Cigar case | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1905

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900

Medium: Sterling silver
Dimensions: 5 × 3 3/4 in. (12.7 × 9.53 cm, 126 g)
Credit Line: American Arts Purchase Fund
Accession Number: 1973.25.5
Geography: Manufactured in Newark, New Jersey
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Containers
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Bibliography

Charles L. Venable, D. Albert Soeffing, and Tom Jenkins, Silver in America, 1840–1940: A Century of Splendor, ed. Gerald W. R. Ward, exh. cat. (Seattle, WA: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 254, fig. 9.4

Barbara M. Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward, eds., Silver in American Life: Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1979), 181, no. 189, ill

"Acquisitions, 1973," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 1 (Summer 1974), 87

Object copyright

Additional information

Marks

"STERLING/ U [with forked tops] B [the two overlapping]/ 925 FINE" incuse on the back, interior, center.

The initials "CW" in foliate script on back of case.

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