Cigarette Case 1890-1900 Tiffany & Co. This cigarette case and a related match case (41.140.3) are rare surviving examples of Tiffany & Co.s laminated metalwork, also called "mixed metal" in company records and known to the Japanese as mokume. In mokume (meaning "wood grain" or, literally, "wood eye"), thin sheets of differently colored metals and alloys are laminated, folded to increase the number of layers, cut through or bent, and, finally, hammered to produce marbleized patterns.. Cigarette Case. American. 1890-1900. Gold, silver, brass, patinated copper, gold-copper alloy, silver-copper alloy, and patinated copper-platinum-iron alloy. Made in New York, New York, United States

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Cigarette Case 1890-1900 Tiffany & Co. This cigarette case and a related match case (41.140.3) are rare surviving examples of Tiffany & Co.s laminated metalwork, also called "mixed metal" in company records and known to the Japanese as mokume. In mokume (meaning "wood grain" or, literally, "wood eye"), thin sheets of differently colored metals and alloys are laminated, folded to increase the number of layers, cut through or bent, and, finally, hammered to produce marbleized patterns.. Cigarette Case. American. 1890-1900. Gold, silver, brass, patinated copper, gold-copper alloy, silver-copper alloy, and patinated copper-platinum-iron alloy. Made in New York, New York, United States

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