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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Container - Cigarette boxes, 1900s
... Cigarette boxes...Seven cigarette boxes dug up during renovations at 78... Street) Port Melbourne melbourne Cigarette boxes Container Seven ...In a box dug up during renovations at 78 Station StreetSeven cigarette boxes dug up during renovations at 78 Station Street. From a box of objects dug up at 78 Station Street: cigarette box, matchbox, greeting card "Remembrance" and advertising card for "throat weakness", dating early to mid 1900sdomestic life -
Mont De Lancey
Box
... cigarette boxes... on the lid. A decorative clip to close. boxes cigarette boxes cutlery ...Brown lidded box with blue velvet lining - spaces for 6 small teaspoons or cake forks or 12 cigarettes. Covered in brown patterned paper with four lines decoration on the lid. A decorative clip to close. boxes, cigarette boxes, cutlery boxes -
Clunes Museum
METAL CIGARETTE BOX, Cigarettes: Carreras Limited
... METAL CIGARETTE BOX...Red painted metal cigarette box... CIGARETTE BOX Red painted metal cigarette box CRAVEN A VIRGINIA ...Red painted metal cigarette boxCRAVEN A VIRGINIA CIGARETTES, 100 CRAVEN A CORK TIPPED Inside lid: Will not affect your throat. CRAVEN "A" CORK TIPPED VIRGINIA/ /are made from fine imported matured Virginia Tobacco guaranteed pure and absolutely free from adulteration of any kind. Made by Carreras Limited Arcadia Works "Keys" has been scratched in one end of the boxcigarettetin box -
Clunes Museum
BOX
... Blue De Reszke cigarette box ... De Reszke cigarette box Handwritten on side of box "Dies 3/16 ...Blue De Reszke cigarette box Handwritten on side of box "Dies 3/16" 3/8" Sides of tin printed "20 De Reszke/20 De Reszke Cork/Godfrey Phillips (Aust.) Pty.Ltd., Melbourne, Australia Inside Lid printed "Just as good and pure a cigarette as was especially made for and always smoked by that great singer Jean De Reszke/ De Reszke Virginia" Outside Lid printed "by Appointment/ De Reszke/Virginia/The Aritsocrat of Cigarettes/Milhoff & Co. Ltd." cigarette, de reszke, godfrey phillips (aust.) pty.ltd. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Container - Cigarette Box
... Cigarette Box...Cardboard cigarette box with silver paper lining inside.... Mitcham melbourne Cigarette Box Container Cardboard cigarette box ...Cardboard cigarette box with silver paper lining inside.Ardath Specials Virginia Cork Tipped 20 cork tipped cigarettes.personal effects, smoking accessories -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Container (Item) - Australian National Airlines Silver Cigarette Box
... Australian National Airlines Silver Cigarette Box....Australian National Airlines Silver Cigarette Box....Australian National Airlines Silver Cigarette Box, contains...Australian National Airlines Silver Cigarette Box, contains ... -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Domestic object - CIgarette Box, 1940's
... CIgarette Box...Varnished cigarette box with a lid and a brass hinge. Slot... Tatura the-murray CIgarette Box Domestic object Varnished ...Crafted by Camp 1 interneeVarnished cigarette box with a lid and a brass hinge. Slot for cigarettes in the box and a pull out draw like cavity at the bottom to release the cigarettes. There is a black knob in the draw.camp 1 -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Cigarette Case
... Handmade wooden inlay cigarette box with separate sliding... Tatura the-murray Cigarette Case Handmade wooden inlay cigarette ...Made by German P.O.W in Camp 13Handmade wooden inlay cigarette box with separate sliding panel at top. Star-like inlay design on frontcigarette case, camp 13, murchison -
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital
Memorabilia - Cigarette Packet, c. 1914
... Rectangular red cigarette box with gold and black text... melbourne Cigarette Packet Memorabilia Rectangular red cigarette box ...Rectangular red cigarette box with gold and black text and gold State Express Cigarettes logo. Top and bottom folding-flap opening.333 Cork tipped. Absolutely unique in their quality.ardath, tobacco, imperial tobacco, british american tobacco -
Clunes Museum
Functional object - BOX
... Red Benson & Hedges metal cigarette box and contents; .1 29... Functional object Red Benson & Hedges metal cigarette box ...Red Benson & Hedges metal cigarette box and contents; .1 29 x shoe nails .2 7 x heel & sole metal protector platesTop: 'Benson & Hedges Super Virginia Cigarette'. 'By appointment tobacconists to his majesty the King'. with Coat of Arms Sides: Twenty Cigarettes, Old Bond Street London w. Inside Lid: 'When only the best will do', 'Benson & Hedges Ltd', 'Super Virginia Cigarette'local history, tins/containers -
