Matchbox
- Object Name:
- Matchbox
- Object ID:
- 1922.006.39
- Description:
- Matchbox. Silver with gold wash on interior. Rectangular with rounded corners and slightly bowed ends. Cover flat with rounded edges. Straight sides. Seven-knuckle hinge on back edge. Small thumb tab on front surface of lid. Roughly symmetrical engraved decorations on lid and sides, consisting mostly of parallel lines with undulations in them. Decorative cartouche in center of lid with plain central surface engraved "W. W. Brown" in script. Bottom surface decorated with designs of parallel straight and wavy lines and intersecting chain designs. Some fine lines on inside that appear to be brush marks. On right hand end of inside surface near top are a number of symbols and letters lightly scratched into surface. At top edge of bottom portion is a lip that extends upward for lid to pass over and attach slightly. Outside surface of this lip has some small intentional scratches at right end. At left end, stamped into lip: "Coin". Evidence of adhesive label on bottom that was removed; adhesive material still there with slight tarnish pattern.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- H-0.8 W-1.8 L-2.9 inches Weight-2 oz
- Provenance:
- Part of items listed in the Pratt File as part of the B. A. Kimball collection, assumed to be the contents of one of two cabinets.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Benjamin Ames Kimball
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