DALLAS, TX.- A circa 1875 Gorham carved horn and silver match safe, featuring a highly stylized and intricate Japanese warrior figure on the base, with a stylized carp on the top – considered one of the great “match safe masterpieces” in existence by leading match safe scholar Neil Shapiro – is expected to bring $20,000+ in Heritage Auctions‘ Sept. 26 Signature® Silver & Vertu Auction. The piece is one of 200 match safes featured in the auction, all of which come from a prominent private East Coast collection. Heritage will be offering more than 1,500 rare American match safes from the collection in auctions over the course of the next 2 years. “When it comes to match safes, there is no name more important than the Gorham Corporation of Rhode Island,” said Tim Rigdon, Director of Silver & Vertu at Heritage Auctions, “and there are few match safes that are as important as the carved horn and silver masterwork that tops th