Bendigo Military Museum
Memorabilia - MEMORABILIA, FRAMED
... , colour patches, photograph & silver cigarette box. Articles all... & silver cigarette box. Articles all on maroon background ...Displayed as War Medal 1939-45, should be Australian Service Medal. Displayed as Australian Service Medal, should be War Medal 1939-45. Items relate to Kenneth Edwin Beckmann V64354, enlisted in the CMF on 19.2.1942 in the 7th Australian Infantry Battalion, discharged on 25.10.1945.Patterned wooden frame surrounding a collection of medals, colour patches, photograph & silver cigarette box. Articles all on maroon background with salmon coloured border. Glass fronted. On rear: V64354 K F BECKMANnumismatics-military-medals, photography-photographs, personal effects - smoking accessories, glass technology -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Card - Advertising for 'throat weakness' remedy, 1900s
... : cigarette box, matchbox, greeting card "Remembrance...: cigarette box, matchbox, greeting card "Remembrance" and advertising ...In a box dug up during renovations at 78 Station StreetFrom a box of objects dug up at 78 Station Street: cigarette box, matchbox, greeting card "Remembrance" and advertising card for "throat weakness", dating early to mid 1900sdomestic life -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Container - cigarette box
... cigarette box...Unopened cigarette box. Red box of 'TURF' Virginia...cigarette box Container Unopened cigarette box. Red box ...Box Hill Historical SocietySmokingUnopened cigarette box. Red box of 'TURF' Virginia cigarettes. A dark blue circle in centre of box with a drawing of a white winged horse. Box has cellophane intact around box..Turf Virginia Cigarettes, Cork tipped, push this end. Carreras Ltd. Arcadia works 5/3personal effects, smoking accessories -
The Ed Muirhead Physics Museum
Microscope rulings, 7 with box
... in specially converted metal hinged cigarette box (55.8) with wooden... 15mm . stored in specially converted metal hinged cigarette box ...7 flat discs (battery like) with diffraction gratings (55.1-55.7). surface rectangular rulings extend mostly 15mm . stored in specially converted metal hinged cigarette box (55.8) with wooden compartments -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Container - Cigarette Box
... Cigarette Box...Empty cigarette box red coloured with dark blue and cream... Mitcham melbourne Cigarette Box Container Empty cigarette box red ...From Box Hill Historical SocietySmokingEmpty cigarette box red coloured with dark blue and cream strip across left hand top corner. Drawing of a man wearing a large hat in cream egg shaped frame on right hand side. same illustrated on back.Marquis Exclusive Blend. Marquis Cork Tipped.personal effects, smoking accessories -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Cigarette box
... Cigarette box...Cigarette box presented to teacher Herb Godbehear, Master... goldfields Cigarette box Carved wooden box with hinged lid. Initials ...Cigarette box presented to teacher Herb Godbehear, Master Emeritus - Staff Member 1929-70. Science and mathematics teacher, Deputy Principal 1958 - 1970 and sometimes Acting Headmaster. Herb married Old Collegian Mollie Miller who entered CPLC 1920. Carved wooden box with hinged lid. Initials M.V.L scored on base. School emblem and colours across lid.Initials M.V.L scored on base. School emblem and colours across lid.mollie-miller-godbehear, herbert-godbehear, staff -
Bendigo Military Museum
Container - CIGARETTE CASE
... Silver heavy metal cigarette box, rectangular shape... corner. Silver heavy metal cigarette box, rectangular shape ...Souvenirs collected by a member of BCOF in Japan Post WW2. Item in collection of "RICHARD WILLIAM McGILVERY". RAAF. Refer Cat No. 7287P for his service details, photos and awards.Silver heavy metal cigarette box, rectangular shape with curved bowl shape inside. Lid on top has engraved series of Japanese images (Buildings and Deer in gold, gate in red and tree branch in silver). Word - possibly MIYAYIMO engraved into bottom left corner. Inside burnished gold colour.Word - possibly "MIYAYIMO" engraved into bottom left corner.bcof, souvenir -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Container - Empty Cigarette Box
... Empty Cigarette Box...Empty Peter pan cigarette box. Green background...Empty Cigarette Box Container Empty Peter pan cigarette box ...From Box Hill Historical SocietyEmpty Peter pan cigarette box. Green background with drawing of Peter Pan on left hand side. Peter Pan cigarettes Airy Fairy Charming Sweet. The manufacturers of Peter Pan cigarettes exercise the greatest care in selecting only the choicest of light Virginia tobaccos thus assuring a uniformly high quality.as abovepersonal effects, smoking accessories -
