Box, Tobacco
- Object Name:
- Box, Tobacco
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.589
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Tobacco box, from a pharmacy. Rectangular tin box with hinged cover. Gold lettering on blue. Front and back: "Mayo's / Cut Plug / FOR SMOKING AND CHEWING", and trademark, "MAYO'S / TOBACCO / IS ALWAYS GOOD / REG'D SEPT 1878". Sides and top: "Mayo's / Cut / Plug". Wire handle on cover.
- Material:
- Metal
Tin - Dimensions:
- H-4.8 W-8 D-3.6 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Wilfred B. Osgood Pharmacy Collection, consisting of the 1870s-1950s contents of the Knox Pharmacy (owned by Fred L. Knox) and Roberts Rexall Store (owned by George C. Roberts) in Farmington, NH. Wilfred Osgood purchased both pharmacies in the late 1940s/early 1950s, and kept the original furnishings from both stores. During the 1970s, he created a pharmacy display room from the contents of both stores. This collection is the contents of that display. The collection also includes manuscripts, books, photographs, and printed ephemera, transferred to NHHS library (1992-068).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Donna T. Osgood in memory of Wilfred B. Osgood
- Subjects:
- Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Drugstores, Chewing tobacco, Tobacco
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