Artwork : ArchiveNo00106

Cigarette Card 1923

ContributionForm
Contributor Name	Brian Rains
Contributor Image	Brian_Rains.jpg
Profession
Location	Wymering
Collection Date	13.03.08 12.50pm
Artefact Name	Cigarette Card
Artefact Description	Silk, held in waxed paper envelope. 4 x 2cm On the front of the silk is a printed Albanian flag – printed in red, yellow and black. ‘Kensitas Cigarettes, A Series of 60 National Flags no. 47, Albania’ printed on the front.
Artefact Date	1923
Artefact Stored	In drawer in bedroom
Artefact Form
Artefact Image	cigarette_cards_00106.jpg
Sample Taken	Threads from top left corner
Sample Image
History of Artefact	‘It came from Hong Kong. It was my Great Aunt’s, Morrie Roach. She was in the army and she collected these cards. I have 23 of the set. I think she was a nurse.’
Historian
Previous Owners	Morrie Roach (Great Aunt). Passed to Kevin Roach in 1962 (son in law of Brian).
Special Memories	‘I found it when my dad died. We’ve talked about the time it came from. It’s part of the family I didn’t know a great deal about.’ ‘It is a good thing to talk about. The story behind it reminds me of my own service in the Royal Marines, I served in Singapore and Malaysia.’
Artwork Image	00106_sml_copy.jpg

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