RSL Victoria - Anzac House Reference Library and Memorabilia Collection
Cigarette Cards
... Forty four boxed "Magpie" cigarette cards of WW1 scenes.... melbourne Cigarette Cards Forty four boxed "Magpie" cigarette cards ...Forty four boxed "Magpie" cigarette cards of WW1 scenes. -
Seaworks Maritime Museum
Seaman's Sailmakers box and tools
... Fids, scissors, threader, Virginia Cigarettes metal box used..., threader, Virginia Cigarettes metal box used to represent beeswax ...Craven-A box with Perspex at front secured by screws. Box contains 14 items including calliper, metal knife, three wooden cogs, stone item, hand palm protector, needle, line (rope), two Fids, scissors, threader, Virginia Cigarettes metal box used to represent beeswax. There is a piece of typed paper identifying different items. Piece of paper ‘These are some of the hand tools and equiopment used by sailors and sailmakers throughout the ages of sail and steam./?Hand palm (used) for pushing needles through canvas sails ans heavy lines (rope)/ Fids for opening up lines for splicing/ Needles for passing through canvas and lines/ beeswaz for preservation of twine used in sailmaking and splicing/ Gauges measuring rope thickness/ Curved scissors for cutting canvas and twine/ Threader for threading twine through rope and canvas. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Memorabilia - Box - Cigarette silks, 1911 - 1917
... Box - Cigarette silks...Box of Cigarette Silks ( 10 ) depicting animal motifs...Box - Cigarette silks Memorabilia Box of Cigarette Silks ...These type of cigarette silks were included in WD & HO Wills cigarette packets to induce women in particular to take up smoking.|The Word 'Cartophilic?|It is believed that this unusual word was coined in the 1920s by Col. Bagnall, an Englishman, who was the father of the hobby of cigarette card and trade card collecting. It is thought to be a combination of a Latin word, 'carto' meaning 'card and the Greek word 'philic', meaning 'love'.- lover of cards. The term originally related to the collection of the two types mentioned, however, our Society has included postcards in the range of items collected by our members.|The Cigarette Card|The cigarette card began its evolution in the United States of America, in the early 1880s as a plain piece of cardboard used by tobacconists to protect the cigarettes which were sold in that era, not in packets, but loosely. A purchaser would buy his cigarettes then wrap them in paper around the small piece of cardboard, which acted as a stiffener. In fact, for many decades, cigarette cards were known as 'stiffeners' in the USA.|The card depicting 'The Marquis of Lome' is reputed to be the first known cigarette card issued. This is thought to have been in 1879. It did not take long for an enterprising entrepreneur to recognise the advertising potential of the cigarette card, and, very soon, the cards began displaying popular images, often in sets. This had the effect of youngsters, wishing to complete their sets, harassing their fathers to buy a specific brand of cigarettes. The kids who collected cards in the days when they were being issued in the cigarette packets, would hang around outside the local tobacconist's shop, pestering the men who had just bought a packet of cigarette, with the cry: 'can I have the cig can mister?'|It is a proven fact that, here in Australia during the 1930s, at least one set had one card deliberately withheld and issued very sparingly. This card is No. 86 (Mrs Jack Crawford) in the Carreras 'Turf Personality Series'. Thus, in a set of reasonably easy cards to get, this one card is a constant source of frustration for the collector, and as such, commands a premium when it comes to price. It is not hard to imagine the young collector nagging his to Dad to keep buying 'Turf' cigarettes to enable him to finish the set.|From small beginnings the cigarette card soon gave rise to a booming industry in itself. Artists and writers were|employed to produce the cards, which were miniature works of art and served as little encyclopaedia's for the children of the day. By the 1930s cards were being issued in the countless millions. It has been stated, in one book on the history of cards; that 450 million sets of a series produced and issued by the prolific issuer of cards in the United Kingdom, WD & HO Wills. As each set contained 50 cards you would need a calculator with a very long result window to see the answer to how many cards of that series were in circulation.