Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Rectangular, with rounded edges, featuring white enameled reserve with black enameled calender numbers, 1 through 31. Above, on lid front, is open window through which a rotating, adjustable, 7-sided, bone rod with first letters of the days of the week may be viewed. Lid opens in two opposite places; its thin, flat top hinged on upper right; when flipped up, compartment containing adjustable bone rod is revealed. Lid hinged again on upper left, below open window, and above calender, accessing match container. Reverse features inscription "Manchester Ship Canal, Opening for Traffic, Souvenir, Cunard SS Skirmisher, 1st Jan.y 1894, J.D. Macgregor". Striker on bottom. Seperate black leather case lined in blue velvet.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener
- 1887–88
- Accession Number
- 1980-14-207
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- containers
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Matchsafe
- Type
- Matchsafe
- Medium
- Silver, enamel, bone, leather case
- Dimensions
- 4.5 x 3.7 x 1 cm (1 3/4 x 1 7/16 x 3/8 in. )
- made in
- Chester, England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1980-14-207
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4efd0a863-2740-4ee6-baac-c2b1db99edec
