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Tinder Box Candlestick and Strike

c. 1939

Gordon Sanborn

Associated Names

Gordon Sanborn

Artist, American, active c. 1935

The image features a metal pot with a wooden handle, a lid with a cylindrical spout, and a flat rectangular metal piece and a hook-shaped object.

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Artwork overview

Medium

watercolor and graphite on paperboard
Credit Line

Index of American Design
Dimensions

sheet: 22.5 × 28.7 cm (8 7/8 × 11 5/16 in.)
Original IAD Object: 4 1/2" in diameter; 3 3/8" high
Accession Number

1943.8.9083

Artwork history & notes

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Gordon Sanborn

Wikidata ID

Q64572644

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