Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Whitehead & Hoag Company
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Rectangular, curved top and bottom, featuring polychrome printed decoration, image/text reads horizontally, of lawn mower on grass lawn with path, river and castle in background, inscribed on decorative banner above "Green's," partially legible inscription on smaller banner "Silens Mesoff" [?], coat-of-arms at right, below inscribed "Lawn Mowers, Hundreds of Thousands in Use." Side panel below inscribed "Regd. Offices & Works, Smithfield Iron Works, Leeds." Reverse features red lion, coat-of-arms, unicorn on top of banner inscribed "Dieu Et Mon Droit, inscribed above "Thos. Green& Son, Ltd., Established Over Half A Century" and inscribed below "Appointed By Royal Warrant Horticulture Engineers To His Majesty The King." In fine print below inscribed "The Whitehead & Hoag [illegible print], St., London, E.C., Made in U.S.A." Side panel below inscribed "London Offices & Works, New Surrey Works, Southwark Street, S.E." Lid hinged on side. Striker on bottom.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener
- 1900–10
- Accession Number
- 1980-14-802
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- containers
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Matchsafe
- Type
- Matchsafe
- Medium
- Plated metal, printed celluloid
- Dimensions
- 3.9 x 7 x 1 cm (1 9/16 x 2 3/4 x 3/8 in. )
- manufactured in
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1980-14-802
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4dab1230f-7084-4abb-a8af-1ec574e6a028
