Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: Thin, open-top, engine-turned case with a removable snakeskin cover or insert slipped inside. Case has a concave rim with applied fasces decoration; its front features opaque blue enamel stripes and an empty, rectangular reserve applied at one corner. Struck incuse on front below rim at center "935". No other marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Austria
label: place made
content: Germany
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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.60.2040
label: catalog number
content: 60.2040
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: case, cigarette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: snakeskin (cover exterior material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (cover material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 8.255 cm x 7.3025 cm