Match Safe
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Nouveau-style, rectangular case with side-hinged, serpentine-top lid and high-shouldered curved sides featuring identical, symmetrical, repousse decoration on front and back of a pointed bulb shape flanked by small calla lilies springing from pairs of curved drops and sinuous ribbons; triangular boss and supple streamers on lid. Convex strike plate at bottom. Gold washed interior. Collar front and back are struck at center "STERLING" in raised sans serif letters. No other marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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.60.2135
label: catalog number
content: 60.2135
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: 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 5/8 in; .9525 cm x 6.985 cm x 4.1275 cm