Old Snuff Flyer

Came across this one earlier today. By the look it will be from the 18th century but I’ve not been able to find out any more about the company as yet. I’ll have to do some digging.

@ermtony…is that in your private collection? Or just found archived online?

I reupholster furniture sometimes and I was redoing an old chair . there was an old sack that they had used to put over the springs . from a tobacconist in new York 1870s . it had Indians smoking a pipe and various tobacco jars on it very colo(u)rful and the writing was like that on the f&t tins … I will try and dig it out and take a pic later

@AANYCAARDS it was posted on a local history Facebook page. Too interesting not to repost here. I did some digging. It isn’t as old as I thought. T. Mitchell & Co were active there in the 1830s and 1840s. I found mention in White’s and Piggott’s directories for that period. Sadly 9 Market Place and White Horse Yard are no longer there, destroyed like much of the rest of of the old town during WW2.

sorry for the bad pics