Vintage Culture Crush Cut Smoking Tobacco Cardboard Box
Record status
Individual type · partial
This item is a vintage cardboard tobacco box for Culture Crush Cut Smoking Tobacco, manufactured by the Scotten Dillon Company in Detroit, Michigan. The box is designed with a striking graphic aesthetic, featuring a bold yellow circular focal point against a black background accented with vertical lines.
The branding includes the name 'Culture' in large, stylized green lettering, followed by the text 'Crush Cut Smoking Tobacco' and the descriptor 'Super Quality' in an elegant cursive script. At the base of the design, the company name and location are prominently displayed. The packaging is constructed as a flat-folding carton with a tabbed lid, typical of early to mid-20th-century commercial tobacco retail containers.
Measuring approximately 6 inches by 3.25 inches when closed, the item retains its original vibrant lithographic printing. The back and internal surface show the unprinted, natural tan color of the cardboard material, highlighting its utilitarian production as a disposable item intended for store display and consumer purchase.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- cardboard
- Dimensions
- 6" x 3.25" (closed)
Technical characteristics
- lithographic
- Product
- smoking tobacco
Design
- Obverse
- Culture Crush Cut Smoking Tobacco graphic with yellow circle and green text
- Markings
- Scotten Dillon Company, Detroit, Mich.; 452
Identification
- Source note
- Described from a single auction-house listing published on Invaluable (reproduced with Invaluable's permission). Details apply to that one example; other examples of the type may differ, and the listing is supplementary evidence, not authentication.
- Maker named in listing
- Scotten Dillon Company
Catalogue references
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