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Subiaco Museum > Records

TOBACCO TIN - 'OLD GOLD'

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Overview

Oblong tin with hinged lid, painted gold and yellow. 'Old Gold' painted in red and gold capitals on lid above a gold seal set at centre. Below that in black is printed the following: 'Ready Rubbed Tobacco. Manufactured by the British-Australasian Tobacco Co. Pty. Ltd. Sydney, Australia. For the Proprietor.' Along lid: '1 oz net when packed.' On lid is scratched in: 'Cash. War Loan Stamps' which clearly shows to which purpose the empty tin was kept.

Historical information

A tobacco tin used in the household of the Chugg family. On the lid is scratched in: Cash. War Loan Stamps' which clearly shows to which purpose the empty tin was kept.

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cwa-org-43-1992.49

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CHUGG Miss A I (Queenie)

Photographed 2023

Smoking And Tobacco

Statement of significance

A tobacco tin used by someone in the Chugg household. The Chuggs were early residents in Subiaco. Simon Chugg, father of Miss A.I. Chugg possibly rolled his own cigarettes, or smoked a pipe.

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