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Nine (9) advertising tobacco ephemera, including tins and wrappers. 1st item: Rectangular Fashion lunch box tobacco tin with one handle reading: Fashion Cut Plug Tobacco, with the image of a fashionable couple in a landscape setting against light yellow ground, front, back, and hinged lid of tin. Images of tobacco wax wrappers, left and right side. 2 3/4" x 1 1/8" IRS tax stamp dated 1901, left side of tin. 4 1/4" H x 7 5/8" W x 5" D. Overall – 6 1/4". 2nd item: Rectangular Boar's Head store counter tobacco tin reading: Boar's Head Tobacco, against yellow ground, front, back, and lid of tin. Images of a boar's head in a cartouche, left and right sides of tin, with lid with c-shaped handle. 5 1/2" H x 8 1/4" W x 5 1/2" D. Overall – 6 1/8" H. 3rd item: Rectangular U.S. Marine lunch box tobacco tin with one handle reading: U.S. Marine Cut Plug, against light grey and blue ground, surface of hinged lid with metal clasp. Image of a sailor smoking a pipe and pointing to a tobacco wax wrapper reading: Smoke or Chew, surrrounded by a nautical themed border, front of tin. Images of ships, left and right sides. 4 5/8" H x 7 1/2" W x 4 1/2" D. Overall – 6 1/2" H. 4th item: Rectangular North Pole tobacco tin reading: North Pole Cut Plug The United States Tob. Co. Richmond, VA., with the image of two polar bears attacking a walrus in an arctic setting against a light yellow ground, front and back of tin. Labeled The Hasker & Marcuse Mf'g Co Rich VA., lower right of left side of tin. IRS tax stamp, surface of oval lid. 5 1/4" H x 6" W x 4" D. 5th item: Rectangular Dixie Queen lunch box tobacco tin with one handle reading Dixie Queen Plug Cut Smoking Tobacco, around the image of a woman against off white, light blue, and orange ground, front and back of tin, with hinged lid. 4 1/2" H x 7 3/4" W x 5 1/8" D. Overall – 6 1/2" H. 6th item: Rectangular Pedro lunch box tobacco tin with one handle reading: Pedro Cut Plug Smoking Tobacco., around the image of a playing card and leaves, front and back of tin, with hinged lid. Images of Native American peace pipes in decorative borders, left and right sides of tin. 4 1/2" H x 7 3/4" W x 5" D. Overall – 6 3/4" H. 7th item: Rectanguar Pastime tobacco tin reading: Pastime Plug Tobacco Manufactured by John Finzer & Bros. Louisville, KY., around a hunting scene with a man and a dog against a red ground, surface of hinged lid with three hook clasps and underside of tin. Image of a man and a horse leaping over a fence in a landscape setting, underside of lid. 4" H x 12 1/2" W x 9 1/4" D. 8th-9th items: Two unopened Dixie Queen tobacco wrappers reading: Dixie Queen Plug Cut, around the image of a woman, one made of cloth, one made of paper. Paper wrapper with unbroken IRS tax stamps dated 1910. Cloth wrapper – 3 3/4" H x 3" W x 1" D. Paper wrapper – 4 1/2" H x 2 1/2" W x 1" D. American, late 19th/early 20th century. Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Areas of rust, dents in varying degrees, surface of tins. 1st item: Areas of loss, scratches, largest 1 1/2", surface of tin. IRS stamp in partial, worn condition. 2nd item: Areas of loss, scratches, largest 3", surface of tin. 3rd item: Areas of loss, scratches, largest 1", surface of tin. 1" area of dampstaining, top left of lid. 4th item: Areas of loss, scratches, largest 2 1/2", surface of tin. Traces of retail sticker, underside of tin. IRS stamp in partial, worn condition. 5th item: Areas of loss, scratches, largest 2", surface of tin. 1/8" gap between lid and side of tin due to bend in metal. 3/4" piece of paper, top left of lid. Traces of retail sticker, underside of tin. 6th item: Areas of loss, scratches, largest 1/2", surface of tin. Areas of dampstaining, largest, 5" x 3", surface of lid. 1/8" gaps between lid and sides of tin due to bends in metal. Handle slightly loose, uneven in mounting. 7th item: Craquelure, areas of loss, largest 2 5/8", surface of image underside of lid. Areas of loss, scratches, largest 4" x 2 1/2", surface of tin. Metal clasps slightly loose. 8th-9th items: Wrappers in unopened condition.