Friday, March 29, 2019

Stuff To Do

Stuff to do.

1.  Be happy
2.  Be true to me
3.  Be kind
4.  Catch up with web site
5.  Catch up with etsy
6.  Catch up with blog

Number one, two and three are ongoing.  Number four and five are too far gone to attempt tonight.  Number 6 seems possible.  Here goes.

It's a snuff bottle from the sixties and here are a few details.
A vintage snuff bottle by Levi Garrett & Sons.  As good as it gets condition.  No cracks. No nips.  No problems. Just one glass bottle.  No label or cork.  Those are long gone.  As to the dots on the bottom of the bottles.  I know for a fact that that is the strength of the snuff.  I know because my Grandma dipped the nasty stuff.  And she preferred the three dot bottom Levi Garrett brand from a bottles just like this.  Good for decorators.  For Macramé inserts.  For plant rooters. For vases. For remembering Grandma.

Here is a little history.
In 1782 John Garrett, a Revolutionary War soldier, built several mills in Delaware.  Levi Garrett inherited the snuff mill from his father and after having two sons Levi renamed the mill Levi Garrett and Sons.  This is where the name of dipping snuff derives.  One son, George H Garrett, dropped out of the snuff business, while the other son, William E. Garrett, stuck it out.  The William E Garrett Company is the origin of the name of the scotch and sweet snuff.  Later the business became William E. Garrett and Sons.  In 1870 Scotch Snuff is trademarked and became one of the first ten tradmarks in US history.  And now it is the oldest trademark still in use in the US.  After the death of Willam E. Garrett and William Garrett Jr., the remaining brother Walter sold the snuff mill to three of his employees for one dollar and ended the Garrett name in ownership. In the late 1800’s James “Buck” Dude bought up every tobacco producer in the US, including Garrett Snuff, and eventually became the American Tobacco Company.  In 1907 Teddy Rosevelt broke up that monopoly,  and the American Snuff Company was born.  Moving to Memphis in 1912 and buying up a few more small producers the company changed its name to Conwood Company, L.P. in 1966.  In 1975 Levi Garrett chewing tobacco was introduced as a tribute. Garrett snuff is one of the oldest products still produced in the US.

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