Box, tobacco
Record status
Individual type · partial
Box, tobacco is held by Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading. Museum description: This is a coin-operated tobacco box - inserting a coin into the slot releases a small packet of tobacco when the left hand side opens.
It is made of brass, and stamped 'RICH'S PATENT'. According to members of the Antique Metalware Society, who examined the object in 2002, it may have been made by Barlow of Birmingham. The museum record gives place associated: Birmingham. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- Birmingham
Identification
- Europeana id
- /2064107/Museu_ProvidedCHO_Museum_of_English_Rural_Life__University_of_Reading_12639
- Museum object name
- Box, tobacco
- Holding institution
- Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm materials, dimensions, maker and wider type against the holding institution and a specialist reference.