Plated copper alloy match case in the shape of a bust of Ulysses S. Grant. Base flips open to allow access to matches there is a striker on the very bottom of the case. Item donor Susan H. Douglas dates the match case to the 1868 Presidential campaign.
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Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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