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City of Armadale - History House > Records

CUTTER, TOBACCO - W.A. TYZACK & CO SHEFFIELD

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c. 1867 - 1940

Overview

Wooden base with metal cutting device on top, for cutting tobacco. Metal is black in colour and wood in brown in colour. Wooden base has large rounded corners.

Historical information

Manufactured by W.A. Tyzack & Co of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. The company produced a wide amount of tools and blades. One of the tools they produced were tobacco plug cutters. The tool was used in either stores or in the home to cut tobacco leaf or plugs (bricks of compressed tobacco). They were popular from the 1800s through to the late 1930s.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-AK1975.106

Item type

Personal Effects

Material

Width

203 mm

Height or length

85 mm

Depth

133 mm

Inscriptions and markings

[ W.A.TYZACK&Co / SHEFFIELD ]

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