Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: 1896 - 1914
notes: label: Description
content: Rounded rectangular, niello case with overall scrollwork accented by arrow-shaped leaves on a wrigglework ground; spring-loaded, hinged lid has "КАВКАЗЪ" in large Cyrillic letters arched across top, while back includes a central, shield-shaped reserve engraved "JSWJ\r" in conjoined shaded script. Semi-circular, push-button catch with additional lifting tab at one end of lid. Gold washed interior has two, thin, metal strap retainers. Inside lid and back are both struck with an intaglio, left-facing kokoshnik or assay mark containing "84", a left-facing profile of a woman in headwrap and possibly "ИЛ" ("IL") at right, next to the raised letters "CMH(?)" in a surround.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Russia
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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.60.2018
label: catalog number
content: 60.2018
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: case, cigarette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: niello (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 3 3/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 6.35 cm x 9.525 cm