Cigarette Case
date: label: date made
content: late 19th or early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: Smooth, unornamented, convex, rounded square case with snap-closure, hinged lid featuring a polychrome enamel of a Saint Bernard, depicted from the neck up facing left, inset at lower right. Push-tab catch with additional tab at one end of lid. Gold washed interior has loops for elastic band retainers. Top edge of inside back struck at center "800" in a rounded surround. No other marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy
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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.60.2011
label: catalog number
content: 60.2011
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: gold (interior wash material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (catch mechanism material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 3 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 1.27 cm x 8.5725 cm x 8.5725 cm