|Australia's involvement would appear to have its beginnings with the English and American firms who shipped their tobacco products here and the cards of American Tobacco Company (ATC) are found in great numbers in early Australian collections; many featuring Australian subjects, e.g. 'Australian Parliament a 1901 issue. Earlier U.S. sets depicting Australians included Goodwin & Co's, so called. 'Australian Series' with cricketers and Australian Rules footballers who were on the sporting scene during the 1880s. The caption of one of theses cards reads:|'W.Hannysee. Captain Port Melbourne Football Club' which enables us to pinpoint the year of issue to either 1889 or 1890.|On the Australian scene the first local manufacturer who issued cards seems to have been The National Cigarette Company of Australia Proprietary Limited, whose 'Tally Ho' packets contained cards from a series of thirteen featuring the touring 'English Cricket Team 1897-8' Of the few Australian manufacturers who issued cards, only two companies issued more the two sets.|Undoubtedly the cards issued by the Melbourne firm Sniders & Abrahams (later Sniders & Abrahams Pty Ltd) are the 'jewels in the crown' of Australian card issues. They issued some thirty-three series, with numerous sub-series and allied issues such as metal badges, metal football shields, celluloid flags etc., which ensured that the hobbyist had a vast range from which to collect. Sporting themes – football, cricket, horse racing – dominate, indicating the Australians' love of sport and the outdoors was as strong in those earlier times as it is today. Military, animals and birds themes were also to the fore, with a touch of culture being provided by 'Shakespeare', 'Dickens', actresses and even classical 'Statuary'. Humour was not forgotten with 'Cartoons and Caricatures', 'Naval and Cricket (double meaning) Terms' and the 'Jokes' series. Art and history were covered by the artist, S.T. Gill's 'Views of Victoria in 1857' while the stereoscopic 'Views of the World' expanded the collectors' knowledge of the world as a whole.|The Sniders & Abrahams series began in 1904 and by 1919 the company was in decline and was eventually taken over by G.G. Goode & Co. Ltd. This company produced one set only, the highly collectable 'Prominent Cricketer Series' issued in 1924. During the early to mid-1920s, J.J. Schuh Tobacco Pty Ltd issued eight series, again containing the popular subjects of sport and war. At least two provincial tobacconists, Lentens of Bendigo and Baillies of Warrnambool, issued private football series. The last series of cards issued by a truly Australian firm was Dudgeon & Arnell's '1934 Australian Cricket Team'.|The Australian market was not neglected by the English companies with WD & HO Wills, Godfrey Phillips and Ogdens all making their contributions. By far the most active issuer was the long-established company Wills, whose 'Cricketers' of 1901 heralded the flood of Australian series, which continued into the mid-thirties.|The onset of the 1939-45 World War sounded the death knell of the cigarette card and very few post-war issues were made, certainly not here in Australia.|The Trade Card|The Trade Card is a non-tobacco item used by manufacturers to promote and advertise their products, in the same way that cigarette cards were. It is uncertain exactly when they were first produced, but in the USA, non-collectable cards were issued by firms in the early 1800s. These were more akin to a latter day 'business card'. It was not until the 1850s, when coloured and pictorial cards were issued to advertise and promote products that the Trade Card|became a collectable item. Many beautiful lithographic cards were produced in this early era and they are very mu sought after by collectors. By the 1870s the issues of Trade Cards became more prolific and it is from this era that more cards are seen.|Again, it is difficult to pinpoint the exact date of the first Australian Trade Card and it may be that the highly collectable and extremely rare 'American Candy Co's' - 'Pure Caramels' Australian Rules football card, issued i 1891, is the earliest series. This confectionery firm was located in Fitzroy, a Melbourne suburb. To date only two subjects have been seen.|Another early set was 'Flags', issued by F.H.Fauldings & Co. It featured testimonials of seven English cricketers who toured Australia with the 1894/5 Test team. Fauldings was an Adelaide based firm which manufactured medicinal toiletries, soaps and oils, using the distinctly Australian eucalyptus oil. During the 20th century a multitude of Australian businesses issued trade cards, with confectionery manufacturers such as Hoadleys, Allens, Sweetacres and Australian Licorice producing the majority of them. Again sporting themes dominated with the ever popular Aussie Rules football cards being the most numerous. Cricket issues ran a close second.