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- Date
- 1910 – 1920
- Material
- skin; quill; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.0006
- Description
- A long deerskin pouch with a rounded top and long fringe along the bottom edge. A thong threaded through slits near the top closes the bag. The bag has quill binding trim. The bottom third of the bag is completely beaded with a white background and a large three stemmed flower and leaves in gree…
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- Title
- Calumet Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1920
- Material
- skin; quill; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 16.0 x 63.0 cm
- Description
- A long deerskin pouch with a rounded top and long fringe along the bottom edge. A thong threaded through slits near the top closes the bag. The bag has quill binding trim. The bottom third of the bag is completely beaded with a white background and a large three stemmed flower and leaves in greens, blue, pink, red and yellow.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.0006
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- metal, silver
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0023
- Description
- Cigar shaped, sterling silver humidor that is filled with absorbent material which when soaked with water acts as the humidifying agent. This would have been carried in a cigar case to maintian the cigars. This piece bears the Birks Sterling mark.
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- Title
- Humidor
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- metal, silver
- Dimensions
- 11.5 cm
- Description
- Cigar shaped, sterling silver humidor that is filled with absorbent material which when soaked with water acts as the humidifying agent. This would have been carried in a cigar case to maintian the cigars. This piece bears the Birks Sterling mark.
- Subject
- smoking
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0023
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- Date
- 1910 – 1925
- Material
- metal, silver
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0127
- Description
- A rectangular cigarette lighter of sterling silver with a vertical striped pattern. The insides of the lighter are missing. The lighter is marked with the monogram “R.B.M.” and the word “Sterling”.
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- Title
- Lighter
- Date
- 1910 – 1925
- Material
- metal, silver
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 2.0 x 3.1 cm
- Description
- A rectangular cigarette lighter of sterling silver with a vertical striped pattern. The insides of the lighter are missing. The lighter is marked with the monogram “R.B.M.” and the word “Sterling”.
- Subject
- smoking
- Roger Moore
- Philip Moore
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0127
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- Date
- 1910 – 1930
- Material
- talc; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1025
- Description
- Home made pipe bowl, Bill Peyto's, talc bowl is 6.4 long, flat bottomed, sides straight, rounded top, flat end, tobacco hole at end is an irregular, off centre circle 1.5 dia., edge around hole is jagged, 2.5 long woodenstem 1.0 dia, small hole in centre, string stuffed between stem and bowl is tig…
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- Title
- Pipe Bowl
- Date
- 1910 – 1930
- Material
- talc; wood
- Dimensions
- 2.8 x 2.6 x 9.0 cm
- Description
- Home made pipe bowl, Bill Peyto's, talc bowl is 6.4 long, flat bottomed, sides straight, rounded top, flat end, tobacco hole at end is an irregular, off centre circle 1.5 dia., edge around hole is jagged, 2.5 long woodenstem 1.0 dia, small hole in centre, string stuffed between stem and bowl is tightening or caulking.
- Subject
- mining
- packers and guides
- Banff National Park
- warden
- Bill Peyto
- smoking
- Natalco
- National Talc Co.
- Credit
- Gift of Douglas Robinson, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1025
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- Date
- 1910 – 1930
- Material
- metal; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1030
- Description
- Gnarled wooden stem. Brass shank and bowl. Wood stem 26.0 long, brown, gnarled briarwood, small hole on end. Brass shank 8.0 long, right angles up to bowl 1.8 dia. bowl, 1.3 deep. At every end of bowl 2 east-Asian characters reposed into brass.
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- Title
- Smoking Pipe
- Date
- 1910 – 1930
- Material
- metal; wood
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 34.5 cm
- Description
- Gnarled wooden stem. Brass shank and bowl. Wood stem 26.0 long, brown, gnarled briarwood, small hole on end. Brass shank 8.0 long, right angles up to bowl 1.8 dia. bowl, 1.3 deep. At every end of bowl 2 east-Asian characters reposed into brass.
- Subject
- smoking
- James Irvine Brewster
- Credit
- Gift of Joe A. Brewster, Banff, 1980
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1030
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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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- 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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