark "EZ" and "OPE" in a sideways "S" and "PAT.MAY,23-16", all in sans serif letters. Pattern registration mark "52" scratched inside bottom left of front cover and top right inside of holder.
label: Description
content: John H. Scharling of Newark, NJ, received U.S. Patent No. 1,181,438 on May 23, 1916 for his "improvements in that class of pocket-cases which are adapted for the purpose of carrying therein matches, cigarettes, and the like." Scharling's company, Scharling & Co., 1885-c. 1934, produced holloware, vanity items, novelties and jewelry in silver, silverplate, nickel silver and pewter.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
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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.60.2119
label: catalog number
content: 60.2119
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: holder, matchbook
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 5/8 in; .9525 cm x 6.0325 cm x 4.1275 cm