|Apart from sporting cards, almost every subject imaginable was covered by the Trade Card, making it the most diverse and interesting branch of cartophilly. In contrast to the Cigarette Card, which had its demise prior to the Second World War, the Trade Card is still alive and well.|We all are aware of the long running 'Birds of Australasia' series put out by Tuck-fields Tea and 1 doubt if there is a kitchen drawer in Australia that has not got one or two of these informative and attractive cards floating about in it. These cards were first produced in the early 1960s and are still being inserted in that company's packets of tea. Such is also the case with Sanitarium Health Foods, manufacturers of the well known Weetbix, who began issuing cards, with a wide range of subjects, in the early 1940s and continue to do so.|The 1940s and 1950s saw the two breakfast food giants, Kornies and Weeties dominating the card scene. Kornies footballers were in production fora decade from 1948 to 1959. Four years later in 1963, we saw the start of four decades of Scanlens bubble-gum card issues, both football and cricket. In the mid 1990s, with the end of the Scanlens/Stimorol cards, the Trading Card came on the scene. These cards do not fit under the umbrella of the Trade Card, having been produced and marketed purely as a 'collectable' with no connection whatsoever to any product, which of course is necessary for an item to be classified as a Trade Card.|The earliest British postcard was issued in 1870 and was designed to send short messages; the stamp was printed on the card, therefore it did not require an envelope. It was considered by many to be lowering the postal standards because the texts were no longer private. However the cards were a great success as on the first day of issue in 1870, half a million passed through the London postal centre.|The first illustrated postcards are said to be those introduced by a French stationer in 1870. He realized that French troops fighting in the Franco-Prussian War needed to be able to send short messages to their families and designed a 'postcard' to suit the purpose. As many of the soldiers were illiterate they decorated their cards with sketches of their many activities at the front rather than writing; thus creating a picture postcard. Private enterprise soon saw the great financial possibilities of this new easy and attractive way of communication by post; also sending a postcard cost less than postage for letters. It was correctly assumed that postcards were likely to overtake letter writing in many instances.|Between 1875 and 1882 every state in Australia introduced official postcards, N.S.W. first and Tasmania last. Each state produced a simple type of postcard with a pre printed stamp allied to that state. The stamp side stated 'The Address Only To Be Written On This Side'; the reverse side sometimes carried a simple illustration or decoration with space fora short message, each state extolling their own state's virtues. In 1901, with the advent of Federation, the new Government became responsible for all postal services in Australia and produced postcards for sale in every state. With several mail deliveries each day in most towns, postcards were used for many purposes. One 1906 postcard, with an illustration of fruit, was sent from Mrs X in the morning to her greengrocer ordering her fruit and vegetables to be delivered that afternoon. Another lady asks her charlady to 'come this afternoon'.|Australian private enterprise also began selling pictorial postcards, most companies using the very experienced German printing works who were the worlds best in the field of lithography and fine detailed colour-printing. Many of these beautiful German cards still exist today, 100 years later. Australia did have a few fine printers but they were in the minority. Black and white postcards printed in Australia in the early 1900s were often of good quality e.g. postcards printed by 'The Bulletin', illustrating the works of 'The Bulletins' top artists.|Between c1903-09 The Melbourne company Osboldstone and Atkins etc. printed coloured reproductions of 46 J.A. Turner bush/rural life paintings, which were generally of good quality and became hugely popular and still sought after today. Like thousands of homes in Europe, Britain and U.S.A., many Australia homes had albums of cherished postcards, which were given pride of place for visitors to see and enjoy.|Postcard collecting remained popular but was changing with the times. About 1912 the Australian photographer George Rose of Melbourne began to produce topographical B/W real photographic postcards covering most of Australia and other photographers began to do likewise. These cards soon found their way into collections as well.