Skip to main content
Advanced Search
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Match Safe
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Match Safe

Manufacturer Enterprise Manufacturing Co.
CultureAmerican
Date1876
MediumPressed glass
DimensionsOverall: 4 1/2 x 2 5/8 in. (11.4 x 6.7 cm)
InscribedBack inscribed: "PATd June 13, 1876"
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Paul Brandwein
Object number79.166.16
Not on view
Published ReferencesRevi, AMERICAN PRESSED GLASS & FIGURE BOTTLES, pg. 338-340, Patented June 13, 1876 by Washington Beck of Pittsburgh. Lindsey, AMERICAN HISTORICAL GLASS, no. 426.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
Match safe
1850-1899
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
Match safe
ca. 1880-1895
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Isabella Glass Works
Calabash Bottle
1845-1860
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Art Manufacturing Company
Match case
ca. 1930
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Fislerville Glass Works
Calabash Bottle
ca. 1850
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Jesse H. Whitehurst
Jenny Lind
December 1850
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
Covered Match Holder
ca. 1850-1870
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Food safe
19th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Tiffany & Company
Match Box Cover
ca. 1930
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2022.
Elisabeth Hase
Untitled (match boxes and match sticks)
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.
Unknown
Wall fragment
Ptolemaic Period, 170-116 B.C.E.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with digital camera-2008.
The Franklin Mint
The Franklin Mint History Of The United States, 1776-1973
No Date
eMuseum
Copyright © eMuseum