Safety First
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- Creator
- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- Description
- Before the age of safety matches, matchbooks, and lighters, was the age of delicately intricate or simply functional matchsafes. Known as ‘vesta cases’ in Britain for their association with Vesta, the Roman goddess of fire and the hearth, matchsafes reigned as king when early friction matches were considered highly combustible and unreliable. To avoid the...
- Published Date
- Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:00:04 +0000
- Type
- Blog posts
- Smithsonian staff publications
- Blog posts
- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- Topic
- Design
- Record ID
- posts_26e0febb03a4540878c4aee94a5173a3
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