|WWI and the horrors of war suddenly changed the world; postcards were still in great demand but the subject matter was far more serious. Thousands of postcards from the trenches in European war zones arrived in Australia to be included in family albums. Propaganda and recruitment messages were produced to encourage enlistment. Australian postcard producers began to create cards decorated with gum leaves, boomerangs, wattle etc., which were designed for sending to Australian troops serving overseas. Very few 'pretty' cards were available, as access to the Gentian printing works was no longer possible and exporting of postcards from Britain was very limited. By the end of WWI people had other more serious problems to contend with and the avid postcard collecting hobby declined, fold greetings took over and topographical photographic postcards became a small but steady income for the producers and newsagents etc. in every town.|Fortunately many of these old postcards still exist and are avidly collected by a new generation or postcard collectors. The Australian Cartophilic Society Inc. is one of four postcard/cigarette card organizations in Australia. They are, N.S.W. Post Card Collectors Society; Queensland Card Collectors' Society Inc. and West Australian Card Collectors|Society, and across the Tasman there is a New Zealand Postcard Society.|References:|Picture Postcards of the Golden Age A Collector's Guide by Toni & Valmai Holt. Picture Postcards in Australia 1898 - 1920 by David CookBox of Cigarette Silks ( 10 ) depicting animal motifs, which were placed in cigarette packets as an incentive for women in particular to smoke.|WD & HO Wills|Produced 1911 - 1917personal effects, smoking accessories, recreations, collections -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Box - wooden, Wooden hand crafted cigarette case and box
... Wooden hand crafted cigarette case and box... case with opening. Wooden box for cigarettes with material... Tatura the-murray Box - wooden Wooden hand crafted cigarette case ...Small hand crafted wooden box with lid and smaller wooden case with opening. Wooden box for cigarettes with material lining and hand crafted wooden cigarette case. 1 of 2 (L0564)tatura, colliver, containers, domestic -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Box - wooden, Wooden hand crafted cigarette case and box
... Wooden hand crafted cigarette case and box... case with opening. Wooden box for cigarettes with material... Tatura the-murray Box - wooden Wooden hand crafted cigarette case ...Small hand crafted wooden box with lid and smaller wooden case with opening. Wooden box for cigarettes with material lining and hand crafted wooden cigarette case. 1 of 2 (L0565)tatura, colliver, containers, domestic -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Box, Princess Mary's Christmas Fund, 1914 (contents of Display Case)
... yellow cardboard boxes which originally held cigarettes...’ Cigarettes and Tobacco Boxes: ‘Her Royal Highness The Princess...’ Cigarettes and Tobacco Boxes: ‘Her Royal Highness The Princess Mary’s ...The contents of this display case are known as Princess Mary’s Christmas Fund 1914. In October 1914 Princess Mary, the 17 year-old daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, launched an appeal to raise funds to produce a Christmas present for every person serving in the British and Allied Forces in World War One. The Christmas box was a silver one for officers and a brass one for other ranks. The box usually contained a packet of cigarettes and tobacco, a Christmas card and a photograph of Princess Mary but some boxes contained confectionery, notebooks, pencils etc. By Christmas 1914 200,000 boxes had been distributed but it took until 1920 to dispose of the 2,500,000 boxes that were produced. Many of the boxes given to Australian servicemen have survived but few contain any or all of the contents. It is not known to whom this box was sent. This box and its contents are of great interest as an important memento of Australian participation in World War One. This is a rectangular brass tin and its contents – two yellow cardboard boxes which originally held cigarettes and tobacco, a Christmas card and a photograph of Princess Mary. The five items are displayed within a rectangular wooden box with a removable glass top. The brass tin is embossed with an image in the centre of Princess Mary surrounded by a laurel wreath. The embossing includes the letter ‘M’ (twice) and the names of some of the allies of Britain in World War One. Christmas Card: ‘With Best Wishes for a Happy Christmas and a Victorious New Year from The Princess Mary and Friends at Home’ Cigarettes and Tobacco Boxes: ‘Her Royal Highness The Princess Mary’s Christmas Fund 1914’. warrnambool and world war one, princess mary’s christmas fund 1914 -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Manufactured objects, Cigarette lighter metal, 20thC
