Object number
2022/150/1-3
Description
Lidded box of cigarettes, made from tobacco grown in England. The box lid is inscribed 'Redfields Tobacco' ('Hampshire Cigarettes' on the inside) and each of the 14 cigarettes are inscribed 'Redfields Tobacco'. Inside is a leaflet explaining the history of tobacco growing, for H. Stevens and Co, Tobacco factory, Salisbury. Arthur Brandon was one of the first large scale growers of tobacco in England after the relaxation of the ban in commercial growing in 1910. He grew on land around Church Crookham, North Hampshire and his home Redfields. Cigarettes protected with patterned glassine paper.
Numbering: 1) Box, 2) Cigarettes (14), 3) Leaflet
Physical description
1 lidded box, leaflet and 14 cigarettes: tobacco leaves, paper
Archival history
Museum Object Entry Form - 'Description of object/collection - Collection of items relating to Mr Arthur Brandon's tobacco farm at Church Crookham, Hampshire: Case of tobacco leaf samples, cigarette packet with cigarettes, cigarette box with cigarettes, photographs and scanned archive material.'
Production place
Church Crookham
Production date
1911 - 1937
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