Chromatic Pitch Pipe Box: Museum Object and Cultural History
Chromatic Pitch Pipe Box: Object Name: box. Physical Description: metal (overall material). Physical Description: paint (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This box is for a Chromatic Pitch Pipe, made by an undetermined maker in Czechoslovakia, undetermined date. It is made of painted metal. The box is marked:
CHROMATIC PITCH PIPE [image of violinist] MADE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Materials, dates and provenance
- Object Name: box
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Physical Description: paint (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 3 in x 1 1/2 in x 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 3.81 cm x 1.27 cm
- Measurements: overall: 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in x 3 in; 1.27 cm x 3.81 cm x 7.62 cm
- place made: Czechoslovakia
- ID Number: 1988.0783.661
- catalog number: 1988.0783.661
- accession number: 1988.0783
- Credit Line: The Peter Kassan Collection
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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