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matching smoking tobacco-cutter
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Orbost & District Historical Society
tobacco cutter, late 19th -early 20th century
... smoking tobacco-cutter... common means of consuming tobacco. smoking tobacco-cutter ...This McMillan Tobacco Cutter was used to cut plugs of tobacco suitable for pipes.Tobacco cutters were important tools for pipe smokers until self-made or manufactured cigarettes began to dominate the tobacco sales market from the 1920s. This item is a link to a previously common means of consuming tobacco.Metal tobacco cutter (guillotine style), mounted on wooden base, with brass striker plate.Inscription "McMillan" appears on the striker plate.smoking tobacco-cutter -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - LARGE TOBACCO CUTTER
... PERSONAL EFFECTS Smoking accessories tobacco cutter Tobacco Cutter ...Large black enamelled cast iron tobacco cutter. Curved handle with gold painted inserts. A. McMillan. No 5. Nulli Secundus.personal effects, smoking accessories, tobacco cutter, tobacco cutter -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - TOBACCO CUTTER
... PERSONAL EFFECTS Smoking accessories tobacco cutter Tobacco Cutter ...Black enamelled cast brass tobacco cutter mounted on wooden base. K38 painted on the bottom.personal effects, smoking accessories, tobacco cutter, tobacco cutter -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - SMALL TOBACCO CUTTER
... PERSONAL EFFECTS Smoking accessories tobacco cutter Tobacco Cutter ...Small black enamelled cast iron tobacco cutter mounted on wooden base. K37 painted underneath.personal effects, smoking accessories, tobacco cutter, tobacco cutter -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - SMALL TOBACCO CUTTER
... PERSONAL EFFECTS Smoking accessories tobacco cutter Small Tobacco ...Small black enamelled cast iron tobacco cutter mounted on wooden base. K36 painted on the bottom. Letter located in correspondence file ( 21.5.2019 by curator) 'This cutter was used to cut plug tobacco suitable for smoking in a pipe. It belonged to John Temple Rileywo died at the age of 97 at Hobart, Tasmania, October 1970. John Temple Riley led an eventful life. As a youth he trained and rode race horses at the Higginbotham stables quite near the Morphetville racecourse. He won one South Australian St. Ledger and rode the famous Carbine at track training only. In 1967 he was the only living person who had been astride Carbine. He served in Africa with the Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen. He was a sergeant in the Australian Light Horse Regiment in the Egyptian and Eastern Desert and at Gallipoli. He won an Italian decoration as well as Australian citations, he was promoted to Lieutenant J.H. Riley. He met with success in the mining field with his tin strike at Heemskirk on the West Coast.' Written by M.M. Stone, Shelbourne, 3463, via Maldon.personal effects, smoking accessories, tobacco cutter, small tobacco cutter, smoking -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - TOBACCO CUTTER
... PERSONAL EFFECTS Smoking accessories tobacco cutter A.McMillan Cast ...Cast iron Tobacco Guillotine style cutter with black enamelled handle mounted on a wooden base with name M A Turnbull stamped in black on sides.A.McMillanpersonal effects, smoking accessories, tobacco cutter -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - TOBACCO CUTTER
... PERSONAL EFFECTS Smoking accessories tobacco cutter Cast Iron ...Cast Iron Tobacco cutter mounted on wooden block with black enamelled handle.personal effects, smoking accessories, tobacco cutter -
Orbost & District Historical Society
tobacco cutter, c. mid 19th century
... tobacco-cutter tobacco-smoking... tobacco. tobacco-cutter tobacco-smoking ...Used to cut tobacco leaf or plugs into finer and more useable samples which could then be put into a pipe or made into a cigar or cigarette.Tobacco cutters were important tools for pipe smokers until self-made or manufactured cigarettes began to dominate the tobacco sales market from the 1920s. This item is a link to a previously common means of consuming tobacco.A metal blade cutter set onto a wooden base. The blade is rusty. tobacco-cutter tobacco-smoking -
Orbost & District Historical Society
tobacco cutter, early 20th century
... tobacco-cutter smoking-accessories personal-effects... common means of consuming tobacco. tobacco-cutter smoking ...This McMillan Tobacco Cutter was used to cut plugs of tobacco suitable for pipes.Tobacco cutters were important tools for pipe smokers until self-made or manufactured cigarettes began to dominate the tobacco sales market from the 1920s. This item is a link to a previously common means of consuming tobacco.Large wooden block inset with metal tobacco cutter. It has a metal handle and is painted black.tobacco-cutter smoking-accessories personal-effects -
Anglesea and District Historical Society
Tobacco Cutter, Pre 1920's
Antique cast iron tobacco cutter (almost certainly a McMillan cutter). It is a guillotine style cutter used to cut plugs of tobacco to put into smoking pipes. The cutter is held to a wooden base with screws and has a well worn wooden strker plate. (Originally painted black). May have been used in Anglesea to slice beans.None visible.tobacco cutter -
Clunes Museum
Tool - TOBACCO CUTTER
SMALL CUTTER USED TO SLICE SLIVERS OF TOBACCO OFF A BLOCK OF TOBACCO READY TO USE IN A PIPE OR CIGARETTE.GUILLOTINE MANUFACTURED TO CUT A PLUG OF TOBACCO INTO MANAGEABLE SIZE TO PRESS INTO PIPE OR ROLLED CIGARETTE.local history, personal effects smoking accessories., tools -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Tobacco Cutter
Used to cut wads of tobacco into plugs.Small hand operated tobacco cutter. Metal with wooden base.personal effects, smoking accessories -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Tobacco Cutter
Black metal guillotine type slicer for cutting tobacco from plug.McMillanpersonal effects, smoking accessories -
Clunes Museum
Tool - TOBACCO CUTTER
THIS TOBACCO CUTTER REMAINED ON THE BAR OF THE SWISS MOUNTAIN INN, BLAMPIED; FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS. THE HOTEL WAS OWNED BY THE LACRANCHI FAMILYCAST IRON KNIFE WITH A WOODEN HANDLE IS ATTACHED TO A WOODEN BLOCK FOR THE TOBACCOlocal history, metalcraft, cast iron on wood, smoking accessories -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Tobacco Cutter
... included a cutter with bulk tobacco orders. tobacco cutter smoking ...Tobacco cutters were used to cut solid blocks of tobacco ( plugs) into finer pieces for smoking before the advent of tailormade cigarettes and particularly for pipe smokers. Wholesalers often included a cutter with bulk tobacco orders.Metal tobacco cutter with a detachable blade on a wooden base.tobacco cutter, smoking instrument