• Title
  Tobacco tin, after 1903
• Call number
  DR 159
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  After 1903
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  886587
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 tobacco box - tin - 8 x 10 x 2 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  Gold painted container with hinged lid. Lid bears an American revolutionary scene and the trademark: 'Dixson's Yankee Doodle Flake Cut The British Australasian Tobacco Co. Ltd. Sydney, Australia'.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1017360
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  The trademark 'John Sands Sydney' is on one side of lid.
  
  The inscription inside lid reads: 'Dixson's Yankee Doodle Cool and Sweet Smoking. 4=ozs. Nett. The British-Australasian Tobacco Co., Ltd., Sydney, Australia, Manufacturers.'
  
  The base of tin bears the imprint 'Dark'.
• Date note
  
  Dated from the year the Dixson Tobacco Company merged with Cameron Brothers, Melbourne to become the British Australasian Tobacco Co. Ltd.
• Name
  British Australasian Tobacco Co. Ltd.
  Dixson & Sons Limited (tobacco company)
  Cameron Brothers, Melbourne
  
• Topic
  containers & packing equipment
  tobacco
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A passion for collecting: Sir William Dixson - State Library of New South Wales (8 April - 11 August, 2013)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE149576

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