- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0035 a-c
- Description
- Three “Old Chum” tobacco bags, each printed on one side with “Old Chum best sun cured Virginia Tobacco - specially adapted for pipe use/made in Montreal, Canada, America” and with “Old Chum Virginia flake out Smoking Tobacco (cap trademark), manufactured by D. Ritchie & Co., Imperial Tobacco Compan…
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- Title
- Tobacco Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 0.3 (a,b); 0.3 (c) x 10.6 (a,b); 10.5 (c) x 14.0 (a,b); 13.5 (c) cm
- Description
- Three “Old Chum” tobacco bags, each printed on one side with “Old Chum best sun cured Virginia Tobacco - specially adapted for pipe use/made in Montreal, Canada, America” and with “Old Chum Virginia flake out Smoking Tobacco (cap trademark), manufactured by D. Ritchie & Co., Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada Limited, Montreal” on the other side. a) Bag with yellow at the bottom and a wide orange band stitched on. The bag has a rounded bottom and one red and one blue drawstring through a casing at the top. b) Same markings and design as (a), but not faded, and with remnants of paper excise stamps along each side.c) Similar to (a), but with a square bottom and the orange band printed on the yellow fabric. The bag is made of lightweight cotton and has remnants of paper excise stamps along the sides.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0035 a-c
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre, cotton; paper; leaf, tobacco
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0031
- Description
- A cotton Bull Durham tobacco bag with a drawstring at the neck and a circular paper label attached reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull. A paper stamp label stuck on the front of the bag reads “TOBACCO” and there is a red paper strip stuck on next to it. …
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- Title
- Tobacco Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre, cotton; paper; leaf, tobacco
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm
- Description
- A cotton Bull Durham tobacco bag with a drawstring at the neck and a circular paper label attached reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull. A paper stamp label stuck on the front of the bag reads “TOBACCO” and there is a red paper strip stuck on next to it. The bag is full of tobacco.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0031
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre, cotton; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0032 a-c
- Description
- Three empty cotton “Bull Durham” tobacco bags, each with a drawstring at the neck and a circular paper tag attached to the drawstring reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull. One bag, (b), has part of a torn paper strip at the top reading “ONE FIF...”
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- Title
- Tobacco Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre, cotton; paper
- Dimensions
- 9.0 x 0.3 x 6.2 cm
- Description
- Three empty cotton “Bull Durham” tobacco bags, each with a drawstring at the neck and a circular paper tag attached to the drawstring reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull. One bag, (b), has part of a torn paper strip at the top reading “ONE FIF...”
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0032 a-c
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0033
- Description
- A cloth Bull Durham tobacco bag with a yellow drawstring at the neck and a tag hanging from the string reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull.
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- Title
- Tobacco Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre; paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 0.3 x 9.0 cm
- Description
- A cloth Bull Durham tobacco bag with a yellow drawstring at the neck and a tag hanging from the string reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0033
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