A cigarette lighter is a portable device used to generate a flame. It consists of a metal or plastic container filled with a flammable fluid or pressurized liquid gas, a means of ignition, and some provision for extinguishing the flame. A spark is created by striking metal against a flint, or by pressing a button that compresses a piezoelectric crystal (piezo ignition), generating an electric arc. In naphtha lighters, the liquid is sufficiently volatile, and flammable vapour is present as soon as the top of the lighter is opened. Butane lighters combine the striking action with the opening of the valve to release gas. The spark ignites the flammable gas causing a flame to come out of the lighter which continues until the top is closed (naphtha type), The Beney Company was founded by Robert Ernest Beney of London, England. R. E. Beney invented and marketed the first Beney mechanical lighter in 1919. Beney also designed and manufactured numerous luxury lighters and striker boxes for Alfred Dunhill of London as well as Hermes of Paris. In 1938, Beckenham based Beney Lighters was acquired, adding utility lighters and precision tools to the company's (Winn & Coates) ever growing list of products. The biggest selling line manufactured by Beney was the Economic Gas Lighter which hung on the side of housewife's gas cookers and was also used for lighting Bunsen burners in laboratories. In 1939-1940 the company moved its administration to the Beney Lighter premises in Beckenham after the Head Office at Trinity Square along with many company records were destroyed in a 'doodlebug' flying bomb attack. Beney Ltd. continued producing lighters at least through the late 1954. A green metal cigarette lighter that used fuel and a striking action arm to produce a flame .base: BENEY / COMPANION / PATENT 568897 / BRITISH MADEtobacco, cigarettes, cigarette lighters, fuels, moorabbin, cheltenham, bentleigh, early settlers, beney pty ltd, beckenham england -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Manufactured objects, Cigarette lighter, brass cylinder, 20thC
A cigarette lighter is a portable device used to generate a flame. It consists of a metal or plastic container filled with a flammable fluid or pressurized liquid gas, a means of ignition, and some provision for extinguishing the flame. A spark is created by striking metal against a flint, or by pressing a button that compresses a piezoelectric crystal (piezo ignition), generating an electric arc. In naphtha lighters, the liquid is sufficiently volatile, and flammable vapour is present as soon as the top of the lighter is opened. Butane lighters combine the striking action with the opening of the valve to release gas. The spark ignites the flammable gas causing a flame to come out of the lighter which continues until the top is closed - naphtha typeA brass cylindrical cigarette lighter with ring to attached to a chain cigarettes, tobacco, cigaretter lighters, safety matches, moorabbin, brighton, cheltenham, pioneers, early settlers -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Containers, Tobacco, ‘State Express x2 tins, 20th C
State Express 555, simply known as 555, is a brand of cigarette originally manufactured in the United Kingdom by the Ardath Tobacco Company. The overseas rights to the brand, excluding the United Kingdom, were acquired by British American Tobacco (B.A.T.) in 1925. It was sold widely throughout the world. Sir Albert Levy (1864 – 1937), born in England became a successful tobacco trader, cigarette manufacturer and exporter. On 31 July 1895 Sir Albert Levy registered the trademark ARDATH in the Republic of Ireland.. He visited the United States and while in New York State, he was a passenger on the Empire State Express train. . The word trademark was first registered in Ireland on 10 March 1896. In the United Kingdom, Ardath's brands endured, to the point where they were granted a Royal Warrant by King George VI in 1946 and again later by H.M Queen Elizabeth II. In 1961, British American Tobacco bought out Imperial Tobacco's share of Ardath, thus gaining full control of Ardath's trademarks2x Tins with hinged lids to contain State Express Ready Rubbed Virginia Tobacco . Outside: STATE EXPRESS / READY RUBBED / Absolutely Unique in its quality / VIRGINIA TOBACCO / ARDATH FINE CUT Inside lid : EVERY TIN OF GENUINE / STATE EXPRESS / READY RUBBED / ARDATH FINE CUT / has the name of ARDATH / printed on the paper liningtobacco, cigarettes, moorabbin, bentleigh, cheltenham, early settlers, ardath tobacco company ltd, levy sir albert, state express cigarettes, lucky strike, cigarettes, british american tobacco company ltd, imperial tobacco company ltd, -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Containers, tin, Tobacco ‘Murrays Erinmore, c1940
