Museum number:

APM 25.402

Subcollection:

labels and tobacco wrappers

Title:

brieftabak

Keyword:

smoking men

Description:

Tobacco vignette in letter form with rectangular shape, folded closed with a small red wax seal on the back, central front " ZU FELD UND MEER UND ALLEN ORTEN BIN ICH BEWEHRT ERFUNDEN WORDEN " (in the field and at sea and all other places I am seen as desirable), below it a mirror monogram with "NO" on the left and "10 on the right, framed through leaf work with a sitting smoking man in both bottom corners. Wax stamp reverse side with mirror monogram, with pencil year "1692".

Date:

Period 1730 - 1760


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight3.54 in (9 cm)
Width4.72 in (12 cm)
Thickness0.55 in (1.4 cm)
Characteristics
Materialpaper
Techniqueprinted
Colourcreamy white
Finish inkt, zwart
Traces of use ongeopend
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Acquisition
Year 2016
Comments
Vermoedelijk is dit de enige ongeopende envelop met brieftabak.
Literature
Don Duco, Object van de maand. Amsterdam, 2001. augustus 2017, nr 195. Beknopte bespreking van dit exemplaar.

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