Cigar

Object Name:

Cigar

Object ID:

1992.063.611

Place of Origin:

Red Lion, PA

Date:

circa 1900

Description:

Cigars in original box, from a drugstore. Square, paper-covered wooden box with paper-hinged cover. About two-thirds full of cigars individually sealed in cellophane. Each cigar has a printed label: "SCHUYLER / ODD MOMENTS". Box covered with orange and yellow paper, printed in black. Cover: "SCHUYLER / GWVSH / ODD MOMENTS". Front and sides: "ODD MOMENTS". Bottom: "Fact. No. 237 1st Dist. of Pa. / [legal notice] / FACTORY NO. 237 1ST DIST. PA. 50". Blue tax stamp adhered to cover and front (seal broken). Printed on blue paper inside cover: "PETER SCHUYLER / [color portrait of Pieter Schuyler in circle] / G.W. VAN SLYKE HORTON / ODD MOMENTS / 5 for 20 cents / ODD MOMENTS".

Material:

Wood
Paper

Dimensions:

H-2.4 W-5.3 D-5.1 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

People:

Osgood, Wilfred (1911-1988), Roberts, George C., Knox, Fred L., Schuyler, Pieter (1657-1724)

Subjects:

Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Drugstores, Cigars, Schuyler, Pieter