Murray, Sons and Company Ltd was a tobacco manufacturing company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The company traded under its own name but under various ownerships, from its foundation in 1810[1] until closure in 2005. Murray, Sons and Company Ltd began trading in Belfast in 1810, and became a limited company in 1884. By 1921, it shared most of the Belfast manufacture of tobacco, cigarettes and snuff with Gallaher Limited, who had moved to Belfast in 1867. Dunlop McCosh Cunningham, born 1901, took over the running of the works in the mid-1920s from his uncle. The firm produced Erinmore and Yachtsman Navy Cut brands. In 1953, Murray, Sons and Company Ltd was acquired from Dunlop McCosh Cunningham by London-based Carreras Tobacco, which merged with Rothman's of Pall Mall to become Carreras Rothmans Limited. Carreras Rothmans became known as Rothmans International in 1972. In June 1999, Rothmans International was acquired by British American Tobacco. In 2004, British American Tobacco announced the closure of Murray, Sons and Company Ltd in 2005. Throughout its trading life, Murray Sons and Company Ltd manufactured various brands of tobacco products including pipe tobacco Craven, Dunhill, Erinmore, Yachtsman Navy Cut cigarettes.A tin with a lift off lid for Tobacco flake ‘Murray’s Erinmore’MURRAY’S / ERINMORE / FLAKE / trade mark cheltenham, moorabbin, bentleigh, early settlers, cigarettes, tobacco, dunhill tobacco, erinmore cigarettes, rothmans international ltd., british american tobacco ltd., murray sons and company ltd., -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Containers, tin, Cigarettes ‘Craven A’, mid 20thC
Craven "A" is a brand of cigarette that exhibits the English-style flavour of a Virginia-tobacco dominant blend, with that plant's attendant nutty sweetness. The cigarette was named after the third Earl of Craven in 1860. Craven A's were a favourite cigarette during World War II. The 'plain' version of the cigarette was unusual in that, there was at one end a cork tip in place of the paper. The Craven A brand is owned by Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc (RBH), which also owns or otherwise controls a wide variety of cigarette brands. It was sold by the Carreras Tobacco Company in the United Kingdom.. A tin with hinged lid for 'Craven A' CigarettesTop Lid : CORK 'cat figure' TIPPED / CRAVEN/ A / VIRGINIA / CIGARETTES / MADE IN LONDON ENGLAND/ TRADE MARK Inside lid - Made specially to prevent sore throats / CRAVEN 'A' / CORK TIPPED CIGARETTES / are made from the finest imported / matured Virginia and other choice / tobaccos guaranteed pure and / absolutely free from any adulteration / of any kind. / CARRERA'S LIMITED / (Est. 1788) / ARCADIA WORKS LONDON ENGLANDcigarettes, tobacco, morrabbin, cheltenham, bentleigh, early settlers, craven a, filter tipped cigarettes, cork tipped cigarettes, wd & h.o.wills pty. ltd., british american tobacco co.pty.ltd., craven a cigarettes, carrera’s tobacco company, rothmans pty ltd., , benson and hedges pty ltd., -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Manufactured objects, Cigarette papers ‘Zig Zag' x 2, 20thC
Rolling papers are small sheets, rolls, or leaves of paper which are sold for rolling cigarettes either by hand or with a rolling machine. When rolling a cigarette, one fills the rolling paper with tobacco. Rolling papers are most commonly made with wood pulp, hemp, flax, or rice straw as a base material. Zig-Zag papers, made in France, were the first interleaved brand (hence the name). Gold medal at 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris. 1860 Samuel Ramsden, a Yorkshire man, founded first paper mill in Victoria on the banks of the Yarra River, Fairfield, Melbourne. This was the Australian Paper and Pulp Company which for most of its history was called The Australian Paper Manufacturers Ltd. until it changed its name in 1986 to Amcor. In 1919 the company opened its mill on the corner of Upper Heidelberg Road and The Chandler Highway in Fairfield and remains there today. 2 packets of precut cigarette papers 'Zig Zag ' Paper Aust. Pty. Ltd. 60 leavesZIG ZAG PAPER AUST. PTY LTD 60 LEAVESciggarettes, cigarette papers, tobacco, moorabbin, cheltenham, early settlers, australian paper manufacturers, fairfield melbourne, zig zag cigarette papers ltd. amcor ltd,