3.25x3.25x3.75" to top of kepi on lid. Unpainted bisque. Repeated slogan on lid edge reads "A Match/For Anyone." Lid top has Civil War kepi design with text "Contraband of War Set Them At Work." 7/8x3/16" chip off one of the four nose tips. Ornate makers mark under the base. This item is circa Butler's run for president on the Green Back party ticket in 1884, but the text is inspired by his Civil War military career. Benjamin Butler ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Massachusetts in 1860. After the fall of Fort Sumter, he became a Brigadier General in the Massachusetts militia and subsequently took military control of Baltimore in May 1861. His preemptory exercise of authority led to his removal by General Winfield Scott to Fort Monroe. There, his seizure of three runaway slaves as "contraband" lead to a crisis about the government's treatment of escaped slaves and to his growing reputation as a radical. Rarely found with lid. See Ben Butler in 1848 cartoon item #2.