Object Details
- Description
- Rounded rectangular, niello case with overall, delicate scrolling vines and tendrils on a stippled ground; spring-loaded, hinged lid features a bright-cut bordered oval with Cossack riding a galloping horse to the left with mountains in distance, while back includes a similarly bordered, circular reserve engraved "AEA" in flecked script. Oval push-button catch. Matte silver interior. Inside lid is struck with a combined standard and city mark of "84" and St. George slaying the dragon in conforming surround next to the raised Latin letters "G.K" in rectangle; inside back has "G.K" in rectangle and assayer's mark "A·P / 1886", "84" and St. George slaying the dragon, all in clipped-corner surrounds.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- mid to late 19th century
- 1886
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, Ph.D., in memory of Ella Rice Templin
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- niello (decoration material)
- gold (interior wash material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 2 in x 3 3/8 in; 1.27 cm x 5.08 cm x 8.5725 cm
- Object Name
- case, cigarette
