Cigar case
Record status
Individual type · partial
Cigar case is an object recorded by Victoria and Albert Museum. The museum's brief description reads: Cigar case once owned by Richard D'Oyly Carte. Museum description: Cigar case, crocodile-skin, with leather interior and hallmarked silver tips on corners, engraved inside, 'R.
D'Oyly Carte 4, Adelphi Terrace, Strand, London' The museum record gives material recorded as leather, crocodile, silver. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- leather, crocodile, silver
Identification
- Museum object name
- Cigar case
- Museum object number
- S.2833-1986
- Museum system number
- O1113514
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm materials, dimensions, maker and wider type against the museum record and a specialist reference.