Personal items in a cigar box

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Name/Title

Personal items in a cigar box

Entry/Object ID

2024.04.80

Description

Paperboard "Covered Wagon" brand cigar box containing a collection of personal items: 1. Kaywoodie Whitebriar smoking pipe with white bowl and black handle. Kaywoodie was a pipe offered by Kaufman Brothers & Bondy Company (KBB), first appearing in February of 1919. 2. Small bar of Camay soap in magenta paper wrapper 3. Silver-tone metal shoehorn 4. Boy Scout insignia-embossed leather belt pouch with snap closure that contains a sharpening stone from the Carborundum Company, Niagara Falls, New York. Under the pouch's flap is a 60-cents price sticker from Herpolsheimer's, a department store with locations in Grand Rapids and Michigan City. 5. Black, zippered ditty bag with white plastic Colgate toothbrush and Gillette safety razor. The gold-tone zipper pull is detached.

Cataloged By

Winthers, Sally

Acquisition

Accession

2024.04

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Location

* Untyped Location

Sec 6E Shelf S3

Create Date

August 20, 2024

Update Date

August 26, 2024