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Spittoon and Tobacco Cutter1885
Whitney Pier, Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
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This 19th-century TOBACCO CUTTER manufactured by the "Rock City Tobacco Company" and patented on January 20, 1885, has engraved on its arch-shaped blade cover, "King George's Navy Tobacco" .The cutter was used to divide large pieces of tobacco into smaller pieces of "chewing tobacco" using 1 and 2 inch measurements.
Beneath the cutter is a homemade SPITTOON. A spittoon is a container used to store chewing tobacco after it was spit out. Made of a brown crock, the spittoon is lined with a decorative scallop shell pattern and has a square hole where the tobacco "juice" is drained.
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