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- Date
- 1940 – 1970
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1073 a,b
- Description
- Two ashtrays: a) square black with red lettering: “Carling’s. Lager. Red Cap Ale. Stout”; b) circular, brass with ornate design.
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- Title
- Ashtray
- Date
- 1940 – 1970
- Material
- metal
- Description
- Two ashtrays: a) square black with red lettering: “Carling’s. Lager. Red Cap Ale. Stout”; b) circular, brass with ornate design.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Purchased from Phyllis Cain, Banff, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1073 a,b
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- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Material
- metal; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0024
- Description
- A rectangular yellow “Millbank Straight Cut” cigarette tin with lid. The tin has black lettering and a border design, with a red stripe in the centre with “100 CIGARETTES 100.” A torn paper excise stamp is attached to the front right corner. The base bears a warning concerning the use of tin, an…
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- Title
- Cigarette Tin
- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Material
- metal; paper
- Dimensions
- 4.3 x 7.8 x 16.8 cm
- Description
- A rectangular yellow “Millbank Straight Cut” cigarette tin with lid. The tin has black lettering and a border design, with a red stripe in the centre with “100 CIGARETTES 100.” A torn paper excise stamp is attached to the front right corner. The base bears a warning concerning the use of tin, and there is illegible, faded handwriting on the lid.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0024
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- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0026
- Description
- Red “Rothman's Pall Mall” cigarette tin with a hinged lid. The tin lid has gold borders along the edges, black and white lettering, and a picture of two men in frock coats standing before a tall column. There is advertising copy inside the tin.
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- Title
- Cigarette Tin
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 1.7 x 11.0 x 14.5 cm
- Description
- Red “Rothman's Pall Mall” cigarette tin with a hinged lid. The tin lid has gold borders along the edges, black and white lettering, and a picture of two men in frock coats standing before a tall column. There is advertising copy inside the tin.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0026
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- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- metal; paper; leaf, tobacco
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0027
- Description
- A “Capt Wright's” cigarette tin with a hinged lid that is white with a gold border along the edges. The lid has black lettering, and a blue U.S. excise stamp. The inside surface of the lid bears an advertising image and a distributor's label “A thinker's choice, S.S. Pierce Co. Boston” and the ba…
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- Title
- Cigarette Tin
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- metal; paper; leaf, tobacco
- Dimensions
- 3.6 x 11.0 x 14.2 cm
- Description
- A “Capt Wright's” cigarette tin with a hinged lid that is white with a gold border along the edges. The lid has black lettering, and a blue U.S. excise stamp. The inside surface of the lid bears an advertising image and a distributor's label “A thinker's choice, S.S. Pierce Co. Boston” and the base has a warning regarding the use of tin. The tin is filled with original cigarettes wrapped with silver foil lining.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0027
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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
- 1945 – 1955
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0089
- Description
- A smooth, straight sided pipe bowl with the shank at a right angle to the bowl. The shank joins a separate black stem. The bowl is marked “Made in England” and with “inner tube 170” and “Patent 17365/20”.
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- Title
- Pipe
- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 3.8 x 2.8 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- A smooth, straight sided pipe bowl with the shank at a right angle to the bowl. The shank joins a separate black stem. The bowl is marked “Made in England” and with “inner tube 170” and “Patent 17365/20”.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0089
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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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