Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Bacon Brothers (Cambridge, England)

Title:

[Label for Bacon Brothers Ye Golden Pride : Old Virginia tobacco].

Published / Created:

[Cambridge], [approximately 1905]

Physical Description:

1 sheet ; 16 x 12 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
HF6161.T6 B35 1905 Box
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

Copyright Status:

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Cigarette label. Text printed in red, blue and gold.

"This tobacco is carefully manufactured from matured Virginia growths & in smoking will be found cool & fragrant."

"This label is issued only by Bacon Bros."

"Estd. 100 years. Bacon's Golden Pride tobacco."

"Weights & measues Act 41 & 42. Vict. Cap 49. Guaranteed half-ounce tobacco (weighed without the paper) when packed at the manufactory. Sold subject to loss by evaporation."

Subject Terms:

Bacon Brothers (Cambridge, England) | Advertising -- Cigarettes. | Cigarettes. | Smoking. | Advertising.

Form/Genre:

Tobacco (material) | Ephemera.